A short while back, Los Angeles Times columnist Meghan Daum suggested, only half-jokingly, that actress Angelina Jolie's "entire Oscar-winning, serial-adopting, Brad Pitt-snagging, plane-piloting, unattainably hot-looking existence makes women around the world feel hopelessly inadequate and therefore unhappy." Perhaps Sarah Palin is the Angelina Jolie of the political world.
In her opponents' minds, Palin's made all the wrong choices, and cannot, they insist, be very bright. Yet she's happy and successful. She is an anomaly that invalidates their worldview, and for that, they attempt to immiserate her — regardless of whether she wishes to run for national office again.
Geraghty, July 2nd 2009:
There's no clear sense of her future plans; the near-daily denunciation seems to be just in case she decides to run for national office, a far-from-certain event that would occur, at the earliest, three and a half years from now.July 3rd 2009:
Sarah Palin will not seek re-election next year, fueling speculation that she will make a 2012 presidential bid.And Jonah is all about timing.
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Huh.
ReplyDeleteAnd here I thought it was she was a congenitally stupid, provincial, bigoted hillbilly who got frighteningly close to the levers of power.
And all the while, it turns out I'm just a jealous asshole.
Who knew?
I seek the immiseration of Sarah Palin solely because she rates for Jerry.
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I take it that "immiserate" is synonymous with the verb "pie".
ReplyDeleteI am also seeking the immiseration of another Kiwi and lawnguylander.
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"There's no clear sense of her future plans..."
ReplyDeleteHeh, indeed.
The rotating eyebrows fit over her actual eyebrows pretty nicely.
ReplyDeleteI like the picture that M. Bouffant had up.
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That one was good. I think this is a little more rough, jowly, and drag-queeny.
ReplyDeleteMaybe a build-a-face would be good.
Is that the same as a police Identakit reconstruction?
ReplyDelete'Dante' says Captcha-word, hinting that I should link to the Botticelli illustrations of Inferno.
"Immiseration" is clearly a spelling mistake. The intended accusation is that you were all wishing for Sarah Palin to undergo gender reassignment -- you were seeking her immisteration.
ReplyDeleteHer e-misteration is happening up there right now!
ReplyDeleteGet with the moustachios!
I think I'm going to have to reprise the Mark Sanford mystery landscape soon.
ReplyDeleteSome of us believe that Sarah Palin is too large a personality for real life, and instead she should be starring in a Broadway musical. We seek her Les-Miseration.
ReplyDeleteI'll take a misseration.
ReplyDeleteWonkette is rife with theories.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure we'll get to the bottom of this soon. Also.
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She probably just got spiked with some decent Angels tweak and then decided to call the whole thang off, before she went back to the sweatlodge for the gangbang.
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Maybe there is some sort of form she has to fill out each year e.g. "Please state in 24 words or less why you should stay the Governor of this here state,eh" and she just forgot. Had a snow machine race to look at or interviews for the role of Governors Son-in-law , she's busy,you know.
ReplyDeleteHad a snow machine race
ReplyDeleteYou can race snow machines?!
Rumour has it that Another Kiwi has been watching too many episodes of Mythbusters.
You can race snow machines?!
ReplyDeleteShe can beat 'em too, eventually. Got endurance, doncha know.
Or maybe, just maybe Miss Sarah Klondike met.......the Alpha Wolf of her dreams.
ReplyDeleteAi-eeeeeeee
Sowwy, RB. Got carried away. Northern gals in pelts have that effect on me.
ReplyDeletePerhaps Sarah Palin is the Angelina Jolie of the political world.
ReplyDeleteOkay, so who's the Megan Fox of the political world? Whenever I go to the supermarket, the important periodicals there tell me Jolie can't fucking stand her.
You can race snow machines?
ReplyDelete"Snow machine" is whut they calls them up there. You say "Snowmobiles" and they knows you is a cissy.
Beels, or Beeler's, mutha-f'er.
ReplyDeleteApart from the political BS, Miss Palin's a hottie really--and to be honest, she has less blood on her paws than say a Hillary or Feinslime. And I wager a rather superior screw. She looks a bit porno-y.
"A snowmobile, also known in some places as a snowmachine"
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I have no emotional attachment to the nomenclature of transportation methods in the frozen North I am trying to save the Good Herr Doktor Bimmler from a faux pas when next he carries out some twin studies up there.
Okay, so who's the Megan Fox of the political world?
ReplyDeletePleeeze let there be a Megan Fox of the political world.
Next you will be telling me that motorboats are called "water machines".
ReplyDeletethey knows you is a cissy
If they say it to my face I will immiserate them.
Not many people know that the mysterious S-Gerät in "Gravity's Rainbow" is actually a snowmobile or Schneegerät.
ReplyDeleteSnowride, take it easy.
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ReplyDeletethe Soviets had some cool Schneegeraet as well. In fact they beat the nazis to the punch, I believe.
Capn Pynchon's not my fave literary cartoonist, but I suspect he'd have an interesting take on Frau Palin ....Oedipa Maas of the North.....
Snowride, take it easy.
ReplyDeleteI'm in the nude.
I rate for Fogheadgear. I do not rate for the American Idol duet.
ReplyDeleteHyphenated J, thou art the imposter! (take a gander at visitors for one).
ReplyDeleteContingencies has been in this business for years.
I rate for J—.
ReplyDeleteJ—'s hyphen is so powerful his entire deleted blog is contained within it.
ReplyDeleteOh, the blog's not deleted. My profile just doesn't link to it 'cause it ain't got shit.
ReplyDeleteYou're not trying to lure me into this blogging thing, are you? I see you snagged thunder.
Thunder's busy leading a productive life rating for Tom. I'm like Obi-Wan or something, before the lightsaber chopping.
ReplyDeleteLinks altered, SO THERE.
ReplyDeleteI rate for Righteous Bubba, not the New York Times.
ReplyDeleteYou bastard. Can't leave that alone.
ReplyDeleteI see you snagged thunder.
ReplyDeleteWho thundered snag?
So I look at L or RB and see a NYT thingo about First Lady hairstyles and I think "heh heh good luck with that, not my oeuvre". Then, because it is Sunday, I go to see James Walcott and he is gassing about the hairstyles bit AS WELL!
ReplyDeleteUs rubes on the edge of the world can see through the cunning double life you lead RB or should I say JW!!??!!