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Rich Lowry’s in Love
Saturday, October 4th, 2008National Review’s editor on Sarah Palin:
I’m sure I’m not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, “Hey, I think she just winked at me.” And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America.
I’m less of a Palin-phobe than many of the people who comment here in that I don’t regard her as especially worse than the other three runners in the race. I’m not particularly horrified that voters like her and want to defend her capabilities and positions. And I am not shocked that her attractiveness helps her in the estimation of those who are just hanging out looking for somebody to vote for.
Each time some guy gushes about her like that though, I think about the sort of reaction that would greet any woman commenting similarly about a male candidate — nevermind large numbers of female pundits vying with each other to see who could coo the prettiest about his charms.
People would rightly think such women had lost their minds. Because they would have. And so have these men like Lowry. It’s incredible the way they keep leaping up to make sure everyone knows it.
“it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing”
Doesn’t take much to get this guy off. He probably gets starburts in his pants any time a woman who makes eye contact with him.
Each time some guy gushes about her like that though, I think about the sort of reaction that would greet any woman commenting similarly about a male candidate — nevermind large numbers of female pundits vying with each other to see who could coo the prettiest about his charms.
I dunno–didn’t Peggy Noonan have a more or less infamous column about how Bush’s flight suit electrified her panties?
And if I am to believe the emails I have received, Anna Kornakouva loves me too.
I dunno, but you’re the one remembering one as infamous. Lowry is simply joining a chorus of swooning voices sighing with the rapturous throngs at this point — similar, yeah, to the way Obama’s legions are declaimed against for touting him.
And sure, hey, great communication and all. Connecting with, soothing and heartening the common people, with a little extra kick — ‘scuse me, wink — thrown in. Maybe the celebration of this sort of thing is by popular acclaim at the heart of presidential politics.
In fact, looking at Lowry’s whole quip — I hadn’t before — I see that his emphasis is on her knack — which he compares to Bill O’Reilly’s — for “projecting through the screen.” I guess it’s her projected effect on the wandering attentions of the more sportive, less philosophically inclined voters that’s got him all agog.
At least he didn’t report a thrill up his leg.
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.
I’d do her (with earplugs) but I wouldn’t vote for her.
I think she should have stayed on Battlestar: Galactica where she belonged.
Holy crap! Does this mean Jenna Jameson wants my junk?
Hopefully they’ll make a Sarah Palin Real Doll for Lowry and his ilk:
http://www.realdoll.com/
I await the forthcoming mix tape from Mr. Lowry.