I got an e-mail from my Dad this morning that makes me wonder about the national political dance we're doing this election season.
I won't attach the actual e-mail to this entry, but let me give you the general idea...
If you elect this:
Congressional head shot of Barack Obama
You get this:
Congressional head shot of Joe Biden
If you elect this:
Congressional head shot of John McCain
You get this:
Candid photo of Sarah Palin next to the kitchen counter bar in someone's home wearing a Mariah Carey-length leather miniskirt, silk blouse with 3 buttons open, and platform stiletto heels.
Now granted, my Dad sent me this as a joke... but I don't think that it's the kind of thing that the Republican National Committee is exactly discouraging either (see my previous mention of Vice President I'd Like to F-bomb (VPILF) buttons.) The implicit assumption here is that sex sells, and that parts of the Republican "base" are buying. And because it's the Republicans running a woman, no one will object... because hey, a hot moose-hunting hockey Mom can take a little sexist joke now again, right? Boys will be boys, after all, if they are Republicans. Democrats are different; they get called sexist if they even attempt to criticize her record.
Perhaps they should cut out the middleman and just re-use my old idea from the California Recall Election in 2003: Anna Kournikova for Vice President! When Stealing An Election, Looking Good Is The Best Revenge!
Update: Well, it looks like the particular photo of Sarah Palin in the e-mail is a product of Photoshop. Mrs. Geek spotted it right away. A little searching around reveals that there is a lot of interest in naked pics of the Alaska governor... as well as pics better left unmentioned.
said drgeek
on 2008-09-10 at 1:18 p.m.
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