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Well bless your little heart!

By Chuck Ansbacher

Friday October 3, 2008

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At least three times last night, Sarah Palin, the adorable, preposterous vice-presidential candidate, winked at the audience. Had a male candidate with a similar reputation for attractive vapidity made such a brazen attempt to flirt his way into the good graces of the voting public, it would have universally noted, discussed and mocked. Palin, however, has single-handedly so lowered the standards both for female candidates and American political discourse that, with her newfound ability to speak in more-or-less full sentences, she is now deemed to have performed acceptably last night.

Michelle Goldberg (one of my girl-crushes) wrote a great piece in the Guardian about how Palin is really setting the women’s movement back by her flirtatious relationship with the American people. A must read.