"She’s a great dame. People are fascinated by her because the Left hate her. I think the Left hate her — mostly women on the Left hate her — because to me from outside in it appears that she has a great sex life, all right? I think she has non-neurotic sex with that Todd Palin guy. … I think that snow mobile looks like mechanized foreplay to me and that’s why people are fascinated."
Male pundits have been unbelievably fascinated with Palin and her sex life throughout this entire campaign. It's over. Your boner-inducing VP candidate lost, move on. Throughout the campaign, I heard several of those pundits consistently complimenting her good looks, saying they wanted her to be lying next to them in bed, claiming that women who don't get behind her are just jealous of the fact that so many men want to get behind her and "drill, baby drill!" Here's a secret, fellas. If you want women to stop believing you only think with your dicks...stop thinking with only your dicks!
Why can't we say, "no way in hell am I supporting her" because of her crazy-ass beliefs? Her love of teaching creationism? Her wildly anti-choice stance? Her biblical fundamentalism? Those were a few of my reasons for not supporting her. Not because she's pretty. Not because I think she has more sex than I do. Not because I wish I had her life. Because I think her beliefs and the possibility of her having some power to translate her beliefs into public policy would have been dangerous and destructive.
The one (and just about the only) thing I liked about Palin is the fact that I think she scares the piss out of a lot of conservative men. They cling to the idea that she's a maverick and not afraid to take on big oil and not afraid to do this and that but every time I turn around, some douchebaggy pundit has done his best to trivialize those things and reduce her to a hole (while making sure to comment on just how fuckable she is). I don't believe the Republican party will ever be responsible for electing a female president because I don't believe they can put aside their power and control issues long enough to let it happen. Hell, it's already quite obvious the right's love affair with feminism is over since they were quick as bunnies to pounce on Palin and promptly blame her for McCain's loss:
I don't care about Sarah Palin's sex life. I wouldn't have cared if Bill Clinton fucked every intern and staffer in the White House, provided they were of legal age and mentally capable of saying, "sure, let's fuck." I don't care if the day he announced our going into Iraq, George gave it to Laura like it was the last time they would ever go at it. And I don't care if shooting moose gets Palin hot and bothered enough to come home, throw a collar on Todd, and lead him around the bedroom on a leash.
It just. doesn't. matter.
Break free from that sexual repression of yours, Dennis, and you may find that you won't always feel the need to obsess about others' sex lives. It feels good, I promise.
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