Palin: A Lust Story

This post is an excuse to show the pictures from a recent event where Sarah Palin had to resort to writing notes on her hand in a speech where she mocked President Obama for using a tele-prompter - presumably she prefers it old skool.

What could these notes possibly say? Must be pretty hard to remember stuff if she had to right them down on her hand.

No. In fact you can see she wrote three six words. "Energy" "Tax Cut" and "Lift American Spirits". It is surprising she didn't right down the word "Republican" lest she forgets everything she claims to stand for.

I wonder with Palin whether or not this is a folksy ploy to make her seem down to earth and homely. I hope that someone who has appeared on a Presidential ticket didn't need to write the basic tenants of their political reason d'être to know what on earth they are doing on that stage.

So either she's cynical or an idiot. I don't know which is worse. But I do know this will not do an ounce of harm to her with the base of the Republican Party.

So we come back to September 2008 and we're asking the question, "What makes Sarah Palin attractive to the base GOP"

I am drawn to conclude now something I didn't want to conclude back then - she's hot.

The Republicans lust after her image as a sexy George W Bush minus the intellect.

This has the potential to be extremely sexist and an insult to every successful woman in politics and beyond, but wait, I feel confident my theory can be tested.

If Palin doesn't run in 2012 she will not be a viable candidate ever again due to the fact her looks will fade.

Even is she runs this time round the campaign will age her enough that by the early primaries she won't be looking like she did in 2008. Barack Obama's own grey hairs are testament to the fact that campaigns take their toll physically. In 2008 Palin only got a few months of it - by contrast Mike Hucakbee and Mitt Romey probably put in a great deal more hours in their Republican Primary battles - if she runs like she'll need to run then her image as a glamour politician will begin to crumble.

If Palin loses her looks but keeps her following then I'll be more than prepared to say I was wrong - and while I hope that is the case I am always disappointed when I hope the American hard right will show a bit of decency.