It was so sparkling, it was mesmerizing

So yeah, maybe we shouldn't be mocking Lowery, but can't we laugh a little? I mean come on:

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. This is a quality that can't be learned; it's either something you have or you don't, and man, she's got it.

And they call us Kool-Aid drinkers...

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James October 5, 2008 12:31 PM

A man who clearly doesn't understand the subconscious - he's tried to hide his real feelings and yet it's bursted onto the screen, as it probably did his keyboard.

The only person more humiliated right now than him is his wife. And if he's not married now, the odds he will be have just jumped significantly.

Couldn't happen to a nicer scumbag, and he can't complain about it - if he thinks waterboarding is fine, what's this in comparison.

I fear for my country October 5, 2008 12:38 PM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/04/tina-fey-as-sarah-palin-i_n_131964.html

Hicks October 5, 2008 12:38 PM

Andrew also has a letter written to him by a reader that reflects exactly my opinion about Lowry's body-lick of Palin. (I hope it is appropriate to post the letter from Andrew's column.) If not, please delete. She said:

In reaction to Rich Lowry, I'm sure I'm not the only woman who, upon reading his words, sat up a little straighter and said, "Is he kidding? Is he goddamn kidding me?" Is this the kind of reaction the women in this country should want men to have to the possible first female Vice Presidential candidate in history? Holy hell.

I thought Palin's performance at the debate was downright embarrassing and on top of that I have to read this clown's blog, stating more or less that Palin gave him an erection? Little starbursts my ass. Here's what I thought when Palin "dropped" that first wink at us: "Did she just wink at us like she was America's cocktail waitress?" Rich Lowry is on the verge of slapping Sarah Palin on the ass and asking her for another of those fantastic whiskey sours.

If a man smarmily winked to the camera at an election year debate, he would be rightfully be eviscerated. Thing is, Gov. Palin is not so naive as to think that her behavior doesn't elicit this kind of reaction. She knows. That she knows and thinks it's acceptable in the political arena is disturbing.

Deborah October 5, 2008 1:25 PM

On the contrary, every remotely political blog should have a link to that post. Any future profile of Lowry will now lead with that immortal paragraph. All such blogs will feature mocking of both her winking and its effect on the susceptible, and the topic deserves a designated thread.

I don't even have a very dirty mind, and yet immediately pictured more than his backbone straightening. Thanks, Lowry. Another guy who's convinced that the stripper really, really likes him.

For every already-smitten Republican male won by those winks, a woman was lost.

frankie d October 5, 2008 1:47 PM

he just revealed one of the dirty little secrets of palin's appeal with white males.
she plugs right into some psycho/sexual/political fantasy.
that is why you see support among men outstripping her support among women.
just about every woman has known a snake of a woman like palin, and for most women, the memory is not a pleasant one.

Deborah October 5, 2008 2:27 PM

@frankie d: I find the expression "Dick Cheney in f-me heels" covers it.

frankie d October 5, 2008 3:52 PM

deborah,

yikes! LOL!!!!
unfortunately, i think that is an all-too accurate description of the truly complex, convoluted and tortured feelings most of those guys have about both of them.

Lemar Mundane October 5, 2008 9:09 PM

Folks

As I have stated in other threads, McCain functionally married a stripper in choosing Palin. Lowry is one of the fools who admires McCain (probably thinks McCain is an alpha male) for doing this. Lowry does not notice that McCain has no credibility left, McCain is even more irritable, and his campaign effectively ended when he had a stripper backing him up on the economy (instead of the "woman from a good family", Mitt Romney). McCain won't even let his new "wife" meet the parents (aka, a press conference with those evil follow-up questions).

BTW, does McCain have to show up to the next debate with a bunch of cold sores around his mouth for my analogy to catch on? ;-)

Thomas R October 6, 2008 5:51 AM

I was surprised by the winking, but I just took it as her saying she was enjoying herself. I wouldn't be surprised if Kenny or Reagan winked at some point or other.

What I found a bit odd was the line about "hungering for oil" and "drill baby drill." Although Michael Steele has used basically the same lines I did feel it might be a bit of "hey guys a vote for me is a vote for four years of me saying 'hunger' and 'drill baby'", but possibly I'm reading things into it.

MattinPA October 7, 2008 7:56 AM

I think this shows the flip side of macho posturing about war, waterboarding, etc. I don't know Mr. Lowry personally and can't look inside him, no matter how determined he seems to make me look, but this shows a capacity for fantasy ("I think she just winked at me") that would take dominion everywhere. It's a pencil-neck geek thing, imagining yourself a hero in sex and war, except they're actually sending real people to war over it. Limitlessly contemptible.

And I still can't believe, days later, that he pressed the "save" button on that. This will stand forever in the annals of douchery.