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“Lipstick on a Pig”
Posted by Duncan on September 9th, 2008
Everyone is saying, “Calm down. Let Obama have his insult. Don’t address the blatantly childish attack from The One™. If you give it the attention, it’ll make Palin look like a shrill, excitable little girl.” True. I can see that side. It is probably a good idea for the McCain/Palin camp not to confront Obama directly on this one, let the blogs and media hash it out for them, as Obama lets them do for him.
And the Obama camp is trying the plausible deniability route with the “its just a saying.” Well, Brian over at Six Meat Buffet has an EXCELLENT response to that meme.
What? You’ve never heard of “going ape” over something before? It’s an old expression. Not unlike putting lipstick on a pig or wrapping stinky, old fish in a newspaper.
For crying out loud – it’s just an idiom! Don’t read more into it than I’m saying folks. That’s all I’m saying. Don’t go crazy. *ahem* Exercising some restraint is what I’m trying to convey.
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My, my – what a difference a few points in the polls makes. Thank God the era of Karl Rove’s dirty politics is over. Two weeks ago, no one could have told you who Sarah Palin was. Today they could tell you that she’s the bad mothering, wolf-killing, land raping, earmark taking, book baking, Down syndrome baby-making, pig in lipstick who smells like old fish.
Change – can’t you feel it in the air?
Indeed.
(Wizbang also has a good analysis of this.)
September 10th, 2008 at 8:39 am
Someone has a problem with the expression “going ape”?
Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle!
:retard:
September 10th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Yes, I think this was a preplanned “wink-wink” coded reference to Gov. Palin’s comment at the RNC, as evidenced by the crowd’s response.
However, now that the accusation has been publicized, what damage is going to ensue has been done. It’s past time to move on.
The McCain campaign is going off the rails if they drag out this discussion, and especially if they keep trying to extract an apology from the McCain camp. This will only destroy the momentum of the McCain campaign as the mavericks for change if the public see them just engaging in the same ol’ “gotcha” tactics the the Obamabots have been employing. The campaign’s lift is coming from the image that they’re going to do things differently.
First, Gov. Palin has been doing quite well handling all the attrocious slurs and slanders that have been slung at here; she’s been standing up for herself and hasn’t demanded any apologies. So why should the McCain supporters step in to “protect” here against such a relatively minor transgression?
When the men protest, this makes Sarah out to be a weak women in need of men to rescue her; when the women protest, that protrays her as a victim, again undercutting Sarah. Leave it entirely up to Sarah whether to call out the Obama campaign or let things drop.
Furthermore, this outcry is just an echo of the dispicable “politics of outrage” that the Democrats on the left have perfected for decades. The Republicans shouldn’t compete on this quickstand with the experts; they’re just going to embarass themselves, look silly, and destroy their reputation. Indeed, the Obama campaign has already made several effective counterpuches.
So my advice to the RNC is to drop that video camera and step away. Stop digging. Leave “outrage politics” to the Democrats.
September 10th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Exactly CT. Exactly. I know the McCain Campaign released an internet ad, but they need to just let this thing go now lest they go down the “outrage politics” you so eloquently described. That will not bode well…