Well, they could've taken over Alaska that way.
Sarah Barracuda!
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CNN's front page right now has the headline "GOP Identity Crisis", with a big picture of Palin giving her vapid wave to a crowd.
It's astounding to me that people still think she could be the future of the party, and are talking about her for 2012. If she's not on the ticket, I don't necessarily think McCain wins, but it's a hell of a lot closer, especially when you consider the # of states decided by 1-2%. She was like an anchor on that ticket.
Here's hoping the Palin faction wins out on how the future GOP is "defined." As much as I like a strong 2-party system & formidable opposition to keep the Dems honest, it's also a lot of fun to watch the idiots who elected Bush twice continue to flail around.
It's astounding to me that people still think she could be the future of the party, and are talking about her for 2012. If she's not on the ticket, I don't necessarily think McCain wins, but it's a hell of a lot closer, especially when you consider the # of states decided by 1-2%. She was like an anchor on that ticket.
Here's hoping the Palin faction wins out on how the future GOP is "defined." As much as I like a strong 2-party system & formidable opposition to keep the Dems honest, it's also a lot of fun to watch the idiots who elected Bush twice continue to flail around.
Can we put aside being a professional woman and how they would feel, or a feminist (a different thing) and what they might say…just as a woman. Is it me? As a woman, I would get so red faced if a man I wasn’t involved with, ever walked in on me as I had just come out of shower and was in a towel. Do the women the rest of you know answer their doors like this as a matter of course, as Damo says? It reminds me of when I was a kid, I was very young and my mom had bought a yellow bikini. I’m sure it was adorable, but I will never forget I was at my aunt’s house and I refused to come out of the bathroom in it. My mother kept saying, come on, why not? Finally my dad said, do you feel shy? And I nodded. And he gave me a shirt to put over it, and my mom bought me a different bathing suit the next week. So maybe it is me. But even in a non-professional situation (professionally forget it, there is no argument, you simply do not do that), I would feel so naked and I would know what the man was thinking, and I just wouldn’t put myself in that situation. You save that for your guy. I don’t think I’m that much of a prude. I think nothing of being undressed in front of girlfriends, or at the gym locker room. But sorry, wet and wrapped in a towel in front of a man – that’s sexual.
i agree on every point.
You're not off on this; the idea of Obama or Bill Clinton walking around in a towel in front of female staffers is ridiculous.
The thing is, it only reinforces the way Palin conducted herself throughout the campaign. This is someone who winked at the camera in a national debate...
The thing is, it only reinforces the way Palin conducted herself throughout the campaign. This is someone who winked at the camera in a national debate...
I just get so amazed sometimes. Damo is acting as if women are always answering doors in wet towels to men? And cawacko too. Maybe I am weird, but I’m not sorry if that’s the case. I don’t want to be parading around like that, thanks. Professionally, as you point out onceler, if a man did it, it’d be considered harassment. It’d be a big deal.
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I don't know that I believe it is NECESSARILY sexual, BUT it is wholly inappropriate. No male candidate in his right mind would throw a towel around his waist and open the door for two females he has a professional relationship with. That is a natural "danger danger" situation. It is no less so for a woman. I can't imagine a male or female upper management of Qwest or Microsoft opening the door to their hotel room wrapped only in a towel for a co-worker they were not in an intimate relationship with. Wouldn't happen. No way no how.
Ok, thanks. I swear Soc, if I only listened to guys like Damo and Cawacko I would really start to think “gosh, maybe I am damaged?” lol
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Ok, not having read the story, I was under the impression that the staffers were already in her hotel room and she walked out of the bathroom in a towel.
She answered the door in a towel? Prime way to get a pic sliding around the internet.
She answered the door in a towel? Prime way to get a pic sliding around the internet.
I'm not sure which way it went. The radio reported this morning that she was in a robe. I would be uncomfortable with people coming into my hotel room while I was showering to begin with.
They'll try to throw her under the bus, but a lot of people staked their reputations on her and, truthfully, the base was more excited about her than about McCain. Palin is too big to fail. There will be some serious in-fighting and back-biting but she isn't going anywhere.
Can't remember who, but someone on one of those cable panels noted that McDonald's employees have to go through more interviews than Palin had...
I totally agree, but, even though it’s outrageous they didn’t vet her, and I believe, nearly treasonous they went ahead with her once they realized what they had on their hands… I can kinda see just assuming that a governor knew some shit you know? I doubt you could find another governor in this country with the kind of knowledge base this woman had. I’ll tell you, to me, this says a lot about Alaska. Is it any wonder that one corrupt official after the other comes out of that place? Let’s face it – the state is a joke.
Well, Linda Green, the Republican president of the Alaskan state legislature, said “she’s not qualified to be governor, how can she be VP?” this was dismissed by republicans as more proof of Palin’s “maverickness”, but I think we can all see now that Green knew what she was saying.
I agree with all of that, however, if you put “country first”…you had a moral obligation to get rid of her and take the consequences, in my opinion.
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