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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-30-08 09:05 AM Original message |
If Palin were a male candidate -- by Carl Hiaasen |
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billyoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-30-08 09:06 AM Response to Original message |
1. She'd be Spiro Agnew instead of Spiro Igloo. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-30-08 09:12 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. True -- but Agnew was never sequestered and protected the way she is. n/t |
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nxylas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-30-08 09:22 AM Response to Reply #1 |
8. Actually, she'd be Ron Burgundy |
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LibraLiz1973 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-30-08 09:31 AM Response to Reply #8 |
15. Brick |
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nxylas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-30-08 09:37 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Thanks |
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billyoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-30-08 09:45 AM Response to Reply #8 |
18. No, no, wait for it... |
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Zuiderelle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-30-08 09:07 AM Response to Original message |
2. I disagree with the premise that all that would be asked if she were not female. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-30-08 09:11 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. But he wouldn't dare try to protect her that way if she were a male. |
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Zuiderelle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-30-08 09:19 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. My point is that it's McCain doing this, it's not her being a female doing it. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-30-08 09:22 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Of course. And that is also a point that Hiaasen made in his article. n/t |
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Zuiderelle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-30-08 09:25 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. It wasn't apparent from what you quoted in the OP. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-30-08 09:41 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. You're right. But I was running into the 4 paragraph limit. n/t |
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apnu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-30-08 10:10 AM Response to Reply #2 |
22. This is the way of the GOP and its supporters. |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-30-08 09:14 AM Response to Original message |
5. Imagine if Palin were Black and had a pregnant teenage daughter |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-30-08 09:23 AM Response to Reply #5 |
11. I've thought that from the very beginning. n/t |
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polichick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-30-08 09:16 AM Response to Original message |
6. If Palin were a male, he wouldn't have given McIdiot his first boner in decades... |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-30-08 09:23 AM Response to Reply #6 |
12. How do you know? n/t |
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polichick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-30-08 09:26 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Well, unless... |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-30-08 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
9. she wouldn't 'clean up washington' she would 'clean up IN washington' |
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apnu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-30-08 09:58 AM Response to Original message |
19. LOL I love Carl Hiaasen's satire. (nt) |
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dapper (755 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-30-08 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
20. She would be Dan Quail, Qwhale, quale....err |
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dapper (755 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-30-08 08:08 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. Keith O |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-30-08 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
21. Hiaasen always writes really strong, resourceful, and very savvy women characters; they are always |
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