Posted on 10/24/2008 6:46:44 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla
My husband called it first. Then, a brilliant 75-year-old scholar and raconteur confessed to me over wine: "I'm sexually attracted to her. I don't care that she knows nothing."
Finally, writer Robert Draper closed the file on the Sarah Palin mystery with a devastating article in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine: "The Making (and Remaking) of McCain."
McCain didn't know her. He didn't vet her. His campaign team had barely an impression.
. . . . .
As my husband observed early on, McCain the mortal couldn't mind having an attractive woman all but singing arias to his greatness. Cameras frequently capture McCain beaming like a gold-starred schoolboy while Palin tells crowds that he is "exactly the kind of man I want as commander in chief." This, notes Draper, "seemed to confer not only valor but virility on a 72-year-old politician who only weeks ago barely registered with the party faithful."
It is entirely possible that no one could have beaten the political force known as Barack Obama -- under any circumstances. And though it isn't over yet, it seems clear that McCain made a tragic, if familiar, error under that sycamore tree. Will he join the pantheon of men who, intoxicated by a woman's power, made the wrong call?
Had Antony not fallen for Cleopatra, Octavian might not have captured the Roman Empire. Had Bill resisted Monica, Al Gore may have become president, and Hillary might be today's Democratic nominee.
If McCain, rightful heir to the presidency, loses to Obama, history undoubtedly will note that he was defeated at least in part by his own besotted impulse to discount the future. If he wins, he must be credited with having correctly calculated nature's power to befuddle.
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I dunno...I liked the ignorant slut comment :^)
The really strange thing that occurs to me is this. With no vetting that this Parker broad wants to admit to, our Vice-Presidential nominee still has more executive experience, more global understanding, and more innate intelligence than Barack Obama does.
Where’s Parker’s complaints about the vetting that obviously didn’t take place with him?
Another irrelevant elitist columnist who won't enter into debate over her words but will appear in other venues to receive praise from other propagandists.
Well Kathleen, all that bile and hate isn’t attractive at all.
I’m not reading anymore of your screeds. It damages my soul.
I think with this one, her buddies on the DC Conservative circuit will be sending her off the plank. For embarassing them, if nothing else.
“There is nothing more pathetic than a jealous woman with the emotional maturity of a middle school JV cheerleader.”
Yep, just like crabs in a bushel if one tries to climb up the rest will will pull it back down.
As for not vetting Palin, Ms (B)arker, She’s a GOVERNOR you dunce. You don’t think anybody ever heard of her? Of that’s right, you think Alaska is some frontier wild west tundra were everyone chews blubber and are stupid. GFY.
Black female comes to black male’s aid in a rage.
What else can it be?
To a train buff like me B&O stands for Baltimore and Ohio.
As an audio enthusiast like me it stands for Bang and Olufsen.
What does the rest mean? :)
(I know, I'm just being a B&o@d)
You could be right. The left is probably tired of her already: an ageing, not real attractive woman who’s gone shrieking bats isn’t going to win Obama any votes. And a woman who isn’t ornamental AND who won’t shut up is no fun at cocktail parties.
YOU NAILED IT! YOU NAILED IT! YOU NAILED IT!
On the contrary, K. Parker has transformed herself into that most valuable media commodity, someone who can pretend to be a “disillusioned conservative” — she will be paraded across talk shows for years if she plays it right and parlays this momentary celebrity for attack Governor Palin into a more lasting career attacking all sorts of conservatives.
She will have lucrative media offers and plenty of opportunities, don’t worry about her. The rewards for betrayal are high when we’re talking about someone so useful to the left.
Kathleen Parker isn’t black. Maybe you’re thinking of Suzanne Fields, who is also published on Townhall.com and is quite liberal by FR standards.
K. Parker is White.
Mrs Catty is EXTREMELY jealous because her husband hinted that he would like to do some “nailing”, and not on Kathleen darling.
Wonder what her hubby really had to say that sent Katie offfff the edge? Funny how she took the words of a wine induced 75 year old (even if she sees him to be brilliant) as foundation for writing a vanity against McCain.
Poor Ms. Parker got herself left out in the cold and none of those glass slippers fit her feet anymore. I would love to see pictures of the event she describes when her brilliant scholar turn his back on her.
I don't care how strong a woman is, when a man notices another woman as attractive, most women fall into the reptilian part of their brain and go on full attack. It isn't about what she thinks, her experience, etc. Its simply the fact that other men find Sarah sexually attractive, and the oh so familiar, 'why not me?' issue. It doesn't matter how much in common their base, core philosophy is. It doesn't matter how much in common their ideology is. And it doesn't matter how much in common their politics may be. Because when you can't attack those things, you go after the person- the gender, and most certainly, the attractiveness.
It is jealousy in its most raw, primal form. And its too bad that 'sisterhood' ends up taking a back seat to sexual jealousy.
Kathleen Parker’s wretchedness reaches an impressive new low with this psycho-babbling piece of dribble...
OH MAN!
I’ve thought she was a black woman for years...
Nobody ever corrected me - until now...
Just let me go on and on making a fool of myself...
Yikes!!!
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