I think this is a lot of what pisses some women (At least my wife) off. This idea that Palin represents Women or something. That an attack on Palin is an attack on Women. That what Palin says, Women say.

God forbid someone attack her for what she is without people like you saying, "ZOMG SEXSIZT!!!"

This guy:



Yes, that's real, not a photoshop. He wore it to testify AGAINST LGBT folks having equal employment and housing protections.

He looks so friendly though!

OMG Wakka! Quick! We're picking on Eddie and he's a guy, leap to his defense with some enlightened anti-sexism commentary!

then she doesn't deserve to be in office of any kind.

The pussy and dick comments were out of line imo Wakka, but it's Lanys dude...

Somehow, I don't think his definition of red shirt matches mine.

So has the gov become more transparent now?

She looks like every other rundown mother of 13 kids I've ever seen and I wouldn't have ever thought any different otherwise. I guess she might be 'Alaska hot' but let's not go there.

And sexism? Boo freaking hoo. That pendulum has definitely swung well over the line back in favor of women as far as most society goes.

People hated her rather than disliked her because she looked better than most political women... aka Hilary. Boo Fucking Hoo.

She looks like every other rundown mother of 13 kids I've ever seen and I wouldn't have ever thought any different otherwise.

People hated her rather than disliked her because she looked better than most political women... aka Hilary. Boo Fucking Hoo.

I suppose not, Bzalthek.

Palin was considered a shining star, bright and energetic in the Republican Party because she was standing next to Mr. Freeze (McCain). Put her in a room with Huckabee, Jindal, Romney, or hell any other Republican with a pulse and she loses all of that shine -- becomes just a "pretty face in with the boys"

She is so out of her league now.

And when did having a couple kids automatic mean a woman's body is wrecked?

Somehow, I don't think his definition of red shirt matches mine.

It's just ignorance talking. Little boys who haven't actually seen a grown woman naked assume they don't look as good if they've had kids.

It's just ignorance talking. Little boys who haven't actually seen a grown woman naked assume they don't look as good if they've had kids.

her face is fine. she kinda has the sexy librarian thing going on.

sorry, but a girl with a wrecked body and a cute face is overall not fuckable.

The last girl I was with who had a kid had horrible stretch marks on her stomach and tits, and it was a very unattractive effect.

If death comes in threes, and political deaths are no exception, who's next after Sanford and Palin?

We'll see if she's born again, either in 2012 or later. But for now her resignation (and her bizarre announcement of it) confirms how much was at stake for this country last November. The months since have not gone well for her, and in that sense her quitting is a desperate and understandable attempt to stop the clock. Do it now, while some still think of her up on that stage in Minnesota -- fresh, composed, and articulate. This is a politician who does not age well. In American political history at the national level, has any figure ever been simultaneously so charismatic, fascinating, frustrating, and terrifying?

As time passed, Palin's appeal exposed some dark undercurrents in the national character, and this will demand vigilance now as her orphaned supporters lash out at those who "brought her down." Frustration and anger were growing on the Right, especially on the fringe, even before she quit. Absent a miraculous upturn in the economy, it increasingly feels like there's some sort of seminal socio-political event brewing out there. Her resignation could hasten that or bring it into sharper focus. It's unlikely to defuse it.

Between her speeches and her book deal, she can reasonably hope to earn $10 million over the next two years. She’ll fly in private jets, sleep in sumptuous hotel suites, receive rhapsodic applause.

Yet there will be no escaping another story line. Faced with exasperating criticism and the accumulating cares of public office—she quit to cash in. Her admirers can excuse anything, but to the much larger audience of non-admirers, Palin will look a lot like those CEOs who wrecked their banks and the national economy while accepting huge bonuses for themselves. John McCain’s slogan in 2008 was "Country First." Palin’s in 2012? "I seen my opportunities, and I took 'em."