It strikes me that, for many Obama supporters, the motive in adopting the slight Ivy League candidate was a desire to appear de rigeur. Obama, that is, reflected back liberal fashion.
But if this race is all about fashion, and the new Zogby poll has any merit, it seems suddenly that Palin has become the new black.
— Which means, should the McCain ticket prevail, we can look forward to a liberal resurgence of “beehives” — and the specter of young women from fine finishing schools taking elective courses in how to field dress a moose, exulting all the while, “isn’t this, like, so marvelously rural…?”
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crossposted (in slightly different form), to National Lampoon’s Zaz Report. Which, if you visit, they’ll like me better.
So, you know.
The new black?
Oh, you are so going to take heat for that one Mr. Goldstein.
I’m going to go pour a big bowl of Chex Mix, be right back…
RACIST/FASHIONIST!
reflected back I stumbled over a little but I’m just waking up
AND SNOWMOBILING!! Not gauche and quaint in an American Gothic backwoods pioneer state kinda way.
KING CRAB!
Moose live in beehives? How do they get up the tree?
Or did I misunderstand?
They had an episode like that on the Beveryly Hillbillies once, I think when I was about six.
– The “BeeHive”. Whoa.
– You know Jeff, sometimes your mutterings spiral off into such a full blooded wallowing in the nostalgic stupor of the blaise’ middle 50’s, “The General Electric Kitchen of Tomorrow, replete with Betty Furness in a flared cocktail dress, twirling from automatic toaster to the latest dishwasher, then spinning gracefully to the upright refrigerator, doing her bubbly spiel with “presentation hands”, that I sometimes think you must have been mis-born in a different era.
– But, as they say, all good things must end, and so around 30+ years ago they were finally forced to close the GE carousel of progress at Disneyland when a third docent got crushed between the rotating stage and the maintainance area.
– They say that sometimes late at night while it was open ,the Ghost of Walt could be seen preparing perogie’s on the GE electric range in a Minnie Mouse apron. Some forms of Publicity are not always a good thing.
I’ve never worn a beehive since I heard that spider story.
I’ve never worn a beehive since I learned bees can sting.
– I’ve never worn a Beehive because I don’t swing that way.
The left will do it their way and bring back the rural commune. Macrobiotics, brown rice with crickets for flavor.
There’s a showdown in the making it seems…the ‘effete, urbanesque, NRO-intelligentsia-blue-blooded near-liberal Rockefeller (R)epublicans’ who are playing the ‘credentialism’ game and have (at best) lukewarm support for McCain’s VP choice. There’s much attendant hand-wringing and harrumph!ing over there. It’s off-putting at best, I think.
Versus a majority of we, the small (r)(C)onservatives, the Reagan wing, that’s set to come alive, now, because of Sarah Palin.
It’s time those elite blue-blood main-stream RINO Republicans are given a swift kick by the small ‘r”s. By the big ‘C’onservatives.
This is the same sort of thing Ronald Reagan faced in 1982, when the Rockefeller sorts, worried, installed Bush Sr. as VP to keep Reagan under watch and thumb. We see how that played out…Reagan is a hero to those of us who appreciate a strong conservative politician; Bush, and later Bush the Weaker, not so much.
Sarah Palin I can see in place to keep conservative watch and check on John McCain. And, later, as the strong ‘C’onservative we’ll need to lead the Republican party out of the wilderness. Even if we lose this one, Palin-Jindal or Jindal-Palin is our future.
Our only HOPE!
(can I get that in a beehive to go, please?)
– Sorry. We’re out of stock on beehives. But we do have some lovely Philco portable radio’s and a fresh stock of Lava lamps in a wide range of color schemes if you’re interested.
Heh.
With the choice of Gov. Palin, it’s the third term of Dick Cheney,” Kerry said on ABC News’ “This Week.”
“John McCain is a prisoner of the right wing, not a maverick.”
FREE JOHN MCCAIN!
(again)
Good God, what a buffoon. As bad as Byrd and Rockefeller are, sane West Virginians can always look to Mass. for a small bit of comfort.
Serr8d, you said what I was trying to say over at the NRO bashing thread at Ace’s place, only so much better.
“”It’s almost insulting to the Hillary supporters,” Kerry said, calling Palin a “Cheneyesque social conservative who’s going to satisfy the base. John McCain is a prisoner of the right wing, not a maverick.”
– Terr-razza must have stopped from swilling her raisins and Gin long enough to give her boy-toy Lurch look-a-like hubby his talking points for the day.
– Kerry should be back in Mass, hustling his bullshit. Hes got a serious opponent that may kick his ass in the upcoming Senate race worse than the Ketchup slut does.
– At least Obama seems to have finally gotten his unwashed mob of supporters to STFU with any comments using the word “experience”.
– Every time they “help” him he losses another two points in the polls.
Skinny, you mean.
The phrase “the new black” has lately been reminding me of this classic of liberal fashion (or something that sounds like “liberal fashion”):
Slimming.
(Jesse beat me to the one-liner here.)
John Kerry: One-man circus, heavy on the clown.
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ThomasD…the winner of that (now closed) thread…
Besides any man opposed to her is just a sucker of cock.
He’s like the Cirque du Soleil: odd-looking, funny-sounding, barely comprehensible, and French.
Except he has no talent.
Wasn’t it Tina Fay saying on SNL that “Bitch is the new black.” (referring to Hillary, natch.)? Only to be followed a week later by Tracy Grady quipping that “Black is the new President.”
Methinks Tina was closest to the pin, except that Governor Palin doesn’t seem to have quite as high a bitch percentage as Senator Clinton.
Tracy Morgan, that is. Lamontyoubigdummy would have gotten that right the first time.
jeez i really dont get it all. are you saying obama is all about fashion and style which his oppenent doesnt have?. well see my cheap fashion school website fashonplc.com
The clothing or fashion market is a multi-billion-pound industry and the constantly changing styles that dominate it are largely dictated by well-known designers who showcase their new seasonal collections several times a year at fashion shows in cities such as New York, London and Paris so because it is something I am interested in I thought I would try my luck at getting a piece of the action and wright some fashion fashion blogs – so I hope you don’t mind that I am scouring the net to get some idea’s from other peoples blogs to see exactly whats hot and not, yours has giving me a few tips on political fashion, Thanks