A Pilgrim’s Digression

It’s getting crazy out there, folks.  This little tidbit is courtesy Howard Kurtz’s Media Notes in the WashPo.

Forget Iraq and health care. Forget the polls and focus groups. There’s a new explanation why Sarah Palin is the surprise hit of the season.

“She’s sexy. Men want a sexy woman,” says CNBC’s Donny Deutsch. “Woman want to idealize about a sexy woman . . . She’s a lioness . . . Women want to be her. Men want to mate with her.”

What men are really saying, Deutsch adds, is, “I want her laying next to me in bed.”

First point I would make: any record of similar statements made about Obama?  Do women want to “mate” with him?  Men may want to be him; I don’t know and I don’t presume to speak for other men.

Second point: beauty is completely relative.  I may be the only man in existence who can’t find a woman attractive unless her intellect, beliefs, and personality are also attractive, but that’s just how I am.  For me, her intellect, beliefs, and personality (as displayed at the Republican convention) are a turnoff that surpasses whatever physical beauty she may hold.  Her religiosity suggests a frigidity, or at least a rigidity, that at least for me, do not provoke excited fantasies about what she’s like in the bedroom.

Also, there is the voice.  No one has mentioned the voice.  It really isn’t relevant, but since irrelevancies are rapidly overtaking substance in this campaign, what the heck.  Does anyone else find her voice, particularly that accent, annoying?  I’ve heard it referred to as a “western twang.”  I’d say it more approximates the annoying whinging of a prepubescent boy from North Dakota.

Maybe it’s just me, but every time I hear a Palin soundbite, I grit my teeth not only at the substance of what she says, but at the sound.  I don’t think I can bear listening to her for four or eight or more years.

“I love those Hockey Mawms…”

Please God, no more.

But to return to the original topic–it is so very important after all–is Sarah Palin sexy?

Glen Beck called the fake bikini photos “conservative porn” and said Palin was “smokin’ hot.”  I think he needs to get out of the studio more.  Perhaps she is hot, if one can get past everything else about her.  For me at least, I can’t do it.

It’s like trying to get me to acknowledge that Ann Coulter is hot.  There is no way in hell.  If I saw a picture of Anne Coulter or Sarah Palin nude, I’d laugh.  It just woudn’t do a damned thing for me.

Incidentally, again on the subject of her looks, on the WMAL morning show this morning Andy parks went off the Palin reservation and commented that he saw a picture of her recently in which she had the “crazy eye” of Jennifer Wilbanks, the runaway bride of a couple years ago.

I’ve always thought she looked a bit wild-eyed, myself.  These are things people only say on radical, left-wing blogs like mine, though.  Parks was immediately chastised by his co-host, Fred Grandy, and he retracted his statement.

Supposedly Palin was a beauty contestant at one time, but it’s no surprise to me that she was only a runner up.  Let’s hope that trend continues in the current contest.