We don't post a lot of political stuff on Neatorama - but I couldn't resist this one: Republican VP-nominee Sarah Palin is sparking a buying frenzy for ... wigs!
Since John McCain chose her last month as his running mate, Gov. Palin's personal style has sparked a buying frenzy. Many women are snapping up her choices of shoes and eyeglasses and blogging about which brand of lipstick she wears. Hairstylists and wig sellers report sudden demand for her trademark up-dos. Indeed, the brands behind Gov. Palin's fashion taste have gone into overdrive seeking to cash in on the association.
On Wednesday, WigSalon.com issued a news release boasting that it has wigs and hair pieces "that reflect the new looks made popular by Sarah Palin," along with style tips to "instantly" achieve the swept-back style.
Amongst other fashion windfall beneficiaries are the "Naughty Monkey" shoes and eyeglasses by Kazuo Kawasaki.
Let's not have the comments degenerate into the usual mess, mmkay?
More to the point, why aren't more people mimicking her polar-bear hunting? That's one endangered species that's been getting a free ride too long!
First woman president?
While the mass sheep-like behavior here is really sad, remember that just because women like her style doesn't mean they're planning on voting for her or even voting based on the sole reason of fashion. Similarly, there are many men out there who would love to see her topless/hit it but wouldn't vote for her regardless.
What's bad is that I *do* have family in politics. I'm related to both Victor Paz and Walter Guevara, two presidents of Bolivia. Hell, I've been to more countries than Palin has.
Me can has presidency?
I guess I can understand that women are wanting to mimmic what she wears, but the wig part has me flummoxed. I didn't realize that wig wearing was such a big thing.
Oh, and Absent(minded); if being conservative is such a terrible thing, why is it that liberals almost always try to fool voters by moving to the right during campaigns? Even Obama is doing it.
Tattoos, on the other hand ...
We'll finally get that evolution mess out of schools
Wasnt sure about MCCain being pro-Christian enough but Sarah gives me comfort. Obama scares me, I can't help but think he identifies with his muslim relatives too much, why doesnt he still go by Barry?
We didn't come from monkeys! The earth is not billions of years old! Go sarah! McCain/Palin 08!!!
What I don't understand is why conservatives (most conservatives--see Peggy Noonan's off-camera remarks) aren't being honest about how absurd this woman's candidacy is. It's okay to want McCain. It's okay to believe in conservative tenets. But why is it necessary to pretend that this woman is appropriate as a potential president? It boggles the mind.
It's as if, in the fever to get a Republican elected, they will accept--no, vehemently defend--any crazy-ass shit the GOP pulls. You can walk and chew gum at the same time. You can believe in conservative values and still call a bad, dangerous decision what it is.
Preemptive retort to the bashers: try, in your response, to make a reasoned argument as to Palin's suitability as the potential leader of the free world instead of seizing on my tone (how condescending!) or ignoring my point and attacking Obama because it's easier than coming up with anything remotely plausible as to why Sarah Palin should be in line for the most powerful position in the world.
Seriously: all thoughtful, dedicated conservatives: can you actually make the case that this is a wise choice for the country? I would sooo respect a conservative who could just say, "I'm voting McCain, but yeah, this is ridiculous. I ain't gonna lie." I mean come on! We're all people here. Just be straight.
You see, if you notice, the 'left' here are only ridiculing the policies/viewpoints or the character (or lack thereof) of the POLITICIANS themselves.
The 'right' here, on the other hand, see fit to insult the POSTER, including the person posting the original topic, and slander those who don't adhere to their viewpoints with condenscending and insulting terms.
Please note that everything in quotes in the preceding paragraph was copied from the preceding comments. I don't see much discussion of policies or viewpoints here, only shallow attacks on Palin & McCain's character based on looks and age. Typical — and expected — on a forum like Neatorama, but I don't hear much better coming from the left anywhere else either.
If you'd like to get into a substantive discussion of the proposed policies and viewpoints of the candidates on both sides, I'd be happy to oblige. But I won't hold my breath waiting for it to happen here.
O Alex, what did thou expect? And I agree that the wig thing is wtf.
But bear in mind, this neatorama post was about something superfifical in the first place: looks. Don't be surpised (or fake-offended) when people start responding in kind.
Is that really your argument defending American conservativism? Everyone else is doing it? Kinda weak. Weak and lame.
Lame-weak.
Lweak.
To get back to hair... I remember when the "Lady Di" hairstyle became popular. It's what people do. If you ask me, there's not much really fancy to copy there.
Especially "Jesus is Good"'s comment. That shit is just crazy.
1: I don't dig the "sexy librarian grandma" look, and anyone who buys things to look like her because its trendy makes me die a little on the inside.
2: I struggle to say this, but she is _technically_ qualified to be vice president, being that the constitution gives no qualifications other than those to be president - 35 yrs old, natural born citizen, ect. On that note, in terms of experience, I don't think she's ready. Hell, I've read interviews with people she worked with years ago who don't even think she's particularly bright.
I think we need to look more to her past works than her looks. She was a beauty queen, an intern for a sports caster, mayor of a town that wouldn't fill up a sports arena, and governor of the most ass-backwards, redneck state in the union. She was nearly recalled in her mayoral role. She is still being investigated for firing the husband of her sister (who apparently cheated on him, and asked Palin to have him fired) She was 100% for that "bridge to nowhere" before she was 110% against it. In fact the money stayed in her hands, and they're currently building a road out to where that bridge would have been. She and her husband may even have ties to a secessionist movement in Alaska. She claims to be a "reformer and a maverick" but she got elected to Governor partly on the premise that Alaska deserved a public official who wouldn't bilk the taxpayers by charging per diem for days spent at home. She then charged taxpayers for over 300 days spent at home.
Seriously people, there are good ways to make a point, and there are terrible ways.
The cost of the bridge was originally around 60 to 80 million. She was for it then. She opposed it when it ballooned to over 300 million. Good for her.
She has always been a registered Republican. Never a member of the Alaska secessionists.
She has 12 years in every level of government in Alaska as well as running the Alaska Energy Commission, the most powerful commission in the state. (That's 12 years more executive experience than Obama)
Any argument that she's not qualified for lack of experience goes triple for Obama.
Seriously do a search for palin on Snopes or FactCheck before you make your arguments.
As for Sarah Palin, there is nothing wrong with her as a VP candidate; she's got more real life experience than Obama and Obiden put together, and any lack of experience that you might point out is a product of your intellectually dishonest dismissal of what she's done; "mayor of a town that wouldn’t fill up a sports arena, and governor of the most ass-backwards, redneck state in the union," doesn't mean she doesn't have what it takes to run this country in a pinch. Just because you can't bring yourself to admit it doesn't make it any less true.
And if you want to talk intellectual dishonesty, let's turn the mirror your way; can you actually make the case that Barack Obama is a wise choice for the country? I would sooo respect a liberal who could examine Obama's record honestly and with the same scrutiny that is being used against Palin right now. I'm talking about the guy you all want in the Oval Office, not even a "heartbeat away" from it. Obama's got a resume that is an embarrassment and calls a whirlwind European/Middle East tour in the summer of an election year "foreign policy experience? This guy has more skeletons in his closet than Sweeney Todd. Take away his teleprompter and speechwriter and he stammers worse than Bush. He doesn't have the backbone to tell people what he believes, but complains that he's not paid enough to say when life begins. He blatantly co-opts the religiosity of the right trying to garner some of that vote, and vows to muck up the tax system out of his desire to "care for the least of these", yet the same people who complain bitterly about any expression of religiosity in a forum like this keep their traps shut about Obama's false faith in Jesus or Mohammed or whoever. He runs on a platform of Hope (he doesn't screw things up too badly) and Change, then he picks a running mate who is not only part of the Washington Establishment but can be accurately accused of creating it.
The left has turned a blind eye to all of it because someone has decided that Obama would make a good puppet in the White House. You may try to dismiss that notion, but how else can you explain the rise of a nobody junior Senator from the Midwest with nothing but two premature memoirs to his credit to the leader of the Democrat Party? It’s as if, in the fever to get a Democrat — any Democrat — elected, you will accept–no, vehemently defend–any crazy-ass shit George Soros and the DNC pulls. You can walk and chew gum at the same time. You can be so ignorant as to believe that socialist policy will work in the US and still call a bad, dangerous decision what it is.
Yes, I'll bash Obama in spite of what you said, and I'll be honest enough with you to say that a McCain Presidency doesn't thrill me, but the alternative in this election cycle scares me spitless, so it's matter of the lesser of two evils. But for you folks to ignore the blatant warts of your own candidate and instead microscopically examine the blemishes on Sarah Palin is really too much.
I would love to hear someone, anyone, make a reasoned argument as to Obama's suitability as the potential leader of the free world instead of seizing on my tone (how condescending!) or ignoring my point and attacking Palin or McCain because it’s easier than coming up with anything remotely plausible as to why Barack Hussein Obama should be an election away from the most powerful position in the world.
Seriously: all thoughtful, dedicated liberals: can you actually make the case that Obama is a wise choice for the country? I would sooo respect a liberal who could just say, “I’m voting Obama, but yeah, the man is an empty suit and nothing more than a puppet. I ain’t gonna lie.” I mean come on! We’re all people here. Just be straight.
Just because the liberal message sounds so strong here doesn't mean it resonates with the rest of the country. The majority in this country still votes conservative; unfortunately many are uninformed enough to buy into the lie of a guy like Obama when he tries to appear more conservative than he is. I predict that the next couple of months will be marked by McCain (and Palin) taking off the gloves and tenderizing Obama & Obiden a bit, and exposing them for the empty suit he is.
Sorry Alex. Couldn't help myself.
Yet they have no shame about casting the stone the other way.
That's the trouble with a two party system.
And don't get me started about America thinking of itself as the "leader" of the world.
Sarah Palin's hairstyle doesn't do anything for me, and neither does Hilary Clinton's, John McCain's or Barack Obama's. I'm far more interested in what's going on inside their heads. The question I'm asking myself this election year is, "Who's going to get us out of Iraq the quickest?"
Funny you should ask that; I heard just today that Obama's new strategery is to set a timeline to have them out by 2012; far enough into his first term to ensure that Bush doesn't get credit for it, but in time to make it possible for him to say that he got them out. How's that gonna sit with the MoveOn set?
If you're on the fence this site may help:
http://www.obamataxcut.com
How can he propose to cut taxes for 95 percent of us when 40 percent don't pay any income taxes? It all goes back to his skewed notion of "fairness" in economics rather than logic or sound economic principals, and ignores the fact that the Bush tax cuts that he wants to phase out actually resulted in increases in treasury receipts. Reagan was right (as always); a rising tide lifts all ships. Put more money into (or rather, take less money out of) the hands of people that make businesses go, and everybody prospers. Obama's so-called tax cut is nothing more than old fashioned Marxist income redistribution; what is fair about that?
At this point there are a lot more reasons to dislike Obama than there are to dislike McCain: his dishonesty with the tax cut and his ignorance on economic issues is just the start.
So from the paragraph you devoted to addressing my question, you give me the following profoundly lukewarm defense: "...there is nothing wrong with her as a VP candidate."
You then assert without support that she has "more real life experience than Obama and Biden put together" (wow, how is this even literally, chronologically, possible...) and go on to claim that any problem I might have with her is a product of my own ignorance. Hm. How...creepily illogical. I simply wanted solid reasons.
Finally, you assure me that her small town accomplishments DON'T mean that she's NOT qualified to run this country "in a pinch" (ouch). I...don't even know how to respond to that. For a person who obviously has a critical mind, you have got to recognize that statement as fantastically lame in the context of the importance of that prospect.
I consider my question unanswered and my challenge unmet. And I think that your helplessness in resorting to exactly the kind of rhetoric and attack I predicted would be the only rebuttal to an eminently legitimate inquiry is quite telling. You accuse others of dishonesty. You want me to think critically about the problems with my candidate. Your record of doing same in the context of the issue I brought up is nonexistent.
Look, I know I'm not going to change your mind. I respect that you believe things that I don't understand. My post was and continues to be about Sarah Palin. If you think she's appropriate as our President, I'm extremely surprised. The thought is very, very frightening to me. I believe she was a reckless, dangerous choice, and I just had thought that anyone who had truly, vividly visualized her in the Oval Office would at least admit it's not a comforting image of the future of our country. If that same image fills you with confidence and peace, then this conversation necessarily has nowhere left to go.
The thought of either Obama or Biden in the Oval Office is very, very frightening to me. I believe they are a reckless, dangerous pair, and anyone who had truly, vividly visualized either of them in the Oval Office would at least admit it’s a downright scary image of the future of our country.
You're right; this "conversation" (and I use that term very loosely) is pretty much over. I feel like I'm talking to a wall. I am thankful though that people who share your opinion are in the minority, and I'm fully confident that by November the majority of voters will see Obama as the empty suit he is.
Personal best wishes to you; may your party go up in flames. (Friendly joke attempt, damn it. Honestly, I'm tired of the vitriol. Perhaps you will accept the fact that my convictions come from a place as legitimate as yours and we can agree to throw up our hands and have a rueful laugh. Enough said.)
And apologies for the comment recycling thing; the copy/paste/change names method of turning an argument around can be fun, but it's not always effective and only sometimes funny.
Oh, and I'm still waiting for an honest "wtf" about Obama, but won't hold my breath. Cheers!
The post did request that we not get into the "mess"
I am surprised that a lot women are wearing wigs. I know about smaller hairpieces can mimic Palin's updos....well I learned something new.