palin & brown = american idol politics

[spanone]

pretty is the new smart

[peace frog]

1. King and Queen of the Teabagger Prom

Fancy pageant walkin' for your viewing pleasure.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

2. It does seem to be a disturbing trend.

Politics is show business for ugly people, doesn't apply anymore.

[onehandle]

3. Obama is pretty.

There are exceptions to the rule.

[AspenRose]

4. I was thinking about this last night

Brown is supposed to be the antithesis of Obama (state legislator gone US Senator, suddenly a media darling). That's why they're grooming him for a presidential run.

Obama's good looking. So's Brown (allegedly) and Palin
Obama's telegenic. So's Brown (allegedly) and Palin
Obama can create crowds. I guess Brown can too...we know Palin can

BUT

Obama's actually intelligent...and diverse. Two things the right can't stand.

SO

They see their saviors in Brown and Palin - Obama without the intelligence or ethnicity - that can represent the best of "real America" and rally up their anti-intellectual, provincial, xenophobic, short-attention-span base.

"They look and sound like us!" Eye candy for the men and women, issues be damned. That kind of combination almost guarantees they will vote against their best interest because they're too blinded by the image of what they represent to care about what they will actually DO.

Dare I say it? The Great White Hope(s) who can slay the "Kenyan" Goliath.

[newtothegame]

5. Wow, desperate much? n/t

[AspenRose]

6. How so?

[newtothegame]

7. Sorry my response was a bit snooty. But it was sincere...

There is such a desire on DU see anything and everything as racist, especially when it's politically convenient. Not only is this a bad idea because it makes us look unintelligent and incapable of actual debate, but it also backfires (see: 2008 primaries and huge divide in our party by the arbitrary use of the race and sex cards).

I work with TONS of right-wing individuals, and although misguided, they do not "hate" diversity. They hate that they feel it is forced, and they hate that when they're told that race shouldn't matter, in the end, it ends up being the thing that matters the most.

[Solomon]

8. I see nothing but a succession of great white hopes.

Any one will do as long as they have white skin until some flaw comes out making the next white dope even more attractive than the last.

None of them would be considered serious contenders if a black man were not president.

[AspenRose]

10. Condi certainly has more credentials than Sarah Palin

And she looks good in boots.






Wonder why they haven't approached her.

(that's a rhetorical question)

[AspenRose]

9. My husband is a white republican.

So I know they aren't all racist. I didn't say they were.

Teabaggers, however, HAVE embraced them (racists). Or did you forget what Sarah Palin's rallies looked like?

That's just a fact.





And quite frankly, I'm tired of people on this site claiming a "race card" is being played for pointing out the obvious.

[paulsby]

11. pretty has ALWAYs mattered. look at the kennedy v. nixon debates

people who HEARD the debates, thought (the majority) that nixon won.

those who WATCHED it and saw a sweaty unappealing visage, thought kennedy won.

like it or not, looks and charisma matter in politics.

[spanone]

12. of course it does, but intellect matters too...palin has none

[paulsby]

13. i agree on palin. brown is NOT palin

and i have seen more than one DU'er make the analogy.

palin and brown are both pretty.

the similarity ends there.

brown is NOT a fundie. he's pro choice

he is well educated.

he speaks well

about the only thing he has in common with palin is good looks.

people here who want to lump him in with palin because it makes it easier to demonize him are only fooling themselves, and yet again doing the kind of thing that sets up more losses for democrats. - underestimating a political opponent.

that's what got brown the election in the first place