The Baaaaaabe!

Sarah Palin is definitely a political phenomenon of an almost freakish nature. Coming out of seemingly nowhere (the wilds of Alaska), she has taken the political world by storm. Peggy Drexler makes a great analogy:

The Republicans have found themselves an alpha female (the ones who run the high school and date the quarterback) to Hillary's beta female (the ones who run the student council and win the scholarships.) As Rush Limbaugh put it in full hubba hubba voice, "We've got a baaaaaaabe on our ticket."

He [McCain] picked her because a campaign as stiff and tired as a McCain ad lib needed a "baaaabe on the ticket." Sexist? If the female governor of Alaska had a uni-brow and wore mukluks instead of stilettos -- and had the same skimpy qualifications and apparent ethical baggage as Palin -- would she be on the ticket? Face it: Palin's hot, and McCain's not. And all of a sudden, there are steamed up windows at the RNC.