# Can the Democrats sink any lower? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 9, 2008, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democrats-sink-any-lower/467200 "2008-10-09T18:03:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democrats-sink-any-lower/467200/21 "2008-10-09T19:18:52Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > Sarah Palin and Michelle Obama are the same age, and to my mind Ms Obama is the prettier woman, on top of which she doesn’t appear to use the same tricks (such as hair styling) as Governor Palin to look good. I’d do them both… at the same time. That would be one heck of an Oreo sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![gurujulp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@gurujulp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gurujulp)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democrats-sink-any-lower/467200/22 "2008-10-09T19:24:29Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > You’re just trying to distract people from the OP. This isn’t about sources. This is about judgment. Do you really want a black radical from Chicago making judgments for you? Especially one that befriended domestic terrorists when, in his own words, he was “only eight years old”? Think, man. Use your head for something besides a hat rack. Wow- I just have to respond- so he befriended the terrorist when he was only eight? :smack: How out of context can you use a phrase? He was only eight, so he could not have been involved… 😕 ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democrats-sink-any-lower/467200/23 "2008-10-09T19:28:32Z")
That’s a whoosh there, sweetie. Welcome to the boards. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democrats-sink-any-lower/467200/24 "2008-10-09T19:37:56Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I’d do her if she got a brain transplant. If you do it in the middle of the procedure, after the removal of the old but before the implantation of the new, you can skullfuck her. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democrats-sink-any-lower/467200/25 "2008-10-09T19:38:46Z")
Hell, that’s nothin’! Davy Crockett killed him a bear when he was only three! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democrats-sink-any-lower/467200/26 "2008-10-09T19:46:36Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > If you do it in the middle of the procedure, after the removal of the old but before the implantation of the new, you can skullfuck her. I have suddenly come to have much more appreciation for the nice, “normal” sex that I have with my girlfriend. If these are my only two choices, I’ll stick with what I already have, thanks so much. _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democrats-sink-any-lower/467200/27 "2008-10-09T19:48:09Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > You’re right. The left wing media is trying to put Obama bin Laden into the White House by not portraying Palin as a cover girl. Those bastards. > > BTW, on a scale of 1 to 2, I’d rate Palin as a 1.5. I’d do her if she got a brain transplant. You mean “implant.” I have it on good information that Governor Palin is in fact a radio-controlled marionette, and that her gaffes are caused by sunspot interference. You life, but my source is utterly reliable. I tortured the infomation out of him myself. What? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democrats-sink-any-lower/467200/28 "2008-10-09T19:51:48Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > [R]etouching, as in removing skin “defects,” smoothing skin, compositing photos, etc., is absolutely forbidden by any serious news magazine. Okay, but what about Newsweek? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democrats-sink-any-lower/467200/29 "2008-10-09T19:58:31Z")
The outrage over that Newsweek cover really is some pretty weak beer. Peple are upset because they didn’t airbrush Palin like a Playboy model? Should they have given her bigger boobs while they were at it? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democrats-sink-any-lower/467200/30 "2008-10-09T19:58:48Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Okay, but what about Newsweek? I was waiting for some wise guy… ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democrats-sink-any-lower/467200/31 "2008-10-09T20:02:55Z")
Finely crafted piece of writing, **Lib**. As for rating Palin, I don’t. Sure, for a politician she’s alright, but I honestly don’t get what all the fuzz is about her looks. Walk north on Fifth from Washington Square to Central Park and you’d get neck cramps if you were to ogle every woman that looks better than her. Vote Palin, she ain’t fugly?! Pathetic. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democrats-sink-any-lower/467200/32 "2008-10-09T20:05:54Z")
All I know is that the next person who says Palin “looks good for her age” gets hit with my walker. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democrats-sink-any-lower/467200/33 "2008-10-09T20:12:33Z")
> [@RedFury](#): > > As for rating Palin, I don’t. Sure, for a politician she’s alright, but I honestly don’t get what all the fuzz is about her looks. Walk north on Fifth from Washington Square to Central Park and you’d get neck cramps if you were to ogle every woman that looks better than her. Yes, but clearly (from that) you are an elitist liberal New Yorker. If you were a redneck from the boondocks, where all the women you saw were your cousins, and the nearest hairdresser was in the county seat a day’s ride away on the mule, you’d think she was a mighty fine woman. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democrats-sink-any-lower/467200/34 "2008-10-09T20:18:39Z")
> [@gurujulp](#): > > Wow- I just have to respond- so he befriended the terrorist when he was only eight? :smack: > > How out of context can you use a phrase? > > He was only eight, so he could not have been involved… 😕 How do you know what he was doing when he was eight? Those people mature very quickly, mostly because of their longer thigh bones and all. We know nothing about him. But he’s a smart guy. We know that. Don’t underestimate his intelligence just because he’s black. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democrats-sink-any-lower/467200/35 "2008-10-09T20:21:56Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > … their longer thigh bones and all … As Mae West would say, “Is that a thigh bone in your pocket, or are you just please to see me?” ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democrats-sink-any-lower/467200/36 "2008-10-09T20:31:32Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > All I know is that the next person who says Palin “looks good for her age” gets hit with my walker. :: steals Jack’s walker, trips him, and lights a cigarette while watching him flounder helplessly on the floor like a Welshman :: Sarah Palin looks good for her age. :: walks away whilst blowing smoke rings :: ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democrats-sink-any-lower/467200/37 "2008-10-09T20:36:20Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > All I know is that the next person who says Palin “looks good for her age” gets hit with my walker. I’d have them look at, for instance, [Julianne Moore](http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/2008/03/01-07/julianne-moore-2.jpg), [Sharon Stone](http://www.beyondhollywood.com/gallery/stills3/sharon-stone-dior1.jpg), [Michelle Pfeifer](http://www.hotterbabes.com/celebrities/pictures/MichellePfeiffer/nude/michelle_pfeiffer_007.jpg), [Halle Berry](http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t52/pimpmyspacecodes/Images/Female_Celebrities/Halle_Berry/images/Halle_Berry_0330.jpg), [Demi Moore](http://upload.moldova.org/movie/actors/d/demi_moore/thumbnails/tn2_demi_moore_4.jpg) and [Meg Ryan](http://www.shapeyourstyle.com/sites/tarmstrong/_files/Image/Meg_Ryan_cropped.jpg) and _ **then** _ come back and say that. Disclaimer: Pictures may not be safe in Republican work environments nor for older men with high blood pressure. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democrats-sink-any-lower/467200/38 "2008-10-09T20:36:30Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > … flounder helplessly on the floor like a Welshman This means WAR! ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democrats-sink-any-lower/467200/39 "2008-10-09T20:41:00Z")
> [@rayh](#): > > This means WAR! Oh, please. I’m at war with everyone. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democrats-sink-any-lower/467200/40 "2008-10-09T20:43:02Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > Yes, but clearly (from that) you are an elitist liberal New Yorker. If you were a redneck from the boondocks, where all the women you saw were your cousins, and the nearest hairdresser was in the county seat a day’s ride away on the mule, you’d think she was a mighty fine woman. 😃 Went to school in Cincy, plenty of ogling to be done in the Midwest as well…if memory still serves 'cause it’s sure been a long while since 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democrats-sink-any-lower/467200.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democrats-sink-any-lower/467200.md?page=3)