# Sarah turns opaque. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 16, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-turns-opaque/463856 "2008-09-16T16:46:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-turns-opaque/463856/241 "2008-09-26T21:27:59Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Seven if you include Fifi La Fontaine’s School of Charm and Poise > > (bonin’ up for Miss Alaska, dont ya know). And for as long as it lasts, here’s [footage of the swimsuit portion](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YYplAoEdDs)of that [event](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FeBPfjMR3s). As an added bonus, I give you an [on topic editorial](http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDZiMDhjYTU1NmI5Y2MwZjg2MWNiMWMyYTUxZDkwNTE=) about Sarah Palin by Kathleen Parker. Seems the bubble really has burst. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-turns-opaque/463856/242 "2008-09-26T21:46:25Z")
She’s the “Hotlips” Houlihan of contemporary politics. ---
**Author:** ![R.P.McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-turns-opaque/463856/243 "2008-09-26T21:47:38Z")
The Sarah Palin / Miss Teen South Carolina super heavyweight championship. You be the judge. [http://gawker.com/5055560/palin-or-miss-teen-south-carolina](http://gawker.com/5055560/palin-or-miss-teen-south-carolina) Have some free yuks! ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-turns-opaque/463856/244 "2008-09-26T22:00:16Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > She’s the “Hotlips” Houlihan of contemporary politics. Guess that makes John McCain the Frank Burns. . . . . . Yeah. That works. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-turns-opaque/463856/245 "2008-09-26T22:02:24Z")
> [@Harborwolf](#): > > Guess that makes John McCain the Frank Burns. > . > . > . > . > . > Yeah. That works. He’s more of a Henry Blake, isn’t he? ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-turns-opaque/463856/246 "2008-09-26T22:08:38Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > He’s more of a Henry Blake, isn’t he? No, Henry Blake just wanted to be left alone to putter away, wanted everyone to play nice or not make him do anything. Frank had the idea that he knew better than everyone else, and that he should be in charge. Frank is perfect. ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-turns-opaque/463856/247 "2008-09-26T22:10:01Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > He’s more of a Henry Blake, isn’t he? I don’t see that. Henry was a good guy, laid back and generous … just a tad befuddled. Unless you mean the crashing thing. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-turns-opaque/463856/248 "2008-09-26T22:11:05Z")
And Guilliani as Klinger! The parallels are eerie! ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-turns-opaque/463856/249 "2008-09-26T22:20:12Z")
> [@choie](#): > > Unless you mean the crashing thing. Eek, no. I was thinking more a clueless guy who loves the younger ladies and is managed by people who are younger and smarter. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-turns-opaque/463856/250 "2008-09-26T22:23:26Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Eek, no. I was thinking more a clueless guy who loves the younger ladies and is managed by people who are younger and smarter. But Henry was uncomfortable with being in charge. Frank **wanted** to be in charge. Henry was a good guy. Frank was ambitious beyond his skill level. Edited to add: and Frank, too, was a cheating husband, cheating w/a trashy blonde younger woman. ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-turns-opaque/463856/251 "2008-09-26T22:53:40Z")
> [@wring](#): > > Edited to add: and Frank, too, was a cheating husband, cheating w/a trashy blonde younger woman. Eh, Hotlips was many things, but ‘trashy’ wasn’t one of them. Now, Nurse Kellye, on the other hand … 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-turns-opaque/463856/252 "2008-09-26T22:56:39Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > She’s the “Hotlips” Houlihan of contemporary politics. No. Unlike Frank, Hotlips was always reasonably competent. Of course you mean the early Hotlips, not the later Margaret. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-turns-opaque/463856/253 "2008-09-26T23:03:37Z")
> [@choie](#): > > Eh, Hotlips was many things, but ‘trashy’ wasn’t one of them. > > Now, Nurse Kellye, on the other hand … 😉 trashy in the “sleeping with a married man” (or two or three) sense. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-turns-opaque/463856/254 "2008-09-27T00:58:38Z")
> [@Harborwolf](#): > > As an added bonus, I give you an [on topic editorial](http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDZiMDhjYTU1NmI5Y2MwZjg2MWNiMWMyYTUxZDkwNTE=) about Sarah Palin by Kathleen Parker. Seems the bubble really has burst. Ouch – that was brutal! Another batch [here](http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/uselection,0,babbling-palin-makes-george-bush-sound-like-cicero,46939), including this gem: > [@](#): > > Even Rod Dreher, a religious-conservative blogger who frequently appears on Fox News and was as recently as last week a Palin supporter, says the Alaskan Governor “was mediocre”. Dreher says he felt “embarrassed” listening to Palin “regurgitating talking points mechanically, not thinking. [She’s] just babbling. She makes George W. Bush sound like Cicero.” ---
**Author:** ![R.P.McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-turns-opaque/463856/255 "2008-09-27T03:21:20Z")
Sarah is so concerned about relating to the average person (forget foreign policy). Here’s an in interesting editorial in the NY Times. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/opinion/26fri4.html?partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/opinion/26fri4.html?partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss) Now I ask, if your daughter was raped and you got billed for a rape kit by the same authorities that were suppose to solve and prosecute the crime, how would you feel? ---
**Author:** ![Belowjob2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Belowjob2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belowjob2.0)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-turns-opaque/463856/256 "2008-09-27T05:15:29Z")
I am starting to feel bad for her, but why in Christ’s name didn’t she turn McCain down? She’s a hot chick from a small town in Alaska. She’s had plenty of practice in telling desperate men “No.” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-turns-opaque/463856/257 "2008-09-27T05:19:05Z")
Must…resist…tacky…straight line…must…resist… ---
**Author:** ![Belowjob2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Belowjob2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belowjob2.0)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-turns-opaque/463856/258 "2008-09-27T05:20:05Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Must…resist…tacky…straight line…must…resist… Don’t fight it. Turn it loose! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-turns-opaque/463856/259 "2008-09-27T07:26:09Z")
No, man. My personal messages queue is pretty much restraining orders as it is. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-turns-opaque/463856/260 "2008-09-27T13:01:57Z")
> [@Belowjob2.0](#): > > I am starting to feel bad for her, but why in Christ’s name didn’t she turn McCain down? > > She’s a hot chick from a small town in Alaska. She’s had plenty of practice in telling desperate men “No.” She didn’t blink. She is one of those people that feels strongly God drives her life (and I’m sure she drives it as well) - so when someone offers you something like this, you see the hand of God. Its nearly blasphemous to turn down God when he presents these opportunities. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-turns-opaque/463856.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-turns-opaque/463856.md?page=14)