Despite the media coaching, the cheesy winks and that lapel pin, the real attraction of the Alaska Governor is her authenticity
It was, for us legion of Sarah Palin obsessives, a disappointing debate all said. No moose-in-night-sights Couric interview dead air, no dizzying glimpses down the bottomless well of her unknowledge, no dinosaurs, no pipelines mandated by God. No foxy peep-toe heels, jewel-bright jackets or Christmas-cracker ear-wear - funereal garb now a universal political signifier of earnestness in hard times - and no definitive answer either to the most pressing issue of the campaign so far: did Sarah Palin, as the Huffington Post claims, have her lip-liner permanently tattooed on?
Instead, we had Mrs Palin in Pygmalion, marshalling her notes, getting those harsh, flat snowline vowels around foreign leaders' names learnt by rote: enunciating Hamid Karzai and Kim Jong Il not once but twice, because now - listen up, you snippy media folks! - she darn well can. Professor Henry Higgins-Kissinger has schooled her well, as have the strategist crammers who locked her away in John McCain's Arizona ranch, not letting her take the bunch of marbles from her mouth until she could say Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ...Please read full article...
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