The Sarah Palin Comparisons You Didn't Hear During the Campaign
 

Sure, the elections are over and Sarah Palin has pretty much gone back to being an embarrassing footnote in this nation's history. But the woman herself won't allow us to completely forget about her.

Most recently, Palin compared the negativity towards her campaign with the open-arms Caroline Kennedy's been receiving in New York. And while that's a valid point, we just think there are so many other famous figures to whom Palin bears more of a resemblance than a Kennedy, or even a pit bull.

 

A boxing kangaroo
With all her comparisons to pigs in lipsticks and pit bulls with lipstick and grizzly bears (without lipstick?), the Sarah Palin comparison that went under everyone's radar was right in front of their noses: Sarah Palin is a boxing kangaroo! The novelty factor combined with the blindsiding one-two punch, Palin's campaign was a public spectacle that turned into a train wreck of an uncontrolled contender. So basically, watch this video and tell me it's not the dissolution of McCain's platform summed up.

 


Hillary Clinton
Think about it: They both don't mind pimping their kids to get ahead, they both bring questions of gender bias to the front of the political arena, each feels like she got an unfair shake from the MSM, and each pretty much hates Barack Obama but can never come right out and say it. Sarah Palin is just Hillary Clinton with a better taste in outfits and a worst taste in ideology.

 

Kirstie Alley's character from Drop Dead Gorgeous
(Clip starts at 40 seconds) Besides the obvious similarities in their speech, there is no on in cinematic history that bears so much resemblance to ex-beauty queen Sarah Palin than ex-beauty queen Gladys Leeman in 1999's mockumentary Drop Dead Gorgeous. As Kirstie Alley's character tries to get her daughter into the finals of the Sarah Rose Cosmetics Mount Rose American Teen Princess Pageant, she will stoop to any dirty, underhanded tactics in order to win, including rumormongering, fear-baiting, and all-out class wars. And she does it all while maintaining her aw-shucks demeanor and apple-pie smile. Sound familiar? Mama Bear maaaad.

 


Charles Kane
Let's see, humble beginnings in the cold north followed by years in the spotlight as both a public figure and a journalist (Palin worked as a sports journalist for for KTUU-TV and KTVA-TV). But in a continuing effort to fill that empty void and make the world love her, Palin's failed run for (national) public office lead to her sequestering herself from the media in her own private Xanadu (Alaska).

 

Anita Bryant
Maybe it's just because Milk is so big right now, but Sarah Palin fear-of-the-"other" rhetoric reminds us just a teeny bit of Anita Bryant's anti-homosexuality crusades in the 70s. Bryant, too, was a figure in entertainment (singing, not beauty pageants) before she picked up the call of the Lord and made it her personal mission to put him on speakerphone. We hope Palin eventually proves similar to Bryant by disappearing when she realizes that America is more tolerant than she was banking on.

 
 

Hmmm…are there any uncanny resemblances we're missing? Besides Tina Fey, of course. And the mom from Bobby's World.

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Comments (9)

No. 1 · redsongia

You forgot the most obvious compqarison — to a steaming turd.

Posted: Jan 12, 2009 at 9:38 am · @Reply · [Flag?]
No. 2 · DEO

Caroline Kennedy hasn´t received OPEN ARMS from the media, Sarah Palin, you lying wingnut, the media has compared poor Caroline to YOUUUU!!!!

Posted: Jan 12, 2009 at 10:40 am · @Reply · [Flag?]
No. 3 · Mark Brant

You know Sarah touched the lives of many because it was easy to identify with a mother who has a daughter who is pregnant outside of wedlock, she is not well versed in "someone elses" central policy. I often wondered if Ms Couric would have asked Barack how many States we actually have in the United States, or maybe if he could do any better job explaining the Bush Doctrine. Actually when Sarah went on the explain what the Bush doctrine was…she was quite correct. And then the Media had a fit when Sarah was interviewed while a turkey was being offered up for someones Thanksgiving. Where do we think what we eat comes from? That chicken dinner, that omlet, that deer steak, or a great hamburger. How about that pork chop-ever seen a pig butchered? Well— get over it. We were created to subdue the earth and the animals created for our enjoyment. Next time you wrap your lips around that juicy piece of turkey-next Thanksgiving- realize that you are eating something made not for us so that we'd have pets but so that we can feed our children and our spouses.
It would be great if all politicians would step out into the real world more often and stop sterilizing every photo-op so that some fornicator can dress in pastels and get a 1200.00 haircut so that they can win a primary.

Posted: Jan 12, 2009 at 12:40 pm · @Reply · [Flag?]
No. 4 · Holls

"We were created to subdue the earth and the animals created for our enjoyment"
Fornicator? Pastels? Deer steak? What?

I just may have to make the comments my reason for coming to this site.

Posted: Jan 12, 2009 at 1:45 pm · @Reply · [Flag?]
No. 5 · I don't think Bert and Ernie are gay... just looking for the right women.

I agree, Holls.
I wish I thought about where my "omlets" came from before.
Anyhow, terrific list. Charles Kane? Duuuuuude.

Posted: Jan 12, 2009 at 2:10 pm · @Reply · [Flag?]
No. 6 · LittleNipper

I'm hurt. It's not just Alaska that goes for the crazy. Minnesota (the land o' loons) elected one to the US Congress. So how could you miss comparing Sarah to our very own Michelle Bachmann?

Posted: Jan 12, 2009 at 2:53 pm · @Reply · [Flag?]
No. 7 · redsongia

…and with all her crying about how she should have won, I'm still waiting to hear what she would do about this mess had she pulled it off.

Care to take a stand on the issues, Gov?

Posted: Jan 12, 2009 at 3:00 pm · @Reply · [Flag?]
No. 8 · DEO

@Mark Brant:
HMMMMMMMMMMM, Palin is dressed in the pastel, PEACH.
As for the 1000.00 haircuts, I do believe that is WHY Palin got the flack for the 150K wardrobe….because spending all that money was absurd, in reality she was MORE absurd.
Yes, it´s EASY to identify with a mother out of wedlock, I GUESS. I dont see anything wrong with it, but then I AM A FORNICATOR, so there ya have it. Palin runs on a platform (a styrofoam one) of abstinance, and sterling family, conservative, christain values.
Hucksters and con artists attach themselves to the Christian naivete, I am afraid.
Where there is smoke there is fire (and sometimes BRIMSTONE, WHAAAAA!!!).
I understand what you´re saying, Mark Brand, but not everyone buys what she is selling…and selling she is.
PS
The turkey and where it comes from was never the point. The point was the giant gaffe of a public official interviewing IN FRONT OF SUCH A SPECTACLE. Children watch the news sometimes, it´s uncomfortable. It was a question of POOR JUDGEMENT, just contant POOR JUDGEMENT from this lady, NOT HOW A TURKEY IS DECAPITATED.
As Letterman said, Palin can see Russia from her house but she can´t see what is going on 5 feet behind her-

Posted: Jan 13, 2009 at 6:34 am · @Reply · [Flag?]
No. 9 · DEO

Also too………. (as Palin would say, WINK; WINK; NUDGE; NUDGE)

Palin´s HAITSTYLIST got $1500.00 a day to coif her. So maybe you can SEE that a $1500.00 haircut, you know ONE every 2 months or so, would actually BE A BARGAIN compared to the Sarah Palin hair bill. At any rate, the argument of a DEMOCRAT getting a $1500.00 haircut no longer holds water when you are wearing $1500 Prada Loafers and $1000.00 Manolo Blahnik pumps AS McCain and PALIN WERE/ARE.
It´s an abomination, END OF STORY, as you guys would
say.

Posted: Jan 13, 2009 at 6:46 am · @Reply · [Flag?]
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