If you say so. But, c'mon, Tamar, considering Palins signature line about pitbulls and lipstick, you have to admit that there was an attempt to use that old phrase in linkage. It defies logic to think otherwise unless you would be more willing to consider it a huge gaffe and poor judgment. The crowd at the time certainly got the "joke" and reference and no amount of willful blindness on partisan Democrats part can change that. Unless you also have a bizarro-world explanation for the crowd's reaction and that I'd really like to hear.

I'm perfectly willing to overlook slips of the tongue (or else I'd have a lot of fun with Biden) but claiming that this *wasn't* a clumsy attempt to insult Palin strains credulity.

>>Alan:
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>>http://www.democrats.org/page/community/post/elizabethberry/Cgsq
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>No, I really don't think so. The expression "lipstick on a pig" is common. I saw video last night of McCain using it a whole bunch of times (at least once referring to a Hillary Clinton policy).
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>The page you point to is a blog on a site apparently dedicated to party-building. It appears that anybody who wants can start a blog on that site (http://www.democrats.org/page/content/StartABlog/). I see no evidence that that blog belongs to anyone official. Here's the woman's About page: http://www.democrats.org/page/dashboard/public/gkRMY.
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>Tamar