A Little Ellen-On-Sarah Action

[filkertom]

Well, okay, not what you're thinking.

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[phillip2637.livejournal.com]

Every time you mention a certain U.S. politician, I start hearing Frank Zappa music playing in my head. Which isn't a bad thing exactly, but....

"Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow."

I'm pretty sure there's no deep meaning to it. :-)

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

"I was raised by two heterosexuals and they did not influence me." -- Ellen

I do love Ellen.

[stevemb.livejournal.com]

How can Ellen challenge an intellectual (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iGvyQEbhE7p4C9xKEkCpqqlIdvOgD93VLK4G2) like Sarah?

[pandoradeloeste.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, I usually refrain from attacking a candidate's children or choices pertaining thereto (unless it's something huge like supporting gay rights in public and then disowning your gay child) but. . .Zamboni? Srsly?

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

I'm debating who has weirder names, the Palin children or the Zappa children. It's hard to figure out how to balance it, since the weirdness baseline for Frank Zappa is obviously different from the baseline for Sarah Palin.

[fredhuggins.livejournal.com]

At least Zappa had the excuse of having treated EVERYTHING in his wacky life like some weird jazzy inside-joke. "Dweezil" sounds like a noise an electric guitar would make, while "Moon Unit" is just cool. Same with Penn Jillette, who defended naming his daughter "Moxy" by arguing "If you want to abuse your kid, name them 'John' or 'Sarah.' Then you're telling your kids, 'you are no different from any of the other millions of miserable schmucks out there.'"

Palin, on the other hand, is just naming her kids after Home Depot products. "Bristol" and "Track" are just goofy names. Goofy names like TODD.

[partiallyclips.livejournal.com]

Interesting, because it adds one policy differentiator (federal ban on gay marriage) between McCain and Bush that I was unaware of. I'm up to five now, out of dozens and dozens. And again, it's another one that having Palin on the ticket mitigates. The others being:

Federal funding of stem cell research
Drilling in ANWR
Allowing waterboarding and other torture
Belief in manmade causes of global warming

Yep, on all 5 issues I can find on which McCain disagrees with Bush, Palin stands with him. Epic fail ticket.

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

Honestly, the innuendo of the subject line is about the only way I would find Sarah Palin interesting. She's just one more fundamentalist redneck, only she's from the Far North rather than the stereotypical home in the Deep South. Had some fools in the Republican campaign not thought to sell her to women and horny old conservatives, the larger populace would have had no more contact with her than a glancing reference in a Wikipedia list of elected officials.

[philady.livejournal.com]

So, let me get this straight... She wants a federal ban on gay marriage, but she wants to leave it up to the states to decide on abortion.