Steve just called for his morning check-in to see how the kids got off to school this morning. Somehow Sarah Palin came up in our discussion. I have no idea how we segued from "the funny thing that Ian said" to Sarah Palin, but there you go. We have an odd relationship, but it works for us.
Anyhoo, Steve mentioned a fabulous line about Sarah Palin's charisma. A couple of years ago, Rich Lowry from the National Review wrote about Palin's "starburst effect."
I’m sure I’m not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, “Hey, I think she just winked at me.” And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America. This is a quality that can’t be learned; it’s either something you have or you don’t, and man, she’s got it.
God, I have to stop writing posts about Palin. I'm so Andrew Sullivan this week.
Apt. 11d 
Normally I would say that God does not love the Democrats enough to give them Sarah Palin to run against. But then I look and see that Obama drew Alan Keyes in his first election for US Senate.
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Because the guy who was married to Seven-of-Nine was a perv, if I recall correctly. That was a lucky break for him.
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Wisdom from TMBG: “A woman came up to me and said, ‘I’d like to poison your mind with wrong ideas that appeal to you though I am not unkind…'”
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Palin is a babe. Been a babe for years-and-years. She will soon be heading into ‘well-preserved’ territory, though – I mean, Sophia Loren held on to ‘babe’ for a staggeringly long time, but that’s not usual, and I think it’s not Sarah Palin. I don’t think her starburst appeal is good for more than a few more years, probably 2012 it will be there, likely not 2016.
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