Maybe Looks Are Everything

This is from Salon, via Cyndee:

Clearly, the Alaska governor's charisma and highly glossed image have made a splash. At the laundromat in Luverne, Minn., Gerald Hayman, 48, who used to work for a company that picks up and disposes of dead farm animals, but is currently unemployed, shared his opinions while folding his clothes. Hayman doesn't like McCain's talk of an open-ended commitment in Iraq, and fondly remembers the way "Bill Clinton brought the economy up," so he'd been leaning toward punching the Democratic ticket. But Palin has made him rethink that choice. "She don't mind stepping on people's toes, and maybe Washington needs that," Hayman said. He added, "And she's got a pretty nice pair of legs on her."

At the Powder River Stockman's Club in Broadus, Mont., a town of 451 people with no less than three taxidermists, S. Samuelson, 55, a second-generation rancher, tips his cowboy hat, nods and says: "She's hot." Between tales of breaking horses and negotiating the sale of calves, Samuelson admitted that he was very impressed by Palin, and said he even wished that she was running for president instead of McCain, whom he doesn't like.

Monday, September 22, 2008