I can see Russia from my house!

[ksmith]

64 years ago, someone (the source is questionable) referred to presidential candidate Thomas E Dewey, a short man with a mustache and a stiff way of holding himself, as looking like "the bridegroom on the wedding cake." Up to that time, Dewey had been expected to beat Harry Truman, but some people felt that that comment poked a hole and let just enough air out of his image to drive some folks over to Truman. The election will be close, and anything can happen, but if McCain/Palin lose, I wonder if someone will look back at Tina Fey's spot-on impersonation of Palin and look at the polls and determine that the air started leaking out of the image around that time. Granted, I was never a fan, but I can't look at that woman now without hearing "I can see Russia from my house!"

Comments

[affinity8.livejournal.com]

"I can see Russia from my house" is a classic. I love that SNL skit to pieces.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I don't think SNL is going to affect the people who would vote for her anyway.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I've been seeing clips all over cable TV, though. That was one reason, I believe, why the McCain campaign trotted out Carly Fiorina to condemn the skit as "sexist". Carly Fiorina, who Hewlett Packard paid to go away.

Don't the Republicans have any *competent* women on their team who they can trot out at times like these?

[lmarley.livejournal.com]

You'll enjoy this: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/opinion/17dowd.html?ref=opinion

Maureen Dowd has the perfect touch.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Dowd has bugged me on occasion, but that was good.

[equesgal.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've been seeing that a lot on TV too. And yeah...this is gonna be a close one.