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Sexist Mitt Romney Calls Sarah Palin ‘Beautiful’

Beautifully influential, that is!Most people, if asked, can say a lot of things about Sarah Palin: she’s snowbilly trash, human garbage, a religious nutball who protects the American airspace from Putin’s rearing head, a fake celebrity, a proudly ignorant “mean girl” who never should have won a promotion beyond head of her local neighborhood association, etc. But most politicians, if asked, cannot say any of these true things, so they fall back on what they believe to be an innocuous remark about her looks.

On Sunday, Mitt Romney suggested that Sarah Palin was “beautiful.” This was very sexist, because everybody knows Palin is famous for being a thinker and a statesman, not for being, say, the most attractive female pro-life Republican governor available to give the McCain ticket some “juice.”

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney joked about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s place on Time’s list of influential people, saying, “But was that the issue on the most beautiful people or the most influential people?”

In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” broadcast Sunday, Romney was responding to a question from the moderator as to whether Time’s inclusion of Palin and talk show host Rush Limbaugh on their list of “The World’s Most Influential People” was a positive or negative thing for the Republican Party.

Set aside for a moment the very important questions of whether Rush Limbaugh is also one of the most beautiful people in the world. Doesn’t Romney sound quite a bit like the incorrigible sexist Joe Biden? Just last summer Biden said this:

“There’s a gigantic difference between John McCain and Barack Obama and between me and I suspect my vice presidential opponent,” Biden said at an outdoor rally Sunday, getting ready to hit the GOP ticket for their economic policies.

“She’s good-looking,” he quipped.

Conclusion: Romney is a secret DEMONcrap, which we all knew anyway.

Romney Suggests Palin ‘Beautiful,’ Not Influential [Newsmax]
Biden: Palin’s good-looking [Political Ticker]


9:31 AM on Tue May 5 2009
By Sara K. Smith
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  1. tsunami says at 9:34 am, May 5th, 2009

    ah…but none of them tell the truth. they beat around the bush, [so to speak],
    when a simple, “I’d do her,” would suffice.

  2. hockeymom says at 9:35 am, May 5th, 2009

    But SO, SO ugly on the inside.

  3. smartypants says at 9:35 am, May 5th, 2009

    Mittens/Bible Spice 2012!!11!!!

  4. Czn939 says at 9:36 am, May 5th, 2009

    didn’t m00t win Time’s #1 most influential person this year?
    4chan FTW!

  5. Numbat Dundee says at 9:36 am, May 5th, 2009

    Do Demons crap mormons? It sort of makes sense, when you think about it.

  6. tsunami says at 9:37 am, May 5th, 2009

    hockeymom:

    SO, SO true.

  7. Cape Clod says at 9:38 am, May 5th, 2009

    Of course she is influential. She induced John McCain to destroy the Republican Party by picking her to be his running mate.

  8. Numbat Dundee says at 9:38 am, May 5th, 2009

    Do demons crap Mormons then? Is that what you’re saying?

  9. teh_heysoos says at 9:39 am, May 5th, 2009

    SKS, can we get a zoom on the picture? Is this the one where she has the nasty herp sore on her lip?

  10. ZiPPerHEaD says at 9:40 am, May 5th, 2009

    Sure, she’s pretty…

    …but, she’d be beautiful with my nutz on her chin!

  11. SayItWithWookies says at 9:41 am, May 5th, 2009

    She’s never so beautiful as when she’s talking nonsense while a turkey is being beheaded in the background. Mona Lisa eat your giblets out.

  12. charlesdegoal says at 9:41 am, May 5th, 2009

    Millions of Russian hookers and all of Berlusconi’s mistresses are far more beautiful than Palin and none of them has ever heard of Rush Limbaugh (or would want to fuck him, for that matter).

  13. My eyes grow weary of such beauty. She could make herself invisible. Just a suggestion.

  14. SmutBoffin says at 9:43 am, May 5th, 2009

    Huh, breeders think fecundity is teh Hott, I guess. Mitt went on to say:

    “That lady also knows her monosyllabic baby names — just like me!”

    “She has all the fiscal sense of a mormon with a fraudulent personality running for office.”

    “Nice rack.”

  15. Terry says at 9:44 am, May 5th, 2009

    That photo of her in the ads that run along the side of Wonkette look like she’s in about to announce she uses the Bump It hair gadget.

  16. ManchuCandidate says at 9:44 am, May 5th, 2009

    If I didn’t know about her or hear her speak or now of her crazy hillbilly family or her vindictive krazee then I’d want to hit that.

    In leadership terms, bang-ability, er, going by on one’s looks really is futile as pushing for affirmative action in the KKK or handing out abstinence pamphlets at a Porn Shoot. Unfortunately for everyone, idiots seeing starbursts, uh, the average GOP voter, fall for it.

  17. karen says at 9:45 am, May 5th, 2009

    Her lips in that picture remind me of Angelina Jolie. Perhaps she now wants to be like Angelina so she got assfat injections into her lips. Soon, it wont be adoptions, but instead she’ll have 9 children at the completely biologically and morally appropriate age of 45.

    OctoBilly/Bachmann 2012!!!1!1!eleventy

  18. nonbeliever7 says at 9:45 am, May 5th, 2009

    tsunami: yeah but only if she had duct tape on her mouth.

  19. Also, if el Rushbo is tryin’ to recruit Palin for his Sail Barge, rock on I say.

  20. Suds McKenzie says at 9:46 am, May 5th, 2009

    tsunami: “I’d do her,” would suffice., Word, but in three years? Gravity, like rust, never sleeps.

    then what does she have?

  21. smartypants says at 9:48 am, May 5th, 2009

    Big Love, starring:

    Mittens (husband) and his wives–Sarahpac Shakira, Michelle Crazyeyes and Rush Limbaugh as the (surprise!)pregnant third wife.

  22. Bruno says at 9:48 am, May 5th, 2009

    What about lipstick on a pig? Or will this somehow insult the swine farmers & slaughterers?

  23. hockeymom says at 9:52 am, May 5th, 2009

    Terry: Ha! Though I think Palin is more a regular at the Wasilla Busy Bee Hair Hive, where they back-comb the bejebus out of her head.

  24. The Legend of TeaBagger Vance says at 9:52 am, May 5th, 2009

    i’d like to do some fudge packing on a snow machine with those two, you betcha. also, too.

  25. stumpycuse says at 9:57 am, May 5th, 2009

    TGY: Would that make him Limbaugh the Hutt?

  26. Hawaiiexpat says at 10:01 am, May 5th, 2009

    Mitt and Sarah
    Sitting in a tree
    K-I-S-S-I-N-G

    First comes love
    Then comes marriage
    then comes Joe the Plumber
    in a baby carriage.

  27. stumpycuse: Yes. Yes it would.

  28. zenferret says at 10:14 am, May 5th, 2009

    Suds McKenzie: Herpes? Crabs?

  29. Baritone46 says at 10:15 am, May 5th, 2009

    She’s kinda pretty, kinda hot on the outside, in stasis. But as soon as her mouth starts moving, she’s one of the ugliest people around. I think this comment suggests that perhaps Mitt Romney sees people as 2-dimensional avatars. At least people that aren’t wearing their garments.

  30. smartypants says at 10:18 am, May 5th, 2009

    Prayer to Teh Lego Jesus/Buff Yellow Armless Florida Car Tag Jeebus:

    Oh hear my prayer, Lego/Armless one.

    May this endless stream of cartoon drama also known as the Republican Party (also)just come down over this great great great great great country and just bless each and every demoncrap who believeth in thee (thees?)…

    And Jesus/Jeebus? Could you also allow Teh Great Ozbo to live longer than expected by his team of ’science’ people? Teh Bitterz will haz a sad if he should spontaneously combust as predicted, and the sadness will dampen the crazy, and the lack of crazy will dampen the happys of teh godless demoncraps, and then we will all haz a sad.

    For we have seen the beautiful mountainous vistas where the windmills of the minds of the prayer warriors of the seven mountains of the apocalypse gallop toward each other to mate in heaven. And it is AWESOME. So we’d like some more of that, too. Also.

    And one more thing, Jeesbus: Could you bring back blackberry citrus Fresca?

    IN YOUR NAME(S),

    Smartypants

  31. WadISay says at 10:23 am, May 5th, 2009

    Shouldn’t you be using the Mitt with a fudge glove picture on this?

  32. El Pinche says at 10:24 am, May 5th, 2009

    The beautiful people, the beautiful people,
    Its all relative to the size of your steeple.

  33. McDuff says at 10:29 am, May 5th, 2009

    Mitt better be careful — if keeps insulting the Snow Queen he may find himself shoved into a crab pot and dumped overboard in the Bering Sea. Talk about “Deadliest Catch!”

  34. Leopolt says at 10:36 am, May 5th, 2009

    (Checking watch to see if this bitch’s fifteen minutes are up yet…)

  35. Advocatus_Diaboli says at 10:41 am, May 5th, 2009

    starbursts in the magic underpants?

  36. Johnny Zhivago says at 10:42 am, May 5th, 2009

    Terry: And I bet she walks around the house in Wasilla in a Splanket while she mops up Trig, Tripp and Tropps pees with a Sham-wow.

  37. EatMoreHummus says at 10:44 am, May 5th, 2009

    I’d hit it….from a helicopter.

  38. AxmxZ says at 10:44 am, May 5th, 2009

    She’s not as hot as any of Barack’s Beauties, that’s for sure.

  39. gjdodger says at 10:45 am, May 5th, 2009

    Baritone46: There’s nothing wrong with her mouth moving. It’s the screeching noises that come out of it that make me want to, as National Lampoon once said, “saw off my schween with a rusty razor.”

  40. Come here a minute says at 10:52 am, May 5th, 2009

    You forgot grifter, snowbilly grifter. Classic.

  41. TimesUp says at 10:53 am, May 5th, 2009

    I don’t car how statesman-like or foreign policy literate Palin becomes. Everytime I see her I flash to that video of the full-glossolalia, African witch doctor exorcizing demons from her in that Wasilla Assembly of God church where she receive her indoctrination. It was a beautiful experience, I’m sure.

  42. nappyduggs says at 10:54 am, May 5th, 2009

    Mitt Romney’s evil honesty clone quote on why Sarah Palin is the future of America: “She’s an arguably upstanding woman with an unarguably sideways vagina. Mo’babies, mo’ babies [raise the roof]“

  43. Rush calls Palin “the most prominent, articulate voice for standard, run-of-the-mill, good old-fashioned American conservatism” per CNN.

    Four more years!!!

  44. Cape Clod says at 10:56 am, May 5th, 2009

    WadISay: That picture will never get old.

  45. Prommie says at 10:59 am, May 5th, 2009

    zenferret: Nothing worse than crabs in your eyebrows. Thats probably why she plucked them and had replacement eyebrows tatooed on.

  46. dijetlo says at 10:59 am, May 5th, 2009

    MITT!!!!
    Your coveting another mans ass!
    I think that’s #2 on the list of no!
    You’ll be wishing you never started sniffing after that frost-bitten pu-tang when your down in the burnie place having teh buttseks with the Demoncraps!
    Come home to Utah, Mittens where there are a passel of 12 and 13 year old girls ready to marry you and whelp your your offspring instead of finishing middle school. Don’t give into evil Mitt, god only want you to bang small children, not some frozen reindeer muffin from the far north!!!!

  47. Origami says at 11:16 am, May 5th, 2009

    Mittens is just upset because no one noticed his new tie.

  48. OReillysVibrator says at 11:17 am, May 5th, 2009

    The Legend of TeaBagger Vance: whats ur photo there?

  49. Custerwolf says at 11:18 am, May 5th, 2009

    Maybe Mitt meant “beautiful” in the same way I would say that word upon seeing one of the dogs has eaten my underwear, one of the cats has puked up a hairball in the bathroom sink, and I’ve just stepped in a tremendously squishy pile of horseshit on my way back to the trailer after the morning feeding. In which case, Mitt, I couldn’t agree with you more.

  50. uncletravelingmatt says at 11:20 am, May 5th, 2009

    Mittens is just jealous because he’s no longer the pretty one.

  51. Rosie Scenario says at 11:23 am, May 5th, 2009

    Not beautiful. Not Tina Fey. She looks like Peggy Hill.

  52. Custerwolf says at 11:32 am, May 5th, 2009
  53. hobospacejunkie says at 11:33 am, May 5th, 2009

    Forgive Mitt, he can’t help himself. He gets teh bonerz imagining Snowbilly covered head to toe in teh majik underwearz. It makes him want to touch himself and say teh stupids on CNN.

  54. stolichnayaaa says at 11:33 am, May 5th, 2009

    Going by the sidebar ad, the people at SarahPAC intend to carve an Alaska-shaped hole out of the Plains region. Which would pretty clearly drain and collect any rain, runoff, or standing water west of the Mississippi, including THE GREAT SALT LAKE.

    QED

  55. Rascalcat says at 11:36 am, May 5th, 2009

    As soon as Guv Palin said she was joining the GOP “All White Guy” re-branding effort, I started a pool on first cat-fight between her and Mittens. Does this count as first?

  56. Larry McAwful says at 11:43 am, May 5th, 2009

    Admittedly I don’t know much at all about how business and advertising purchasing works. But I have to say I’m a little baffled that SarahPAC is advertising on this of all sites. If there’s any way for anyone to track it, I’m sure we’ll never find out, but I’m curious to know how much money SarahPAC’s ad on Wonkette actually pulls in.

    Are they maybe doing this so they can write it off as a tax loss or something? Can PACs even do that?

  57. Clungebuster Jones says at 12:04 pm, May 5th, 2009

    Hey would somebody be kind enough to tell me where the ‘also’ thing came from? Yes, I’m a new poster, and yes I know I’m a dumb. Also.

  58. smartypants says at 12:04 pm, May 5th, 2009

    Larry McAwful: I thought Wonkette made money every time we click on that goofy thing. Someone?

  59. Citizen Kang says at 12:09 pm, May 5th, 2009

    I find it very ironic that pretty-pretty Romney would play the “looks” card. This is the man out of central casting who could cut cheese with with Bruce Campbell movie star chin.

  60. the problem child says at 12:18 pm, May 5th, 2009

    Custerwolf: How did you train your cat to throw up hairballs in the sink? (See, life could be more “beautiful”.)

  61. the problem child says at 12:20 pm, May 5th, 2009

    Clungebuster Jones: That would be a Palin verbal tic that a lot of us never got over being exposed to, also, too. *banging head on desk*

  62. Lascauxcaveman says at 12:21 pm, May 5th, 2009

    Suds McKenzie: “I’d do her,” would suffice. Word, but in three years? Gravity, like rust, never sleeps. then what does she have?

    This is a sad fact. My own wife, who is a few scant months younger than Gov Snowbilly, and who has cranked out a few gerbs of her own, looks great with the right clothes/hair/makeup on. But underneath, its all just starting to fall apart.

    I practically beg this woman to get some exercise; come on a run or bike ride with me, even go for a walk after dinner, but to no avail. And I stand by helplessly as she slowly, inexorably turns into her mother.

    *shudder*

  63. Custerwolf says at 12:23 pm, May 5th, 2009

    the problem child: Awww….thanks for the reminder. My day’s already starting to look better.

  64. Custerwolf says at 12:26 pm, May 5th, 2009

    Lascauxcaveman: I’m hoping I turn into my mother. At 71 she’s still hot (my Joe always says he’d do her) and she’s one of THE funniest people I know. But yeah, you definitely have to keep active I think.

  65. dijetlo says at 12:26 pm, May 5th, 2009

    smartypants: Two kinds of ads, click-thru or commissions. If it’s click thru we can support our Wonkette by touching Saras privates for a little “Sara-packing”, if it’s commission you have to give her money for our Wonkette to profit.
    The reasons it’s here, I’d guess, is this is a political site. If you look at the web traffic in and out of here, it looks appealing to the folks at Sarapac. Wonkette links to RNC and conservative sites all the time and the viewers click through to read and laugh. The web statistics don’t track laughter though, only traffic.

  66. engulfedinflames says at 12:29 pm, May 5th, 2009

    Lascauxcaveman: you’re lucky, mine’s turning into her obese mooney brother. still sweet though.

  67. Accordion-o-rama says at 12:29 pm, May 5th, 2009

    Rascalcat: Mmmmm - Sarah, Mittens and a branding iron. Be still my beating heart!

  68. RabidHamster says at 12:40 pm, May 5th, 2009

    Custerwolf: You’re listing the ingredients in Sarah’s Wasilla foundation, correct? If so, you forgot the pig-poo, which has excellent anti-shine characteristics.

  69. Lascauxcaveman says at 12:48 pm, May 5th, 2009

    dijetlo: Larry McAwful: Also, since this site blabs so many column inches (to use the ancient phrase) about Sara Palin, this is causing the Googles to send ads here, assuming a significant number of readers here are interested in spending money on Sarah Palin.

    It’s like when you type “Sarah Palin” in to the googles, you get those links off to the right side of the screen that invite you to:

    “Shop For SARAH PALIN?

    Order SARAH PALIN now.

    On-line discounts on SARAH PALIN?

    Best deals on SARAH PALIN?

    Lowest prices on SARAH PALIN, shipped directly from Canada.”

  70. Scottie says at 1:08 pm, May 5th, 2009

    Yes, like Romney would be anywhere without his well crafted visage and his gorgeous wife?

    Oh, and the children who are so not white trash.

  71. dijetlo says at 1:11 pm, May 5th, 2009

    Lascauxcaveman:
    Wonkette.com is a top 5,000 site and No. 63 Technorati blog that reaches over 1 million monthly unique visitors, 88% of which are in the U.S. The site is wildly popular among a mostly male, very affluent and well educated adult crowd. The typical visitor reads Gawker and subscribes to the Economist and Vanity Fair.

    They’s pimpin’ us.
    “The site is wildly popular among a mostly male, very affluent and well educated adult crowd.”
    and they’s lying about it too….

  72. engulfedinflames says at 1:21 pm, May 5th, 2009

    dijetlo: AFFLUENT11!!!1!!!1!1!!!!!!!

  73. mylesfromnowhere says at 1:33 pm, May 5th, 2009

    I had to check but yep, I’m mostly male. Got that part right anyway.

  74. dijetlo says at 1:39 pm, May 5th, 2009

    engulfedinflames: I think they meant to “effluent” dawg.
    We aint likely affluent, but we sure as hell are effluent.

  75. Accordion-o-rama says at 1:57 pm, May 5th, 2009
  76. Violenza says at 2:03 pm, May 5th, 2009

    Ah, jealousy, much like Putin, rears its ugly head. Mitt’s hatin’ cause she’s got better (?)bronzer and higher hair.

  77. engulfedinflames says at 2:11 pm, May 5th, 2009

    dijetlo: ahhhh, thanx for the clarification,makes some kind of sense now.

  78. Itsjustme says at 2:20 pm, May 5th, 2009

    And I shall call Mittens…. BLIND!

  79. El Pinche says at 2:39 pm, May 5th, 2009

    El Pinche: Revising ..

    he beautiful people, the beautiful people,
    Its all relative to the size of your sheeple.

  80. dijetlo: OK, that means that exactly one (1) reader of this site must be extremely, obscenely wealthy, in order to average out all of us broke losers.

  81. MeDigEm says at 3:01 pm, May 5th, 2009

    Ha! She looks like a grooper in that picture. Phew, good thing we threw that one back.

  82. BlueStateLibtard says at 9:30 pm, May 5th, 2009

    cal: Yes, for every 100 of us there’s one very wealthy person who probably can afford to subscribe to the Economist and Vanity Fair, and doesn’t subsist on hobo beans. I sincerely ask this person, from one loyal Wonkette reader to another: can I borrow some money?

  83. Custerwolf says at 9:46 pm, May 5th, 2009

    cal: Can that person please identify themselves and leave their phone number with me? Thanks. You won’t be sorry.

  84. Tzalldeuteronomy says at 10:43 pm, May 5th, 2009

    Baritone46: “Mitt Romney sees people as 2-dimensional avatars. At least people that aren’t wearing their garments”

    Romney is a 2D avatar … without garments… spongy smokiness mirrors in de backa da headroom, max.

  85. buggers says at 11:45 pm, May 5th, 2009

    Clungebuster Jones: thank you, I’ve been afraid to ask for months. :)

  86. buggers says at 11:52 pm, May 5th, 2009

    dijetlo: Yeah, who are these people? I’m living off Barry Obama’s funemployment munnies, and female… (aren’t we all)… but I do read gawker too… Vanity Fair is booooring though.

  87. Well, CLEARLY Mitt is as AFRAID of her as WE ALL ARE!!! No one would say ANYTHING about her if they weren´t terryFIED of Sarah………….

    Sarah Palin-Tonya Harding 2012!
    JENNY JONES is gonna make a great Secretary of state!

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