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Now, THAT’s sophisticated!

November 19, 2009 by Brigitte Pellerin 8 Comments

David Frum, about Sarah Palin:

This is a woman who has got into a position of leadership by sending very powerful sexual signals. And we see that in the way that men like her much more than women do.

I dunno, eh? I’m a woman and I like Sarah Palin. I know many other women who like her, too. Mark Steyn notes that “when I saw her campaign in N.H., I was surrounded by moms with strollers.” I’m not saying men who like Sarah Palin haven’t noticed that she is, not to put too fine a point on it, a woman who’s quite pleasant to look at. But come on. I’m willing to bet there are hundreds of thousands of women, if not millions of women, who think Barack Obama is attractive. Do analysts claim he got into a position of leadership by sending very powerful sexual signals?

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Andrea adds: I plan on doing a Palin post soon since I’m in the US of A and seeing quite a lot of book tour coverage. For now I’ll just add that I’m not as convinced as I once was that she is President material. But neither do I feel it necessary to incessantly malign her, as apparently some others do. On a related note, and speaking of American coverage, Frum was on CNN last night, attacked from all sides (something about Fort Hood). He held up well; was certainly the most rational one on an annoying, loudmouth panel.

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  1. Hanam says

    November 19, 2009 at 10:25 pm

    What has happened to David Frum lately?
    There was a time when he seemed to be objective.
    Why is his favorite subject lately to belittle Sara Palin?

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  2. Julie Culshaw says

    November 20, 2009 at 7:23 am

    Oh yeah, and her sexual signals were precisely, I am a woman with a brain and a heart, a wife with a pretty good-looking husband, a mother with five children.
    If those are sexual symbols, David Frum has been living in a world devoid of what makes a woman a woman.

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  3. Elizabeth says

    November 20, 2009 at 11:21 am

    Oh please don’t defend Frum, Andrea! He has shown himself to be a first-class misogynist jerk in my books.

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  4. El says

    November 20, 2009 at 12:14 pm

    If what Frum says is correct, it doesn’t say a lot for men really.

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  5. Elena says

    November 22, 2009 at 8:15 am

    Has anyone seen the Sarah Palin shot on the cover of Newsweek? Sarah Palin in shorts looking like she is prepping for a run? Her legginess was taken as another sexual signal on her part; however, in her defence, she claims that it was supposed to be for Runner’s World. I do believe her and am impressed by how unfazed she is by the potshots taken against her. Also, I wouldn’t mind having her legs…

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  6. Mol says

    November 23, 2009 at 11:17 am

    Oh, come on people. SP’s looks have everything to do with the attention she has gotten from and her “likability” by both males and females. It certainly cannot be the content of her communications (mangled English at best).

    If she looked like Susan Boyle or Madeleine Albright, she would have been mostly ignored in the media and would have been relegated to the dustbin of history after the election.

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  7. Flaggman says

    November 26, 2009 at 12:36 am

    If you buy into the myth that Sarah Palin is only appealing because of her sexuality, you’ve fallen into a trap set by the worst elements of the left. Please read “The Wilding of Sarah Palin” at American Thinker:

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/the_wilding_of_sarah_palin.html

    It shouldn’t be so hard to understand why Palin is popular: she stands stongly for fiscal sanity, American strength, the Pursuit of Happiness, community, faith, liberty and life – all in an authentic way, unseen since Reagan. Why David Frum has made it his personal mission to demean her on a daily basis, I’ll never know.

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  8. JazzFest says

    August 27, 2013 at 2:56 am

    I think it’s sexist to claim that her attractiveness is the only reason she is popular. So any woman considered conventionally attractive has nothing else to offer the world except her appearance…

    Really?!?

    I don’t care much for her but if she inspires people, then let it be…

    (I found a book of hers at a library sale and it will be interesting to read it.)

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