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Sexual Politics of Sarah Palin: Sex Sells, Even with Anti-Sex Authoritarians
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Conservatives don’t choose representatives like Sarah Palin by accident. They know what they are doing, and it’s not simply the knowledge that putting a pleasant face on a product helps make the product more attractive. John McCain and his campaign revealed that they knew what they were doing when they registered the domain name “VoteForTheMILF.org” and directed to the Sarah Palin page on McCain’s campaign site (until they were caught, that is). Her campaign theme song had been at one point Shania Twain’s “She’s Not Just a Pretty Face,” but seems to have been changed to Stevie Wonder’s “Isn’t She Lovely? At least they don’t go so far as to drape her in revealing clothing, but that’s not necessary.
Pundits and voters like Rich Lowry are clearly getting the message when they imagine that Sarah Palin is winking at them personally. Even if they aren’t actually masturbating to images of Sarah Palin, sexual fantasies are being tied to sexual repression in a manner that must make the authoritarian repression of sex seem sexually attractive in itself.
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