Beyond the Palin

There were two mentions of Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin in the press today that got us thinking. The first was Cintra Wilson's [evisceration] of the Alaskan governor, which called her a "Republican blowup doll," and the second was in Simon Doonan's Fashion Week [column](http://www.observer.com/2008/style/rrrowl-my-couture-romp-ruined-caribou-frau), where he explained that he "expected to see hordes of women snapping up those smart-lady Tina Fey glasses, the very same ones that had endowed Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate for vice president of the United States, with such an air of faux gravitas the night before."

The combination of the two stories put a scary image into our heads....