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A smiling John McCain crushed under Palin's high-heeled shoe.

Nice illustration by Barry Blitt (the artist who did the famous Michelle-and-Barack New Yorker cover).

The accompanying column, by Frank Rich, is not Palin-friendly:

But the debate?s most telling passage arrived when Biden welled up in recounting his days as a single father after his first wife and one of his children were killed in a car crash. Palin?s perky response ? she immediately started selling McCain as a ?consummate maverick? again ? was as emotionally disconnected as Michael Dukakis?s notoriously cerebral answer to the hypothetical 1988 debate question about his wife being ?raped and murdered.? If, as some feel, Obama is cool, Palin is ice cold. She didn?t even acknowledge Biden?s devastating personal history.

The bitch! Hey, wait, does that mean she's cerebral now?

... She has more testosterone than anyone else at the top of her party.

And a guy.

Palin is an antidote to the whiny Republican image that [Barney] Frank nailed.

Frank's column is full of sexual imagery, but I think that one was unintentional. (And, by the way, the Blitt illustration is arguably sexual.)

You have to wonder how long it will be before [Republicans] plead with [McCain] to think of his health, get out of the way and pull the ultimate stunt of flipping the ticket. Palin, we can be certain, wouldn?t even blink.

Full post as published by Althouse on October 05, 2008 (boomark / email).