Does anyone else notice Sarah (gag) Palin's oddly severe

[cilla4progress]

facial expresssion almost always spayed across her face?

There's something harsh and hateful about it. I can't put my finger on it, but it surely communicates something different than when she was an ingenue in 2008. It reflects cynicism, a harsh edge, and is frightening to me.

[kestrel91316]

1. She's letting the mask slip. You're seeing the evil harpy within.

[BlueJazz]

2. She HAS changed.

[Brigid]

22. Looks like a mug shot.

Like somebody arrested for DUI after a hard night of partying.

[Cleita]

3. Somebody who has the callousness and disdain for the pain

and suffering of animals like she does strikes me as a mean person and one who is probably psychotic. It's starting to show on her face. Her basketball team mates called her Sarah Barracuda for a reason. I used to play basketball once too.

[arcane1]

4. 5 years of ass-kissing and publicity can do strange things to simpletons. They believe the hype.

[cilla4progress]

5. It's just the look of

hatefulness.

Eww...go away - forever.

[Journeyman]

6. Nature & chance gives you your face at 20. By 50, you have the face you deserve. . . .

(Apologies to Coco Chanel)

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Spayed. That's funny. Too late. She bred.

The brood continues to procreate, unchecked.

[Midnight Writer]

8. Charming, folksy, flirty, and very mean

This was a description of Palin by a Republican political operative from the book "Game Change". I recall it every time I see her on TV.

[Rozlee]

10. Stephen King called her "Greg Stillson in skirts" in a Salon interview.

[Myrina]

16. Perfect!!

[Delphinus]

21. Like your name!

Conjures up many an image in my mind.

Welcome to DU!

[Rozlee]

9. She looks like she could unhinge her jaw and swallow you head first...

...or like you could turn to stone if you look at her for too long. She might be wearing a wig with a bunch of writhing snakes under it.

[libdem4life]

11. This happens to the God is My Husband group...He is the Boss...You Betcha. She has a terribly

oppressive home situation with all that likely implies. I don't think she's as plastic as it seems...probably just the opposite...but I don't feel sorry for her as it comes with the package.

[pnwest]

12. I see bitterness in that face.

[King_Klonopin]

13. I've never thought of her as "attractive" in any sense of the word.

She has a cold and steely look, with a face like a plastic manikin.
She may look good from far, but she's far from good-looking.

I see a leathery face, like a hardened plaster death-mask. Her
eyes are flat and lifeless. Her mouth is taught and angry. She
reminds me of some Greek mythology character, like a Medusa,
or the "Succubus" from a South Park episode. That cutesy, winky,
"Oh, she's so hot and sexy" reputation was the creation of GOP
image-makers trying to make honey from venom.

Black Widow, Praying Mantis, Medusa, Succubus, Lilith, Ice Bitch,
Cyborg, take your pick of description. She has never struck me as
a soft, sexy or cuddly woman.

[bemildred]

14. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. - Nietzsche

You become what you do.

[Wounded Bear]

15. I see a bad actress becoming her role...

As the old saying goes, and it applies to evil as well as good things, fake it until you make it. She's "made" it.

[Rex]

17. Now that you mention it...I do notice a slight change.

There is something slightly different about her...contact lenses?

[1StrongBlackMan]

18. Does anyone remember the party scene …

In the movie The Devil’s Advocate?

In that scene, Keanu Reeves and his wife are at a party where everyone is absolutely stunningly beautiful … but, the wife keeps seeing flashes of them as horrific demons.

Maybe that explains it?

[pnwmom]

19. Yes! Her inner self is beginning to poke through -- and it's scary. n/t

[Rosa Luxemburg]

20. She has a screw loose

[IDemo]

23. An old but still relevant local column describes her pretty well:

If I were smart, I'd never put the words "Sarah" or "Palin" in the same sentence again. I truly believe her continuing presence in our national awareness is as contrived and ultimately meaningless as John McCain's desperate attempt to invigorate his fizzled-out campaign was when he dropped her in our laps some 15 months ago. The only thing keeping her around is that we are still talking about her. Were we to stop, she would thin out like a dollar store perfume stink and drift away.

Besides, most of us know she'll never be president, don't we? Most of us know she is to human depth what Toby Keith is to music. What cowboy poetry is to poetry. What Chef Boyardee is to fine dining. Most of us know that most of us would have more business being president than she does. Right?

I have struggled to understand why she's still in the nation's eye when there's so little to see. It can't be anything she's said, I tell myself, because everything she says is baloney. It can't be anything she's done, because other than flouncing from one stage to another, she hasn't done anything. It can't be because her ideas are so innovative or overpowering or appealing, because she has no ideas.

I admit, however, she's hard to ignore. For certain Americans, she is the soup du jour. This season's Tickle-Me-Elmo. The lite at the end of the tunnel. She is God speaking to them in an uneasy time, and they don't get that all He's trying to do is tell them a joke.

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[cilla4progress]

24. Well-written!

Though I totally disagree about cowboy poetry..

[lillypaddle]

30. Me, too, cilla

there are some wonderful "cowboy poets."

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

25. John McCain's tombstone should read....

"Thanks a lot, asshole. You know why"

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

26. Well, naturally she's gotten older

But beyond that, her entire life now revolves around hate. Back in Wasilla, she could spend her days being the Harper Valley PTA mean girl, cluck clucking down those she hates, but doing it 9 to 5. Now she's a 24/7 machine....a shark endlessly swimming in search of blood money. From wackos in Iowa and Alabama who speak in tongues to the dudes down in the basement photo shopping her head onto cougar porn. She is lost in an endless cycle of grift. Fuck her, her family, John McCain and her minions. The idiot culture won when she was thrust on the stage to national prominence.

[Skittles]

27. she has so many fillers she's like a pillow with glasses

there is nothing genuine about that gal other than her ignorance

[MADem]

28. She looks medically non-compliant to me. nt

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

29. I've never found her particularly attractive and have never understood why people do.

And it has nothing to do with her politics, as there are plenty of conservative women that I do find very beautiful.

I think Palin is hard in the face. She has very hard features, not soft, feminine features.

The gorgeous, black woman who beat her in the beauty contest beat her for a reason: she was truly beautiful! Sarah, in my opinion, is not.

[PassingFancy]

31. I see a bitter middle-aged woman in her face now