Obama's proposition was spot on--that for the Republicans to pose as agents of change, given her Pentecostal convictions and his new-found loyalty to the Rovian hierarchy, is hypocritical, just as "putting mascara on a wolverine" would be, to use a more Alaskan version of the same metaphor.

Or "putting rouge on a Tanzanian devil". It will still stand there, looking mean and smelling bad, as an Aussie friend of mine once put it.


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