I’ll confess.  I think Sarah Louise Heath Palin, who happens to be the first female governor of the great state of Alaska, is the foxiest politician I’ve seen in my lifetime.  My wife of 41 years doesn’t even blink anymore when I mention that fact.

Would I vote for her as president of the United States because she’s attractive?  Not bloody likely, even if she were a replication of Britney Spears or Carrie Prejean.  If she resembled Judge Sonia Sotomayor, it would be even more bloody unlikely.

Palin’s looks are not the issue, or shouldn’t be.  What is an issue in 2009–and which will be an issue in 2012– is not the reincarnation of J.D. Salinger’s dirty old man, in the person of dirty old Dave Letterman, or Palin’s looks but whether Dyke-World can overcome its revulsion over attractive women who aren’t lesbians. 

It will be a challenge; most who flock to Dyke World more closely resemble Betty Friedan   than Mrs. Palin.   Brains and success, and Palin has both in spades, appeal to the lez set, but attractiveness seems to be a contraindicator for acceptance for most feminazis.

Make no mistake, the libs, the gays, the lesbians, and the Democrats, which is a redundancy, are terrified of Governor Sarah Palin and Letterman is nothing but a water carrier for that whole crew.  Letterman’s crudities are almost irrelevant.  What is worth emphasis is the atmosphere in which Dirty Dave and his writers feel free to dump on Palin. 

It’s the same prevailing atmosphere which allows attacks on a beauty queen for being honest about gay marriage, which mandates the persecution of a radio shock jock for letting slip a dumb racial slur, and which hounded a sports commentator twenty or so years ago who was fired by CBS for praising Black athletes’ slave-derived athleticism. 

To liberals today there are various levels of discriminatory language, acceptable, marginal, and totally objectionable, and they determine the parameters of each category.  The Left, for example, has twisted words and language to such an extent that the term “reproductive rights” now has no relation to reproduction but rather to aborting life.

Letterman’s inane “jokes,” referring to the governor of Alaska as a slut and to her daughter being knocked-up way out in right field at Yankee Stadium are in a class with Wanda Sykes’ “humorous” wish that Rush Limbaugh die of kidney failure.  That brand of ”humor” so tickled Obama’s funny bone that he all but peed his pants when he heard it.  The rest of the lib establishment either condoned or ignored it.

Incredibly, Letterman’s entire defense of his knocked-up crack was that he was referring to Bristol Palin who, since she was 18 and, to feminist dismay, had chosen to bear her child out of wedlock instead of aborting the baby.  She thereby violated the First Commandment of liberal theology, Thou shalt abort inconvenient babies.  Their Second Commandment is, Thou shalt abort any baby if you don’t want it, inconvenient or no. 

Never would Dirty Dave refer to 14 year old Willow Palin in such a way.  Not Dave! That would be statutory rape!  It was just hunky dorey, however, to make light of Bristol being raped by Alex Rodriquez.   I assume, Dirty Dave considered her a fallen woman already and so, who knows, maybe it was consensual. 

It was Willow Palin and not Bristol Palin who accompanied her mother and Rudy Giuliani to the Yankee game but, hey, ya seen one Palin girl, ya seen ‘em all.  They all look alike, right, Mr. Letterman?

As for his “slutty flight attendant” witticism about Governor Palin, he did sort of apologize for that and will probably not joke about Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton being sluts, unless one of their daughters gets knocked-up out in left field in the Stadium.

No doubt Dirty Dave, who didn’t marry his son Harry’s mother until the boy was five, after “dating” Regina Lasko for 22 years, thought he could skate with his wiseass remarks, just as he skated through those 22 years with the remarkably unattractive Regina.  I’m betting he got an ironclad pre-nup in that deal.

After all, Sykes got away with her viciousness and feminist groups didn’t like Mrs. Palin anyway and for sure they would cover his skinny ass or at least stand mute, which they did.  More reputable people, however, did speak out against Letterman, including the governor herself.

Just the other day on the “Today” show, she cited a fact of life, namely that her daughters, any daughters, should be off limits in political discussions and as subjects of late-night comedians: http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/06/12/sarah-palin-on-today-obama-girls-off-limits-why-arent-mine/?icid=main|htmlws-main|dl5|link4|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicsdaily.com%2F2009%2F06%2F12%2Fsarah-palin-on-today-obama-girls-off-limits-why-arent-mine%2F.

“Today’s” smarmy Matt Lauer actually defended fellow ignoramus Letterman and, to her credit, Governor Palin didn’t deck him, merely calling him naive.   Then he tried to divert the blame by asking her, if her “response to Letterman, that he couldn’t be trusted around Willow, was in bad taste, Palin said, ‘Take it however you want to take it,’ “ a polite way of telling Lauer, “Tough, and shove it!”

Kudos to the governor! 

I seem to recall the Clintons’ complaining back in ‘93 that Chelsea shouldn’t be a target of any commentary because of her looks or for anything else and the jibes ended.  Obama declared early on that his two daughters should not be critiqued. 

As Governor Palin noted, he said, ”Family’s off limits, do not talk about my family,” and again, obediently, no one did.  An exception was rightly made for his wife, Michelle, who had said things political, such as finally being proud of America, which made her very political and a fair target.

What’s going to happen to Dirty Dave?  Will he be fired like Miss California, Imus, and Jimmy the Greek were for their remarks?  Or will he be given a free ride, like Wanda Sykes? 

With the language distortions and prevailing political correctness in this country today, he will probably be granted a waiver because he was harassed by a rabid pit bull and the National Organization for Women will declare him NOW’s Man of the Year.  

And what will happen to Sarah Palin?  With any luck, she will overcome her good looks and the N.O.W. gang and become the 45th president of the United States in 2012.  I hope she appoints Bristol as television czarina.