Sarah Palin, hockey pit bull?

[ellid]

I didn't hear the whole speech, but Sarah Palin evidently said that "the only difference between hockey moms and pit bull is lipstick."

*blinks*

That joke was first used against Bonnie Lindros, mother of hockey star Eric Lindros, by disgruntled Quebecois when Lindros refused to play for the Nordiques and forced a trade to the Philadelphia Flyers. She was widely seen as a nasty, overbearing, and (yes) bitchy "stage mother" who was interfering in her son's career. Sarah Palin surely knows this, being an amateur athlete and the mother of a hockey player. Why is she reviving a misogynistic and not particularly funny joke and using it against herself?

I really want to know.

Comments

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

To prove she's one of the boys, perhaps? To show that she's not an elitist crybaby, but can poke fun at herself?

[tetsubinatu.livejournal.com]

Maybe she doesn't think that being a pit bull is a bad thing, especially in her current situation? I'm not American so my perspective may be different, though.

[briony530.livejournal.com]

For the same reason she continues to preach abstinence only over the head of her pregnant 17-year-old. These people are not in possession of logic. Or maybe we just can't see it because of our incredibly elitist educations.