Winky Dink -- When Sarah Palin Winks, The World Blinks

Winky Dink -- The Wink Factor of Sarah Palin (wink! wink!)
by Dan Bloom

WASHINGTON,D.C.(RUSHPRNEWS)10/04/2008-- When GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin winks, the world blinks.Her winks have become as much a part of her repertoire as her folksy Alaskanisms and her almost routine dropping of the final "g" on words ending in "ing" -- such as "goin' to getcha" or "runnin" to the bank".It's just her style, and among some voters, it's the real thing, because they talk that way, too.

But it's the Palin Wink that has caught the attention of the world -- the world! -- and not just North America. Photos of Ms. Palin doing the wink-a-wink routinely appear in the print newspapers in Japan, Taiwan, France, Poland, Russia and Israel. Her wink has gone global. It's the Palin trademark.

But what kind of wink it is? And should it be trusted?

"Sarah Palin's wink is kind of like waving a red cloth in front of a bull, said one observer.

"She winked," said a male blogger on a New York Times website. "I can just see Lyndon Johnson saying: "I ask for your help, and God's." [WINK]. Or Ronald Reagan saying: "They slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of God." [WINK]."

Said another blogger about Winky Dink: "If you don't give a hoot about substance, and if jaw-dropping contradictions impress you, and a folksy-phony style turns you on, and you don't mind twisted English and flawed logic -- and you thrill to the sight of a candidate for the second highest office of the land brazenly flirting with her audience -- then 'Winky Dink' might just be your gal."

"She came off as too folksy to me," says a 23-year-old engineer of Palin's performance in the recent debate. "I could have done without the winks."

On the other hand, a conservative blogger wants to know the answer to this question: "Whats the Democrats' obsession with Sarah Palin's wink? Is it some sort of weird fetish? I have never seen a group so fascinated by something so insignificant in my life. Please do explain."

Fetish? Um, I never thought of it from that angle.

"Okay, here's the problem with the wink," says another observer of American gender culture. "If a man did that it, he would be called out. It makes Palin look like she's doing a Mentos commercial.
It looks like she is relying on the 'cute' factor, what the Japanese call 'kawaii".

Palin does have her boosters. They are legion. And they deserve her. Why not? It's a free country, and those people who want to vote for her have every right to do so on God's Holy Earth.

"Why do the Democrats dislike Pakin's winky wonkiness so much? Because they can't look sincerity in the eye. She stuns them with her vibrant personality," opines a conservative blogger online.

But not everyone agrees. "Holey moley!" wrote a female blogger in cyberspace recently. "Someone
-- anyone! -- say it ain't so.

Sarah Palin may be qualified to be the governor of Alaska, but not VP of the United States. She has a lack of familiarity with the complex problems that we face in the United States, including her favorite subject: energy."

And an American male living overseas says on his blog: "As someone living in northern Europe, the phenomenon of Sarah Palin can only be understood as some form of reality television where anybody can win the prize and debate to movers and shakers. She clearly has no idea about federal government, the Constitution, international politics, history, law, economics, or general knowledge of national politics. She wants the federal government to get out of the lives of working class people, yet is attempting to become VP with an agenda derived from current VP Dick Cheney's expansion of the role.

She has no consistency, no coherence, no clarity in relation to current profound problems confronting ordinary people, and can only cheer with the American mantra of 'fight, freedom, fight ,freedom'."

In conclusion, let me say this (wink wink) about The Wink Factor, in the words of one her supporters: "Sarah Palin's winking in the 'Can I Call You Joe?' debate last week has the arugala-chomping mainstream media flummoxed and confounded, but Joe Six-pack has fallen head over heels in love with this sexy and sassy straight shooter from Wasilla".

Body language says a lot these days. Wink! Wink! By the way, is it one wink or two?

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