SIMON (DOONAN) SAYS:

Rrrowl! My Couture Romp Ruined by Caribou Frau

Prowling the tents of Bryant Park, I couldn't get the image of the perky, bespectacled G.O.P. veep pick out of my mind

by Simon Doonan September 9, 2008

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On Thursday, Sept. 4, before hitting the Bryant Park shows, I made a beeline for my neighborhood optician to check up on business. I had expected to see hordes of women snapping up those smart-lady Tina Fey glasses, the very same ones that had endowed Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate for vice president of the United States, with such an air of faux gravitas the night before. Thirty-seven million people of varying political persuasions watched the bespectacled Alaskan overachiever deliver her acceptance speech! Eyewear, and the unwitting marketing thereof, has never loomed larger on the American landscape. If this political stuff does not work out, Ms. Palin is definitely in the running to become America's next top eyewear model: not Miss Congeniality, but Ms. LensCrafters. Anybody can see that.

And let's call a spade a spade: The having-it-all hockey mom was mesmerizing, albeit in a hilarious, if-John-Waters-had-invented-a-Republican kind of a way. If Sarah Palin weren't anti-choice, anti-Darwin, anti-gay marriage, and overly fond of killing large animals with horns, then I would definitely vote for her. I would plonk her caribou-skinnin' ass in the Oval Office in a hot second. But she is and therefore I'm not.

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Meanwhile, check out these photos of Caribou Barbie!





IN HER LOVELY HOME



HER PARENT'S HOME: The bumper sticker on her dad's truck says "Vegetarian - Indian word for 'bad hunter'"



THIS WAR-WEARY NATION WANTS PEACE--NOT THIS SICK FREAK!