As I noted earlier, the “lipstick on a pig” idiom is one that has been used in the past by both Barack Obama when talking about Iraq, and John McCain when talking about Hillary Clinton.
It turns out that they’re not the only ones.
John Kerry is trying every which way to cover up his record of weakness on national defense. But he can’t do it. It won’t work. As we like to say in Wyoming, you can put all the lipstick you want on that pig, but at the end of the day, it’s still a pig.
He dishes corn pone with a master’s touch. “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig”; “that dog don’t hunt”; Congressional efforts to give amnesty to illegal immigrants are “like selling a horse twice.”
I am disappointed but not surprised that the president has once again chosen to trot out this same old pig, albeit one with a slightly new shade of lipstick.
It wasn’t an insult when those guys used it. It isn’t an insult now, it’s time for the McCain people to drop this one.
H/T: Reason
September 11th, 2008 at 7:42 am
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