All Hands On Deck

Although this old LIFE Magazine cover with Tina Fey and John McCain has been making the rounds for about a month now, I haven’t noticed anyone relate it to the sexual dynamics of the Palin-McCain ticket.

Given how Palin has energized McCain, I think this cover — distributed four Septembers ago during the dwindling days of the Bush – Kerry contest — is, well, on the personal side.  In fact, if a news magazine had the balls, I could easily imagine McCain and the real Sarah posing exactly the same way illustrating how McCain would be nowhere right now without those Alaskan hands on deck.

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