Jane Swift

Swift: It's hard to apply lipstick in a helicopter

This just in: In a desperate bid to fix her Political Has Been status, Jane Swift is using her position as...something...to bitch about how Obama's being sexist using the whole "like lipstick on a pig" comment. It's surprising that she didn't comment on the "dead fish" remark that followed; she's part Italian!

The simile has little to do with women, and in the absurdity of the moment, everyone seems to forget that all the candidates wear makeup to look good on TV. No doubt her routine will help net her a cushy federal-level position should McCain and Palin get into office.

All of this is to shift focus away from from McCain and Palin rewriting history. The real kicker is that it's a phrase so common, even our good buddy Dick has slung it around, and he was using it to claim that Kerry was a coward who would result in Bin Laden (talk about another has-been) killing us all. See, Jane? Nothing to do with women. It's about Gitin' Them Ter-rists!

PS:Since when did Jane Swift hold conference calls with reporters? Foon Rhee, why did you pass on this crap that was spoon-fed to you? What was the purpose of that conference call? Who arranged it? Hmm?

Title updated; thank you, bostonkid. I bow before you

So maybe Jane Swift isn't that familar with folksy sayings

Barack Obama says John McCain's call for change is like "putting lipstick on a pig" and the McCain camp wheels out our very own Jane Swift to get all huffy. As Todd Gilman of the Dallas Morning News writes:

... Former Gov. Jane Swift of Massachusetts -- where, perhaps, they don't have colorful expressions about pigs -- denounced the comment as "disgraceful" and maintained that since Palin is the only national candidate who wears lipstick, it was clearly directed at her. ... Bloggers have dusted off instances of McCain putting "lipstick on a pig" in reference to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. No apparent outcry from Gov. Swift at the time. ...

Via Ryan.

Hell hath no fury like a former acting governor scorned

Looks like Jane Swift hasn't forgotten what Mitt Romney did to her back in 2002.

Via Political Intelligence.