Sarah Barracuda

what OP-ED columnist Gail Collins called Sarah Palin in The New York Times

Caribou Barbie

This is, what, according to Maureen Dowd in the New York Times, critics call Sarah Palin. In the same article, she also refers to her as “Valentino Barbie” and “Eliza Doolittle“, but stresses that “She [Sarah Palin] is so naturally good-looking, there is no need to gild the Last Frontier lily.”

Rovian

= aggressive, or, as considered by the Democrats, dirty, e.g. “Rovian tactics”, named after Carl Rove, the former presidential adviser to George W. Bush

cf. The New York Times

Palinism

“a philosophy delivered without a passport and with a view (on a clear day) of Russia”, quoted from The New York Times

“From an inspirational notion, however flawed in execution, that has buttressed the global spread of liberty, American exceptionalism has morphed into the fortress of those who see themselves threatened by ‘one-worlders’ (read Barack Obama) and who believe it’s more important to know how to dress moose than find Mumbai.”

ibid.

Palintology

the science dealing with Alaska’s first female governor and US VP nominee, Sarah Palin

found here

and also referred to in The Los Angeles Times

First Dude

That’s Todd Palin, accourding to the Washington Post.

PUMA

Party Unity My Ass

quoted from: Slate Magazine

Hillary Harridan

“a creepy literary type [... of] irrational, emotional, self-referential women”

quoted from: Slate Magazine

Corrupticut

Connecticut, as it’s called after recent scandals, cf. New York Times

a human being after all

“Occasionally, I am a human being like everyone else.” – Hillary Clinton on why she “mis-spoke” by claiming to have landed in Tuzla in Bosnia under sniper fire when she hadn’t.

quoted from: The Economist, March 29, 2008, online edition

Now, did she “mis-speak” again, or did she really mean to say that she is human only occasionally?