Loving, Naked Tributes to Sarah Palin Just Keep on Coming

Posted by Nicole Pasulka

 

This is a slightly censored photograph of a nude portrait of Sarah Palin on the wall of Chicago's Old Town Ale House. The Ale House is famous for its wall art -- featuring portraits of Albert Einstein and Chris Farley, to name a few -- and last Thursday they unveiled a portrait by the bar's co-owner and resident artist Bruce Elliott of Palin in the buff. 

And so, we have, after the jump, Palin in the buff on the wall of the Old Town Ale House via Brian Boyer:

 

If it isn't odd enough that the painting exists at all, check out Elliott's reply, when asked about the moose:

The moose is there because it realizes she’s going to turn around and blow his brains out.

Uh, intense. Maybe true. Definitely weird. And, since we know by now that there aren't any actual nude or bikini photos of the VP nominee, who served as Elliott's figure mode?

His daughter, Grace.

Sarah Palin's nomination as the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate was the greatest thing to happen to the genre of nude photography and portraiture in the recent history and as a subject, she's quite an inspiration.  


Comments

Baron Von Monkeychow said:

Better than seeing McCain's happy meal.

September 29, 2008 4:17 PM

Mandy said:

Ugh. Why aren't we seeing nude portraits of the male candidates? I'm as liberal as the day is long, but this is just plain offensive.

September 30, 2008 1:25 PM

Emily Farris said:

I think the easy answer is that no one wants to see John McCain nude and we like the Democratic candidates so why do that to them? We weren't doing this with Hillary and if John McCain had picked a pretty young man to be his running mate, you can bet we'd be showing naked pictures of him, too.

September 30, 2008 1:40 PM

Paul said:

@Mandy : Because a nude photo of Obama would intimidate too many white males :P

October 1, 2008 5:15 PM

Nate said:

I think its fair to say the only reason that we have a bunch of nude pictures of Palin floating around is because shes actually attractive, unlike anybody else in politics. I mean look at Clinton? YUCK! And Obama's wife? Nobody wants to see a bewildered criminal naked...

October 2, 2008 4:24 AM

devil........ said:

She Must be Overwhelmed..........

MAy Be She Might Not look So Beautiful As She IS In That Portrait.............Good One

October 5, 2008 11:37 PM

LaurenBailey said:

Whoooo Boooyyy! I'm voting Republican! (And, apparently, for the sake of this comment, I am also voting full bush and oddly perky tits.)

October 10, 2008 2:26 PM

LaurenBailey said:

With all that Palin represents and has made of herself, it's only NATURAL that this would happen. It wouldn't happen to Hilary because Hilary would probably bite the head off the first artist to raise a brush. But Palin likes her stereotypical gender role and seems to like defying it even more lately.

October 10, 2008 3:36 PM

Emmanuel said:

@LaurenBailey So it's ok for a woman to be ridiculed if she holds herself a certain way?  If she likes being a mom and a dutiful wife and raising children and shooting moose and wolves and bears and deer, then it's ok to strip her naked and show her in a place where other people, other men were clothed?  She deserves it because of the way she carries herself; because of the things that she believes.

October 10, 2008 5:37 PM

Joe Schmanoli said:

The only reason Insane MacCain picked her as a running mate is because of her looks. This plays on her looks. Thus it is fair game.

October 11, 2008 10:35 PM

Ade said:

I would have picked her to keep her garden a bit more neatly trimmed.

October 13, 2008 5:33 PM

BOBY said:

Palin is a hot chick, the old man needed some action @ work. He divorced his model wife because she got into an accident and got hurt ( you know ). What do you expect from a guy like him. Having Palin around will be fine. (Her husbend look gay)I'll listen to her when she's taking care of me.

October 29, 2008 1:27 AM

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