LIPSTICK ON A PIG.... I suppose it's possible for our political discourse to get even dumber, but it's hard to imagine how. Last October, asked about Sen. Hillary Clinton's health care plan, Sen ...

Yet another sign of the apocalypse is the spectacle of American presidential candidates consumed with putting lipstick on pigs. All last week, it was lipstick-on-a-pig this, lipstick-on-a-pig that,… ...

WASHINGTON – Barack Obama stuck his foot in his mouth today when he said “you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig” – which the angry McCain campaign immedi… ...

The latest overblown irrelevance in a presidential campaign full of them was the oh-so-big flap over Barack Obama's not very original comment about pigs and lipstick. ("You can put lipstick on a ...

(Fortune Magazine) -- If nothing else, we've learned recently that if you put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig. Presumably that has always been true - unless of course the pig in question was a ...

"Well, you can put lipstick on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig." And then there was June 1993, in Austin during a ceremony in which she defended her veto of the concealed-weapons bill.

Now, in the wake of Barack Obama’s use of the saying and the McCain/Palin attacks against him over it, “putting lipstick on a pig” has become the latest flashpoint in the presidential ...