Palin doesn't own the word "lipstick".
In South Carolina during the primaries, McCain's response to a voter's question about Hillary Clinton, "How do we beat the bitch?", was that it was -- and I quote the Senator -- "an excellent question". I include the link as support; I remember the incident.
If Mr. McCain can deem someone calling his female opponent a bitch, I believe Mr. Obama can put lipstick on a pig. After all, we haven't heard him specify that it was a sow. Maybe it was an old boar from Arizona.
If you put lipstick on a dick, it's still a dick, but you wonder where it's been.
What I want to know is, why Obama's campaign is emphasizing that Republicans have used the lipstick expression, and have not pointed out how excellent McCain thinks calling a woman a bitch is.