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To many celebrities, civic engagement can wield an almost narcotic allure in an election year. And as hinted at earlier this month, few of Hollywood's addictive personalities are as susceptible to political jousting as that of Lindsay Lohan, who is quickly surpassing other pundits around the left as Sarah Palin's most vocal critic. It was bad enough that Palin would dare to exploit her daughter's pregnancy, Lindsay blogged a couple weeks ago; but now, with Palin having implacably assumed the national spotlight with six weeks to go before Election Day, a more general study is apparently in order — via MySpace, natch:

Is our country so divided that the Republicans best hope is a narrow minded, media obsessed homophobe? [...]

I feel it's necessary for me to clarify that I am not against Sarah Palin as a mother or woman. Women have come a long way in the fight to have the choice over what we do with our bodies... And its frightening to see that a woman in 2008 would negate all of that. Oh, and...Hint Hint Pali Pal- Don't pose for anymore tabloid covers, you're not a celebrity, you're running for office to represent our, your, my COUNTRY! And in the words of Pamela Anderson, "She can suck it"..

"Hint Hint Pali Pal"! And with that — the folding-over of tabloid darlings new and old into one head-exploding feminist slogan — the postmodern circle of political life came within inches of closing early Sunday. There was clearly still work for Lindsay to do in order to knock Palin off the top of the tabs, and it didn't take long:

Lilo was heading into The Bowery Hotel in NYC Sunday night [...] when she tripped over a metal barricade that had been set up. According to our guy on the scene, Lindsay must have thought one of the paps tripped her because she turned around and punched a photog in the nose! She was on the phone at the time and, after the punch, told whoever she was talking to, "Oh my God, I just hit a paparazzi."

We knew these bloodthirsty ladies had more in common than they probably thought — enough, even, for Lohan to potentially usurp Tina Fey's ownership of her Palin role in the forthcoming movie of the week. The Daily News has more suggestions where that came from, for what they're worth. We have our winner, as far as we're concerned.