Chicago pub hangs nude portrait of Palin

At the Old Town Ale House in Chicago, partisan politics don't get in the way of an inspired crush on the "bizarrely fascinating" vice-presidential nominee.

Bruce Elliott, whose wife Tobin Mitchen owns the drinking establishment, says he "pretty much despise[s]" everything Sarah Palin stands for, but admits he finds her kind of hot. So when Elliot painted a nude portrait of the moose-hunting VP candidate, Mitchen hung it prominently in the bar.

The portrait -- in which the body was reportedly modeled on that of Elliott's daughter (!?) -- depicts the Alaska governor standing in the buff on a bearskin rug, wearing red high heels and holding a machine gun.

These days, the painting is a big attraction among the pub's clientele. "We got a bunch of people in tonight," Elliott said. "They're coming to take pictures with their camera phones. The photo is all over the place."

UK Ed: We would say this was debasing to the VP candidate, but we have to keep it in perspective -- Palin is debasing herself twice as badly whenever she appears on TV. The following clip, in which she cannot name a single newspaper she reads except "all of them", shows just what we mean.