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Old 01-14-2004, 12:05 AM   #16
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What I can't understand is why people who thing Dubya is unattractive think Bill Clinton is the hottest thing going. The man looks like WC Fields on a bad day and has what can only be described as a televangalist hairdo and women go crazy over him? Uh, why? I find him personally repulsive. I saw him once in person, from a great distance, when he was 'running' on Coranado Beach in California. It was gross. Anyone with that much white skin should be banned from the beach. Last time I saw anything that white it had been living under a rock. What really burned my butt, though, was there was a good swell coming in and thanks to Billy-Bob and his pasty thighs, you couldn't get within a mile of the surf.
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Old 01-14-2004, 09:48 AM   #17
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I think the attraction to Clinton is that he was a much better politician (i.e., he's better at hoovering at the back door). I'm gonna say the best looking man in office, EVAR!, was Bob Dole. Mmmmm.....gimpy hotness.
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Old 01-14-2004, 10:26 AM   #18
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Question:

If the physical attractiveness of the candidate is so important, why hasn't one of the parties nominated some hot-looking barely-legal (aka 35, the minimum age to be president) woman? If looks are really that important then goodness call me naive, but an attractive female 35-yo business owner surrounded by some old codger advisers from the party (whichever party) establishment sounds like a winner.
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Old 01-14-2004, 10:56 AM   #19
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[quote]Originally posted by SteveDallas

Most attractive women have something better to do than politics :-)

Actually, though, the Republicans in MD tried it with Linda Chavez, but she couldn't beat butt-ugly (and I'm insulting butts) Barbara Mikulski for Senator.

Probably for a woman, being attractive is something of a liability in getting elected.
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Old 01-14-2004, 11:08 AM   #20
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I talked with a professional political consultant about that very question. He said that the ideal woman candidate is someone whom the men think is attractive/do-able and the women think is NOT.

At the time, he said, Christie Todd Whitman was the ideal.

Of course that was eight years ago.

It is, of course, completely and totally unfair, sexist, ageist, shallow and chauvinist. Welcome to politics.
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Old 01-14-2004, 06:00 PM   #21
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And they would have to retrain the TV news cameramen to get a shot of the shoes.
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Old 01-14-2004, 10:06 PM   #22
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Mikulski is indeed hard on the eyes...AND ears. Pure Highlandtown.

Ya know, Hillary might be the best-looking woman in politics...
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