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Talk Shifts To Wives Of GOP Candidates, Who Needs Issues?






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Which matters more: where presidential candidates stand on the issues, or the physical appearance of the women standing next to them?

If you chose the latter, congrats, you're the target audience for a political silly season that's already underway, perhaps earlier than ever before.

With Fred Thompson jumping into the race, why bother determining how he would deal with frivolous issues such as Iraq, government spending, taxes or illegal immigration? It's far more important to dwell on his wife's age and measurements.

Late last week, your Radio Equalizer began to notice talk hosts spending airtime on this subject, but topping them all was this catty Sunday Boston Herald piece by WTKK / Boston libtalker Margery Eagan:

GOP wives are a pol’s breast friend: Front-runners get ample attention on the front lines


Does the heaving bosom play well among Bible Belt Republicans? Among New Hampshire primary voters?

How else to explain, as debate week begins, the bursting out all over by GOP front-runners’ wives? What’s with this ample - and aging - display of decolletage?
Mrs. John McCain, 52, just gave Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren an at-home tour wearing this tight, bubble-gum-pink wraparound shirt cut to her sternum. Three inches of cleavage. Poor Greta, the consummate professional in blue blazer and yellow button-down, didn’t know where to look.

Meanwhile nearly half the pictures you see of Judy Nathan, aka Mrs. Giuliani, also 52, are very bosomy. Is this supposed to convince those wondering about Rudy - you know, after he bunked with the gay guys post divorce #2 - that he’s not just A Big Hetero but A Big Hetero Who Loves Big Hetero Breasts?

Flashed around the country Thursday was yet another full cleavage shot of Fred Thompson’s child wife looking almost as well-endowed as Alex Rodriguez’s stripper/pole-dancer girlfriend. “That was quite a dress,” said one GOP analyst, breathless.

Perhaps Fred’s wife “Jeri” - yes, with an “i” - helps Fred with AARP, Viagra-ed up men: “You still got it goin’, Fred, you dirty dog.”

Doubt it helps him with women. Let’s face it, we’re all thinking the same thing: Fred’s 64. He’s really drooping. She’s 40, and not. Next to her, he looks 110.

“You wouldn’t see any Bush boobs,” says my GOP guy.

Nor any Reagan, Carter, Nixon, Johnson or Kennedy boobs either. Why should you? Why should any would-be first lady, America’s mother, thrust herself upon a trusting nation?

The only wife of a GOP heavy-hitter who hasn’t practically bared her chest is Ann Romney, the best looking of them all, by the way, though I did once see her in a black leather jacket at a holiday party. Va-va-va-voom.

Happily, we’ve not seen any Democratic skin. Somebody told me Bess Truman once flashed the British ambassador in a darkened corner of the West Wing. I find that extremely hard to believe.

Glad to know Eagan's a confirmed Democrat based on the Frump Factor. Who cares if terrorists are plotting to blow up JFK, or if millions of illegals are invading the country?

No doubt she's thrilled to have Rosie O'Donnell in her camp.

Unfortunately, this is hardly an isolated incident. On some lefty blogs, Thompson is somehow guilty of being a hypocrite for marrying Jeri. If you can, try to follow this "logic" from Salon's Glenn Greenwald:

Social-Christian conservative Fred Thompson, who believes in traditional marriage (he's "pro-traditional-marriage"), is pictured below with his current wife -- 25 years younger than he, 4 years younger than his own daughter -- after the 2006 White House Correspondent's Dinner:


When explaining his profound and solemn opposition to same-sex marriages (he voted (a) for laws prohibiting same-sex marriages and (b) against laws banning discrimination against gays), Thompson said: "Marriage is between a man and a woman, and judges shouldn't be allowed to change that." According to The Politico's Mike Allen, this is what Thompson said earlier this year about his own life:

During a question-and-answer session with House members on April 18, Thompson was asked about his colorful dating history from 1985 to 2002, while he was divorced.

"I was single for a long time, and, yep, I chased a lot of women," Thompson replied, chuckling, according to an attendee who took notes. "And a lot of women chased me. And those that chased me tended to catch me."

The remark drew laughter from men and grins from women, according to witnesses.


It's always a great mystery how people who are on their second or third wives with children from each marriage can stand up with a straight face and proclaim themselves to be believers in "traditional marriage" and -- far worse -- to insist that the laws be structured so as to allow and endorse their own highly untraditional and un-Christian marriages while prohibiting other citizens from entering their own. And it's even more of a mystery that individuals such as Thompson are able to spout (though, with vigor, personally contravene in their own conduct) such platitudes and still be taken seriously.

First, we don't know the real cause of Thompson's first divorce, do we? So how do we know whether he's guilty of un- Christian- like behavior?

Beyond that, how is a marriage between a 65- year- old man and 40- year- old woman immoral? Where does any Christian faith condemn such a union? This is truly absurd.


It's pretty early in the game for such silly rhetoric, don't you think? If this is any indication, get ready for a very nasty presidential contest, especially from the angry left.

UPDATE: others are following this issue from different angles, including Michelle Malkin and The Palmetto Scoop.


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