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

boston herald.com ^ | 6/03/07 | Margery Eagan

[melt]

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.

[familyop]

So this is what our western culture has devolved to. It’s no wonder that our Party effete are leading us by our noses to choose nominees who lack military knowledge, tend toward more funding for anti-family social programs, vote in favor of foreign hordes of cheap labor, and favor a yet stronger judicial against constitutional rights. The candidates only need to pretend that they are opposed to their own voting records.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Margery is turning into Maureen Dowd.

[familyop]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Hysteria \Hys*te"ri*a\, n. [NL.: cf. F. hyst['e]rie. See
     Hysteric.] (Med.)
     A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women,
     in which the emotional and reflex excitability is
     exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished,
     so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes
     the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into
     paroxism or fits.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: The chief symptoms are convulsive, tossing movements of
           the limbs and head, uncontrollable crying and laughing,
           and a choking sensation as if a ball were lodged in the
           throat. The affection presents the most varied
           symptoms, often simulating those of the gravest
           diseases, but generally curable by mental treatment
           alone. Hysteric

[therut]

She is showing the guy the size of the hamburger she ate for lunch.

[Rome2000]

Thge first thing I did when rumors about Thompson making a run came up a few months ago was to check out who the new first lady would be.

Although initially concerned about the age difference, all she has to do is cover up the cleavage and smile, keep her mouth shut and let Fred do his thing.

People will appreciate that she is not a Heinz or Hitlery type.

It helps that she finally turned 40.

[familyop]

"Fred's "child wife" is 40 yrs old? The old bag must play a lot of 'rack'etball to stay in shape."

So he's about 25 years older than his wife. If a construction worker does the same, we're outraged. That's okay, though, for our superiors. Some of them are around 40 years older than their wives (and some even older than that) .

[operation clinton cleanup]

Whats the matter Marge? Trying to distract from the fact that all the Democrat candidates ARE boobs?

[Huck]

Thge first thing I did when rumors about Thompson making a run came up a few months ago was to check out who the new first lady would be.

That was smart. Sort of a strange, but definitely significant part of the game. Pageantry and all that. I just wonder what the bio is on the first wife. Fred's a little long in the tooth, he needs to appeal to women.

[Prokopton]

Not Breasts! OH NO!

Did I miss something? I always thought conservatives, at least conservative men, appreciated a well endowed conservative woman. If they don't, I might have to rethink my allegiances.

[scratcher]

If a construction worker does the same, we're outraged.

I couldn't care less along as she's an adult.  

 

[VeritatisSplendor]

I wonder what the author thinks of Dennis Kucinich's wife:
There was a lot of joking in 2004 that Kucinich was running for President so he could find a hot wife. It looks like it worked!

[arderkrag]

I certainly do, and anyone who knows my wife could confirm this. I just think some people’s hysteria at seeing cleavage or a bared breast on TV is silly.

[Mariebl]

Regarding Fred Thompson--it seems as though he married for the first time when he was 17, in 1959. He got divorced '25 years later', which would be approximately 1984. By all accounts, it was a friendly divorce. I haven't been given any reason yet to think that the divorce was even his idea. He remarried in 2002, approximately 18 years after his divorce. That's not what anyone could call: 'trading the old one in on a younger model'.

By the way, did anyone have the endurance to read down to the bottom of the article, where the author thinks that it's just thrilling that Dennis Kuchinich married someone 31 years younger than he is?

[Mariebl]

Read the last paragraph of the article! You won’t believe your eyes!

[freekitty]

I see, they are trying to play the age game. Well, let’s see Hitlery is no spring chicken. As for young Obama, he is a muslim and has no experience.

[freekitty]

I really don’t think Fred turned his wife in for a younger model. I think it just happened.

[SolidWood]

Aha!
According to Margery Eagan’s logic Dennis Kucinich’s younger wife is proof for his charm and intelligence,
but Fred Thompson’s younger wife is proof that he is an old, valueless pervert.

[Aria]

That’s HILARIOUS!

[GladesGuru]

“If a construction worker does the same, we’re outraged.”

As Tonto said to the Lone Ranger, “Where you get “we” from, White Man?”

[goodnesswins]

Yikes...Hil looks pregnant there...