Posted on 04/04/2009 7:13:26 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
The Illinois congressman, 27, is getting attention from paparazzi and politicos, and he's prepared to take full advantage of it.
BY JAMES OLIPHANT
Reporting from Washington -- He is the Republican Dream Date, a smooth-speaking, polished product of Illinois, as comfortable with Facebook as a face-to-face. John McCain's daughter gushed over him as the future of the party. He blogs for the liberal webzine Huffington Post, which said he sports the best abs in Congress. TMZ trails him like a pop star.
And he is two decades younger than Barack Obama.
Aaron Schock, 27, hasn't wanted for attention since being elected to the House of Representatives last fall. He has bounced from Stephen Colbert's show to CNN, and his own videos go viral on YouTube.
Much of the interest stems from his unlined face and full head of brown hair. (He recently brushed aside a suggestion from Howard Kurtz on CNN that he take off his jacket and show his physique for TMZ, which had asked Schock to compare his abs to President Obama's.)
Schock offers an alternative to GOP tent poles such as Sens. McCain of Arizona and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and House Minority Leader John A. Boehner of Ohio.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
this Shock dude sounds like an ass-clown. We need more guys like Thad McCotter. Check out his appearances on Red Eye.
Good to see the truly important issues - like a politicians abs - are finally coming to the forefront. So much better than taking about all those stuffy fiscal, international, and governance issues.
McCotter is great! Schock seems like a girly man.
If he is only 27, he has a lot to learn. No experience. Kind of like Zero........
'Zactly like Zero.
Sure, he's doubtless a smarmy, liberal RINO but, I'm fairly sure there must be a rule about Schock threads...
I was a little stunned to see that my "adopted" (R) rep from Michigan voted "yea". Think I'll just print this roll call off and send it in lieu of a monatary contribution...
27 years old is not old enough to have the life experiences to make informed descisions. I prefer someone who has been around the block a lot longer to be a leader.
No argument here.
I think Winston Churchill once said, "If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain." I am not at all sure what sort of "conservative" Schock (I had a hard time not putting an "L" in there somewhere) is, or thinks he is...
You might remember that story from a number of years ago about the 19 year old candidate that ran against the President of his school board as a write in candidate and beat her by a landslide. This is the same guy...didn’t realize that until I looked him up. He has quite a few other interesting things in his bio as well.
The vote on the AIG bill is a mark against him, but other than that he seems to be a fairly solid conservative. He is definitely a shift to the right from his predecessor, Ray LaHood (who is now in Obama’s cabinet).
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