Posted on 12/29/2001 6:30:47 AM PST by veronica
He's vigorous. He's direct. At nearly 70, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is TV's newest stud.
Forget The Guardian's Simon Baker, Smallville's Tom Welling, or 24's Kiefer Sutherland. The sexiest man on television is a grandpop with a throaty laugh and a confidence so overpowering it's made entire countries go weak in the knees.
No doubt about it, Donald Rumsfeld is a stud muffin.
Oh sure, he's a bespectacled government bureaucrat pushing 70. But the secretary of defense has a quality that many women adore.
He's as self-assured as a bull in a cow pasture.
Next to this ex-Navy flyboy and self-made millionaire, humorless careerists are but empty suits, doubt-ridden heroes are boring, and sensitive New Age males look like big whiny babies.
Rumsfeld, in contrast, looks like a good time. In a recent interview, Larry King asked, "Secretary Rumsfeld . . . do you like this image? You now have this new image called sex symbol."
Rumsfeld laughed heartily and replied, "Oh, come on." But he seemed delighted, and later allowed that he could be a sex symbol "for the AARP."
He's direct, plainspoken, full of that quality John F. Kennedy so admired: vigor.
He enjoys sparring with reporters at news conferences. Exuding bonhomie, he gets his points across while revealing very little of what everybody is there to find out. These performances are among the best on television, depicted by political cartoonist Mike Peters as "Must See TV."
Rumsfeld is decisive, a quality Saturday Night Live recognized in a recent skit: The President is in a meeting, taking a call from boring Al Gore, who drones on and on while Bush's advisers point impatiently to their watches and Bush, a prisoner of his breeding, seeks a polite end to the conversation.
Rumsfeld strides in. Grasping the situation immediately, he grabs the receiver and barks, "Get off the phone, Al. Now!" A startled Gore hangs up.
Talk about a man of action.
In the Navy, Rumsfeld was a champion wrestler. Now, he hunts elk.
He's been around Washington forever - this is his second go-round as defense secretary - but it took a war to make him a celeb.
After attending Princeton University on a scholarship, he married his childhood sweetheart, Joyce, in 1954, served in the Navy, and did six years in Congress and four in the Nixon administration.
He was ambassador to NATO when President Gerald R. Ford called him back and made him the youngest defense secretary in the country's history. He wasn't well-liked. Over the years, he has annoyed people by ignoring criticism and pushing to get things done. He used to be called imperious. Now he's seen as determined.
He's also telegenic, which became apparent when the spotlight found him in September. The camera loves him. He's the media star of the war on terror.
He has reappeared on the scene at a time when popular culture is again embracing big-shouldered, go-for-it guys, from stoic Russell Crowe in the Oscar-winning Gladiator to bully Teddy Roosevelt in the best-selling Theodore Rex, to buff Will Smith as The Greatest in Ali.
Classical Roman virtues such as courage and determination, so passe in the high-flying '90s, are again in vogue.
Steely confidence is admired, in burly firemen, guys who attack armed hijackers with their bare hands, 19-year-olds who parachute into battlefields in the middle of the night - and straight-shooting Rummy, the senior with swagger.
Manly men, every one. It's good to have them back.
And speaking of manly older men...RD! :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D
Was your Dad a McCaniac before he saw the light??
PS to all - I did NOT make up the 'Do ya' think he's sexy' part. It was the title of the article. I leave that stuff to the journos.
His wife might object!!!!
And a certain type of man who automatically equates big breasts with sex... and probably some who equate tiny feet with it, too... takes all kinds. To say that if Stormin' Norman wore overalls and worked at a Burger King, he wouldn't have been called sexy is like saying that if Britney Spears weighed 400 pounds, men wouldn't be drooling over her. Duh.
Just goes to show that women are interested in a man's mind, and men are interested in a woman's body. </tongue-firmly-in-cheek>
And this is why I think that Sen.John Edwards doesn't have a chance to be elected President(Thank God)!
Best of all he has a great sense of humor which is what makes him so sexy....we women love men who make us laugh!
You just nailed it, Mr. McG. We've just had eight years of effeminate males who instead of being asked about whether they wore boxers or briefs, should have been asked whether they wore lace on their panties, or plain. Their leader, BillieJeff may have had male plumbing, but didn't have a masculine bone in his pathetic flabby body.
From all reports - his 'plumbing' is pathetic!!
Maybe that's why he keeps testing it to see if it works!
LOL!!! I'll bet he hasn't tested it on Hillary in a looooong time!
I've always found x42 (and his partner in crime) about as sexy as slugs.
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