George W--Hottie Flyboy?

The Nation ^ | May 12 2002 | Katrina Vanden Heuvel

[Senator Pardek]

What is it with neocon women? They'll find any opportunity to bash the upper west side. In last Friday's Wall Street Journal, former Dan Quayle speech-writer and charter member of the rightwing, antifeminist Independent Women's Forum Lisa Schiffren shared her sex fantasies:

"I had the most astonishing thought last Thursday. After a long day of hauling the kids to playdates and ballet, I turned on the news. And there was the president, landing on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, stepping out of a fighter jet in that amazing uniform, looking--how to put it?--really hot. Also, presidential, of course. Not to mention credible as a commander in chief. But mostly 'hot' as in virile, sexy and powerful. You don't see that a lot in my neighborhood, the Upper West Side of Manhattan. (I'm told there's more of it in the 'red' states.)"

Lisa, Lisa, Lisa, where are you hanging out? Not in my neighborhood, my upper west side. Haven't you walked through Riverside Park this spring? Checked out the running paths and soccer fields? What about the basketball courts at 92nd and Amsterdam?

And Lisa, on my upper west side we like our men to be "hot" in real life, not just in photo-ops. Saturday Night Live's Tina Fey (another Upper West Sider) summed it up well when, after subjecting the photographic record of Bush's combat getup to close scrutiny, she wondered if he had stuffed "socks down the front of the jumpsuit." (My gay friend Luccio says that internet images of Bush in uniform titled "Bush's Package" are wildly popular among his friends.)

The White House's Top Gun spectacle distorted reality in all sorts of ways. Why not use the photo-op to give GOP voters like Schiffren something to fantasize about at night?

[Senator Pardek]

More on the author

[Senator Pardek]

Ooops - more on the author here.

[Senator Pardek]

Guilty - I have not posted an article in months. Can you change the title to "George W--Hottie Flyboy?"

Thank you.

[sinkspur]

Katrina always reminds me of one my early embalming jobs in college.

Too much cake on that hide!

[Admin Moderator]

It's fixed but I did have a laugh.

[Senator Pardek]

Someday I will find out who you are and track you down.

[LurkerNoMore!]

I want to laugh. Please change it back.

[Spunky]

Admin Says; "It's fixed but I did have a laugh."

Darn they were to quick.

What did it say before so I can laugh also?

[Admin Moderator]

No way. I'm afraid of the Senator.

[LurkerNoMore!]

*sigh*

Ditto.

[Howlin]

I knew you'd be here. :-)

[LurkerNoMore!]

*Busted*

In so many ways.

[xsmommy]

and i knew YOU'D be here : )

[Catspaw]

Fess up, Senator--what'd it say originally? Please, pretty please with sugar on top....

[Howlin]

Well, I'm always hoping they start talkinga about butts. :-)

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Saturday Night Live's Tina Fey (another Upper West Sider) summed it up well when, after subjecting the photographic record of Bush's combat getup to close scrutiny, she wondered if he had stuffed "socks down the front of the jumpsuit." (My gay friend Luccio says that internet images of Bush in uniform titled "Bush's Package" are wildly popular among his friends.)

My wife has been studying pictures of both Presidents Bush long before this and notes that neither of them have any need to stuff socks down the front of their pants.

[LurkerNoMore!]

"they"?

HE'S the one that consistantly brings the subject into every thread.

[newgeezer]

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[Texas Eagle]

Once again, Rush is on the cutting edge of societal evolution

Bush Scoring Soccer Moms, Dems Making Fools of Themselves

May 13, 2003

One of the reasons Democrats are angry about this aircraft carrier landing is that the soccer moms have fled the Democrats and they're all a-tizzy over the way Bush looks in a flight suit. Lisa Schiffren, a conservative columnist, wrote a whole piece in the Wall Street Journal the other day, where she basically comes right out and says she wanted to rip that flight suit right off Dubya.

Yet, here are the Democrats making a big to-do over the carrier landing. Meanwhile, Patrick Leahy proudly displays himself in a flight suit on his own website, and not one media outlet sees fit to call attention to it or ask other Democrats about it.

Matt Drudge posted it on his website and so it looks like this Drudge guy is really way ahead of everybody, but the truth is that the elite guardians of the mainstream press would see that Leahy photo and not even see the newsworthiness of it, even though they are the ones acting as willing accomplices with the Democrats on raising hell about Bush's carrier landing, which is a non-story. All that adds up to is pure, unadulterated sour grapes. The Democrats don't have one person who could pull this off with credibility, including John F. Kerry, who if I'm not mistaken, served in Vietnam. Of course, I'm being facetious. He only tells us in one out of every two statements.

The Democrats are all a bunch of Michael Dukakis, Beetle Bailey types. And why? It's not the way they look. It's that on balance, the modern Democratic Party is full of left-wing wacko groups that look at the U.S. military as the great evil, as the great threat to world peace, and they've made no bones about it. So to see a Democrat landing on an aircraft carrier in a flight suit, praising the men and women of the U.S. military just wouldn't fly in most people's minds because they know the Democrats don't believe this and it would be utter hypocrisy.

The reason it works with Bush comes back to the fact that he's genuine. To a man and woman in the U.S. military, they are honored he is their commander-in-chief and on that aircraft carrier they were thrilled that he showed up to thank them. The real story here is not that Bush did the landing. The real story is not that Bush looks good in a flight suit. The real story is that each time the Democrats criticize him for it they lose respect and they lose strength within the military ranks, which include military voters, in this country and around the world. People have not forgotten that it was the Algore campaign, i.e., the Democrats back in Florida 2000 that were doing everything they could to discount absentee overseas military ballots.

Come on folks, is having Henry Waxman the front man on this the best the Democratic Party can do? They're making fools of themselves, digging themselves an even deeper hole, and, frankly, it's a joy to see.

Listen to Rush... (...explain why the Democrats are making fools of themselves) (…expand on why the soccer moms love George W. Bush)

[Senator Pardek]

Can you change that to "consistently" in #17?