Posted on 08/15/2010 11:30:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Somewhere out there, in what Winston Churchill once called “the Great Republic” is the not-too-happy wife of a Republican governor or senator.
This poor lass has devoted the last two or three decades of her life to the gruesome indignities of American politics, shaking hands with morons, forfeiting all privacy, wearing a fixed grin, warily eyeing the bouncy blondes on her husband’s campaign staff and trying to retain her girlish figure through the endless parade of bull roasts, picnics, fundraising banquets and state fairs.
(“Try the deep-fried Twinkies ma’am?”)
She has done this all with one thought in mind. Someday, she will be first lady. And it would all be worth it. One day, and it could be soon, given President Obama’s troubles, she will have her choice of designer fashions. Be held up to the world as the epitome of American womanhood. Pick a personal cause to champion. Have a staff of hundreds of flattering aides. Wreak vengeance on her enemies. Host state dinners, with real movie stars, and make all those marvelous, exciting trips abroad, in luxurious style befitting a first lady, to exotic locales…
Oops.
I can hear her now. “What are those idiots on Fox, and the Tea Party dumb nuts doing? One lousy European trip--to Spain in August, no less--with her daughter, and the right wing is portraying Michelle Obama as Marie Antoinette? Don’t they know the price she has paid? The loss of liberty, spontaneity and authenticity? The toll on her soul? What woman would ever pay the cost to be first lady, without the perks? What candidate’s wife would let her husband run for president, if the payoff is clothes from Land’s End, gun shows, and fried pork sandwiches at the Iowa state fair? Honey, no way am I doing this.”
[See photos of Michelle Obama.]
If they are smart, the Republican wives will band together; sign a pact, and get the word out to the conservative media. Lay off Michelle, or the only Republican candidate you’ll have in 2012 will be divorced. Or Todd.
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I know! I'll take my daughter to a posh resort in Spain in the middle of a depression- with my daughter, take up about 60 rooms and make the government pay for it all.
And everyone will just loooove me for it.
The whole purpose of this item is not to direct Republicans, but to keep Democrats from getting out of line.
Funny how leftist get all whiny and testy when they find themselves on the receiving end.
They sure know how to dish it out, but sure can’t take it.
Oh, Okay.
Right after they lay off us, The Gulf Industries and Las Vegas.
Searching for the next perfect vacation location.
Democrats are from Venus. They can’t even begin to get it.
5 vacations since June. Or was that July?!
My, how the Left can’t handle the truth...
This is satire isn’t it? Please tell me it’s satire.
Can anyone remember any Republican First Lady acting like Michelle Antoinette?
Hell, the Democrats bitched unmercifully when Nancy Reagan commissioned new china for the White House, even though she didn’t take any of it with her and it will be useful for many decades.
(The china that the Clinton’s didn’t steal, that is.)
No... this has to be satire.
That reminds me. I wonder how many of our “elected elite” has gone or will go on some type of “fact finding” junket during this break?
Actually, mostly I hear the press making a big deal about it.
If we had a fair and balanced Media, everyone would know it.
John Aloysius Farrell seems to have his panties in a bunch about pooor Mchelle Antoinette.
Lay off Sarah Palin and her family, Democrats.
What? This isn't a two-way street?
How silly of me.
Don’t turn her into Hillary Clinton. Hillary was the “bad” one which made Bill the “good” one. Don’t want Barack to be the “good” one.
Seems like one of those “Let them eat cake” moments.
Vacation Gal. Very funny photoshop thread.
What a dunce.
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