Oct 24 2008
McCain’s Crush
Taylor Marsh on writes on the Huffington Post:
Having written columns on “the politics of sex” (used to have that URL) off and on for 15 years, it was plain to see from the start to me. Sarah’s got sex appeal. She’s got camera appeal, that thing you can’t teach. Good for her. She also can manipulate a crowd, and I mean that in a good way, at least for her purposes.
Women swooned over J.F.K. WJC’s sex appeal got him into trouble as well.
Taylor – darned straight. Some women are ticked off about it, but I’m not. If I were a political woman, I’d use my good looks too – and I’m no beauty queen – just girl next door pretty – but I’d use it. You betcha! 
Seriously – I don’t know why women are up in arms about this. Anyone think Obama isn’t using it? How about that utterly devastating picture of him posing for the press on his plane? Where is that picture anyway – when all the press swooned because he donned a pair of jeans? LOL! I mean – seriously – he’s a good looking man. And we ladies have had time to reconcile his swoonworthiness with his actual candidate worthiness (and I think some Hillary supporters were originally pissed because it was very clear that some of Obama’s off the bat support was just cuz he was cute – and they refused, REFUSED! to be taken in by that… good on them, but if you didn’t have that as a motive, you were vulnerable. That’s a truism).
Obama’s a good looking man, and Palin is a good looking woman. They each have those assets to leverage – and as you say – so long as that’s not all that’s there, nothing wrong with leveraging it.
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