Blogger Digby discovers that it's more important to
look good than govern good:
MSNBC guest Karen Hanratty "Republican Strategist" on Gore:
There was a blind quote in one of the papers, actually Carville, James Carville said if he loses 15 pounds we'll know he's running, and I thought, it's going to take a lot more than that! (Gales of laughter on the panel.)
Presidents who win are usually very athletic. Bush runs like a seven minute mile! And Clinton liked hamburgers but he worked out.
Those are the little things that actually matter.
There you have it.
To paraphrase
John Locke: "An unsound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of the unhappy state in this country."
But, lawdy, that bike riding and brush-clearing really pay off.
Even liberal Canadian rockers have taken notice. Sez
Neil Young:
One thing about Bush: You’ve got to respect him for being in such good physical condition. He works like hell to be fit. That’s a great example at his age.
If Mr. "
Impeach the President" sees the benefits of a studly statesman, so should anyone who
doesn't give a shit that we're killing and dying in the Middle East for no reason, running up a record deficit, abandoning the disadvantaged, defiling the Constitution, and trashing the environment.
C'mon, who would you rather have represent our country — gimpy FDR or male babe
Warren G. Harding?
So, in November 2008, remember the little things that actually matter: whether you want to spend the next four or eight years looking at a
big tubby geek or a
leggy chorus boy?
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