Should the 2008 Presidential election come down between Rice and Clinton (and I don’t think it will) how long do you think it will be before someone notes, “Men will vote for the woman they want to have sex with most.”?
Someone will say it. You know it.
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but if that were the case, jessica alba would be president.
Yes, but only because Nicole Kidman is Australian and is therefore ineligible.
In that case, Condi wins – especially if conversation is involved afterwards.
This is a bad, bad thread.
Kevin, you just said it. Sorry, bud, you get the blame for this one.
Martin,
While I may have been the first to mention the idea (and I better get sourced as the first person to bring it up if it ever is), I made it contingent upon Rice and Clinton running against each other. Now, if Rice and Clinton do run against one another and I mention it then you will be correct. But this has not yet occurred.
That leaves us gay men with nobody to vote for, alas.
Robert,
The candidate with the best shoes? ;-P
For me, that would be no different than most presidential elections:
A choice between two undesirable candidates….
Sorry, Kevin, you can’t escape now. In point of fact, you never said it, you said someone else will say it. I understand the distinction. But as Internet memes travel and grow, the distinction just doesn’t matter. You’ve broached the idea, and now it’s yours, unfair though that may be.
I cannot imagine Dr Rice as a presidential candidate. And secretaries of state or other foreign policy advisors almost never have been nominated for presidential office in this country. Or at least not since the days of the founding fathers or shortly thereafter.
And in recent decades, the US Secretary of State holds little more importance in the federal establishment than does the US ambassador to the UNO.
The fact is, that when a president moves his foreign policy advisor over to the run the US State Department, that’s is almost always a signal of demotion.
And when they start sending that person to the Middle East to attempt their perennial lets-make-peace-between-the-Israelis-and-Arabs non-starter, that’s the clearest sign of all that the assigned fool has been written off by the administration and Congress as well.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
In any case, she has clearly expressed no interest in competing for the presidency, and I think she is headed back to her university world. Perhaps even before the end of the Bush era two years from now.
Did gay men in 2004 pick between Bush and Kerry based on which man they wanted to have sex with?
mikeca, I’ll bet there are people who will accuse gay men of exactly that. Kevin’s not off base here. After all, every election I hear accusations that women vote for the best-looking male candidate. Groundless for the most part (with 100 million voters, surely some of them have to vote on such superficial reasons), these accusations still exist.
So who do y’all think would be the winning write-in candidate under Kevin’s scenario?
I don’t know about “winning,” but I’m thinking Dean had better write in Rosemary’s name.
If your lucky maybe Michael Moore would run as a third party (libertarian) candidate in the “Clinton-Rice” election.
Sweet huh?
High five…
Ask my lovely wife some time if Clinton’s sex appeal helped him win in 1992.
She’ll give you the blunt answer, and that answer will be “yes.” Given that she met him, and was working at the University of Michigan at the time, it’s not a foolish answer.
Given that the last couple of Presidential elections have been won on vote differences of 2% or less, it’s not a joke.
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