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So there was this election in Massachusetts, apparently. I was sort vaguely aware of it but it wasn’t until my Facebook page started filling up with smug Republican friends doing a verbal victory dance over the end of the Obama era that I thought I’d better look into it. Because, you know, I thought the Presidential election was still a little ways off.
So now I know who Scott Brown is. And at first, I wasn’t all that impressed with all the hype and hoopla over his victory. Of course I would expect Republicans to act all smug and jabber about mandates and messages (and admit it – you would too after getting yr ass handed to you the last two Congressional elections). But otherwise, I just couldn’t see what the big deal was.
Then I saw Brown’s Cosmo spread.
And I thought, “OMG this IS huge!”
Seriously. You are looking at a major, MAJOR shift in American politics right there. Five years ago – hell, ONE year ago – a story like that would have been a political career-ender, because nudity is basically illegal in America. And yet despite that spread being posted all over the Internet, Brown still won.
That’s unprecedented. I mean, name ONE candidate for a major political office that has been photographed naked on purpose and won. (Besides Arnold Schwarzenegger, I mean, who doesn’t count because he wasn’t American at the time.)
Sure, if he was a woman and/or a Democrat – or if those pics had run in, say, The Advocate instead of a woman's magazine that Republican voters used to ban from supermarkets because it encouraged unmarried women to have sex and enjoy it – he’d have been clobbered mercilessly. And granted, if he’d run in, say, Oklahoma rather than a “liberal hotbed” like Massachussets (because liberals LOVE naked people), he might have had his bare ass handed to him.
But still, I think this is a milestone. It’s a mandate from the American people, all right: we want more naked male Republican senators.
( I will take yr questions now ... )
Progress!
Get down, get undressed,
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So now I know who Scott Brown is. And at first, I wasn’t all that impressed with all the hype and hoopla over his victory. Of course I would expect Republicans to act all smug and jabber about mandates and messages (and admit it – you would too after getting yr ass handed to you the last two Congressional elections). But otherwise, I just couldn’t see what the big deal was.
Then I saw Brown’s Cosmo spread.
And I thought, “OMG this IS huge!”
Seriously. You are looking at a major, MAJOR shift in American politics right there. Five years ago – hell, ONE year ago – a story like that would have been a political career-ender, because nudity is basically illegal in America. And yet despite that spread being posted all over the Internet, Brown still won.
That’s unprecedented. I mean, name ONE candidate for a major political office that has been photographed naked on purpose and won. (Besides Arnold Schwarzenegger, I mean, who doesn’t count because he wasn’t American at the time.)
Sure, if he was a woman and/or a Democrat – or if those pics had run in, say, The Advocate instead of a woman's magazine that Republican voters used to ban from supermarkets because it encouraged unmarried women to have sex and enjoy it – he’d have been clobbered mercilessly. And granted, if he’d run in, say, Oklahoma rather than a “liberal hotbed” like Massachussets (because liberals LOVE naked people), he might have had his bare ass handed to him.
But still, I think this is a milestone. It’s a mandate from the American people, all right: we want more naked male Republican senators.
( I will take yr questions now ... )
Progress!
Get down, get undressed,
This is dF
