{"id":11075,"date":"2007-06-09T14:30:59","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T18:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11075.html"},"modified":"2007-06-09T14:30:59","modified_gmt":"2007-06-09T18:30:59","slug":"how-shallow-do-they-think-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/how-shallow-do-they-think-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"How shallow do they think we are?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rep. Zack Wamp (R-Tenn.), one of Fred Thompson’s boosters on the Hill, recently suggested<\/a> the actor\/senator\/lobbyist would make a good president, in part because of his speaking voice.<\/p>\n

“He has a commanding voice,” Wamp said. “He has a commanding presence. He makes people feel secure. He makes us feel confident.” <\/p>\n

Sen. George “Macaca” Allen (remember him?) apparently feels the same way<\/a>. (via Steve M.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Former Sen. George Allen is bullish about former Republican Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee, the actor who hasn’t even gotten into the 2008 presidential race yet.<\/p>\n

Thompson has the right philosophy, is articulate, has a record and is “the best voice in America,” Allen, a Virginia Republican, told a lecture series audience yesterday.<\/p>\n

He likened Thompson’s voice to that of a “modern-day Rex Allen,” drawing a reference to a now-deceased cowboy actor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s good to know substantive qualities weigh heavily on the minds of GOP leaders.
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\nOn a related note, interest in Mitt Romney’s appearance is apparently still high<\/a> among conservative political observers.<\/p>\n

In his June 6 column, Politico chief political columnist Roger Simon declared former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney the winner of the June 5 Republican presidential debate and attributed Romney’s victory, in part, to the fact that he is “[s]trong, clear, gives good soundbite, and has shoulders you could land a 737 on.”<\/p>\n

As Media Matters for America noted, Simon has previously described Romney as having “chiseled-out-of-granite features, a full, dark head of hair going a distinguished gray at the temples, and a barrel chest,” adding: “On the morning that he announced for president, I bumped into him in the lounge of the Marriott and up close he is almost overpowering. He radiates vigor.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This, of course, follows Bill O’Reilly<\/a> praising Romney’s jaw and hair, and NewsMax<\/a> celebrating the former Massachusetts governor’s “sensational good looks.”<\/p>\n

The moral of the story: if a Republican candidate looked like Romney and sounded like Thompson, they could call off the primaries and give the guy the nomination. They might be tempted to ask this amalgamation a few questions about issues, but why bother? He’d make Republicans “feel” secure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Zack Wamp (R-Tenn.), one of Fred Thompson’s boosters on the Hill, recently suggested the actor\/senator\/lobbyist would make a good president, in part because of his speaking voice. “He has a commanding voice,” Wamp said. “He has a commanding presence. He makes people feel secure. He makes us feel confident.” Sen. George “Macaca” Allen (remember […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}