{"id":14327,"date":"2008-01-23T10:40:33","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T15:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14327.html"},"modified":"2008-01-23T10:40:33","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T15:40:33","slug":"taking-political-vanity-to-a-whole-new-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/taking-political-vanity-to-a-whole-new-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking political vanity to a whole new level"},"content":{"rendered":"

I suspect all politicians, to some extent, are concerned with their personal appearance, but this example<\/a>, from Texas’ 22nd, is simply hilarious.<\/p>\n

Some politicians talk about cutting the fat, but this one was serious.<\/p>\n

Congressional candidate Dean Hrbacek appears slimmer than usual in a new campaign brochure because a photo of his head was affixed to the image of a different body.<\/p>\n

While the mailer sent to voters this week by the former Sugar Land mayor says “Dean’s record speaks for itself,” his physique clearly does not.<\/p>\n

The picture, presented as a true image of the candidate, is a computerized composite of Hrbacek’s face and someone else’s slimmer figure, in suit and tie, from neck to kneecaps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hrbacek’s campaign manager, Scott Broschart, conceded that the image is a fake, but said the candidate has just been so busy meeting voters that he didn’t have time to have his picture taken for the mailing. Broschart added that the flap is unimportant, because voters “are more concerned with the issues as opposed to pretty photo shoots.”<\/p>\n

Somehow, I have a hunch this defense won’t work.<\/p>\n

John Bresnahan added<\/a>, “I love this guy already and hope he wins the GOP nomination to take on Lampson. It will be too much fun.”<\/p>\n

Agreed. Any campaign that would pull a stunt like this is bound<\/i> to be the gift that keeps on giving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I suspect all politicians, to some extent, are concerned with their personal appearance, but this example, from Texas’ 22nd, is simply hilarious. Some politicians talk about cutting the fat, but this one was serious. Congressional candidate Dean Hrbacek appears slimmer than usual in a new campaign brochure because a photo of his head was affixed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14327","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=14327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}