Tom Teepen: Another slapstick calamity in the suavity wars
July 2nd, 2009 -- Posted in I read | No Comments »MARK Sanford, South Carolina’s soon-to-be-ex-governor, shows up at the Atlanta airport with lipstick on his collar as an Alternative of dust on his hiking Books, and vexation and opprobrium appear across the land. Maybe the response spiked because Sanford was the modern Development politician in a long and ever-lengthening c carcanet of sexual wanderers to star in late-Model Years at press conference confessions. It’s not as though we weren’t warned. Henry Kissinger, then secretary of State, boasted in the 1970s, “Power is the supreme aphrodisiac,” and Henry ought to have Known. He was dating the Actress Jill St. John, Bond skirt in “Diamonds Are Forever” and 36-22-35-162. (The 162 was her IQ. No, really.
The University of California admitted her as a 14-year-old. Surely you didn’t reckon an brainy dig Kissinger cared for her body?) People, get real. Politicians may be a distinctly lesser proceeding of toast of the town but they are celebrities after their Model and groupies accrue if not absolutely abound. High zing guys with high-class visibility and Important opportunity - the profligate route out of Eden. The vocation is bipartisan, though of late steeply tilted Republican, and that’s without even counting the hangover duplicity of such protracted party elders as Newt Gingrich.
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