Wolcott: Man-Dude Love (Why does * turn guys on?)

[kskiska]

Digby scores a 10.0 with this post about the unseemly spectacle of Joe Klein shimmying up the nearest pole in his excitement over George Bush's fully-restored presidential bulge. I would prefer not to quote from Klein's piece, sparing my more sensitive readers such radioactive exposure to pundit porn. It's the perverse eros of Beltway power-groupies that's more at issue here.

Digby:

"Perhaps someone can explain to me the strange male attraction to George W. Bush. I have never encountered anything quite like it. From day one, DC nerds like Klein have had massive man-crushes on Junior, describing him as 'loose-hipped' and 'swaggering' and showing all manner of strange obsession with his masculine body language. Klein seems to barely be able to contain his squeal as he writes about Bush’s 'strut' and his 'full jaunty' (which sounds suspiciously like 'full monty' — giving full rise, as it were, to speculation about what Klein was thinking about when he came up with it.) But, can someone please tell me what in the hell he’s talking about when says that Bush was 'downright frothy'? What in god’s name was Klein doing while he wrote this column? (Don’t go there…)"

No, for the sake of all that is decent, don't go there, let's not download that picture into our heads.

It occurred to me reading Digby's post that when it comes to Bush, Joe Klein has a hammy bit of George Costanza in him. You may recall the episode where George got a guy crush on Tony, Elaine's hunky dude of a boyfriend (played by Dan Cortese). George was so enthused that he began modeling himself on Tony, turning his baseball cap around and repeating Tony's catchphrases.

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http://jameswolcott.com/archives/2006/06/mandude_love.php

[unpossibles]

1. Bush was 'downright frothy' - maybe he has a little bit of

Santorum in him....


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[mikelgb]

2. first ever DU vomit

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[katty]

5. just a little?! hmmm, perhaps a bit more

[Hell Hath No Fury]

3. Tweety...

is another one who has a SERIOUS man-crush on W -- I thought he was going to have an on-air orgasm when he covered "Mission Accomplished" and the Presidential Codpiece.

I don't get it either -- Bush's smirking visage has always brought on an urge not to swoon but to kick -- as in kick W in the face. :shrug:

[kskiska]

7. I remember when Tweety once drooled

over Howard Dean's "manly forearms," and how Dr. Dean rolled up his shirtsleeves while campaigning for president.

[Igel]

4. I've come to realize there are some things I

don't understand; this is good.

I can live with that.

I choose not to understand, and even cannot understand the reason for trying to understand. In fact, I prefer to not try to understand, and may even prefer to try to not understand. But that makes me start sounding Rumsfeldian.

[ninkasi]

6. As a woman, I can tell you

that I have always found Bush repulsive. That's an opinion I formed when he was governor of Texas, and my feelings have only intensified over time. My husband thinks he's an idiot, and reaches for the remote when he appears on T.V.

I am completely baffled by those like Klein, and Matthews, who seem to swoon at the mere mention of Chimp's name. Bush invokes a gag reflex in me, and always has. It's quite possible that my revulsion is because one of the sexiest things about a man to me has always been his intelligence.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Same here... I think if I ever had to touch him, even just shake his hand,

I'd have to take a long shower and scrub down with a Brillo pad. He's creepy and repulsive, like I'd imagine the guy who hangs around playgrounds trying to look up the dresses of the little girls on the monkey bars. :puke: Why guys like Klein and Tweety swoon over his "manliness" is incomprehensible to me.

[Skittles]

10. THANK YOU

I agree with you - even if a guy is a friggin' STUD if he lacks intelligence it's a total turnoff for me. And when a guy looks like a chimp AND is as dumb as a bag of hammers, the word REPULSIVE does come to mind. I remember the first time I saw bush, when he was running for governor here - I was stuck by how close his eyes were, how his arms swang like a chimp's, and what an incredible dipshit he was. Alas, I knew when he was running for governor they were gonna make that incompetent piece of shit president - there was no other reason for him to be involved in politics at all.

[SharonAnn]

11. I just think he's gay. And all this "manly" stuff is a front.

[Cha]

9. KNR! Don't know what I'd do

without Digby and Wolcott on this! I saw this the other day but I didn't read the whole silly article by joe madlovemandude klein..but I'm so glad Digby and Wolcott have their impressions out there in Blogoshere!

Thank you! Hope klein or his friends get a whiff of these articles by the reality checkers!

klein needs to say he's a repuke and get it over with.