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Thursday, July 25, 2002

JFK Envy and Ronnie sure is a pretty man
From Axis of Weevil Minister of Tourism and Footwear H.D. Miller comes his reaction to some poop from Maureen Dowd (whom he tags as "MoDo," which I think looks enough like "komodo" to do a great injustice to komodo dragons everywhere):
With the current crop of whining pretty boys, steroid freaks, Scientology cultists, and pampered, method-acting twits, few Hollywood stars under the age of 75 are now anywhere close to having Reagan's amazing combination of looks, natural good-humored grace, and common-man likeablity. Kevin Costner had a chance at it, until his visions of grandeur kicked in after Dances with Wolves. Tom Hanks makes millions by being extremely likeable, but his increasingly doughy form is not, let's face it, movie-star handsome.

Likewise the current crop of pretty boy politicians are all, as MoDo points out, JFK knock-offs. They imitate the JFK style because it's easier to imitate something that is itself an artificial construct, put together by Joe Kennedy's public relations wizards, than it is to imitate the God-given charm and native good-humor of Ronald Reagan. Reagan was a one-off, a once-in-a-lifetime American force of nature. While there have been scores of politicians who've done a good job of JFK mimicry, there are no politicians who've managed to successfully evoke the memory of Reagan. It's apparently not possible to do.
I've always thought that Rutherford B. Hayes was sorta hot. But that's just the liquor talking.


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