I am an attractive professional. But when I'm at work, I don't let my tits hang out. When I go to work-related affairs, I don't flash a great deal of my tits. Call me crazy, but I don't want people looking at my tits most of the time. On a beach, sure, I'll have what everyone coyly calls "cleavage." But I'm not going to show off big bags of chest flesh and expect people to take me seriously as a professional. Because heterosexual men are going to do one thing and one thing only: look at my tits. They're going to think about my tits. They can't help it; they like tits. I don't blame them, tits are nice. But there's a time and a place for a big hot helpin' of tittie flesh, and it's not at a professional affair. Does Nancy Pelosi show up at fundraisers with more than 50% of her breast tissue on display? Do we want Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush or Condi Rice flashing the majority of their tits at a photo op? Do we ever want to see George W Bush in that hideous codpiece flight suit getup again?

Leave the hanging baggage to Lindsay Lohan, Janet Jackson and Cher (real or not). Red carpet tits are fun but black-tie tits are freaky.

Go ahead and call me old-fashioned, but I don't want to see any politician's (or political spouse's) dick or ass on display either, no matter how young and virile. And since Jeri Kehn was a GOP media consultant, my guess is that her abundant display of tits is very calculated. The GOP is all about blonde females in miniskirts and plunging necklines in the media these days. Just turn on Fox News, or see Ann Coulter's latest media appearance in that well-worn sleeveless black microdress.

Say, does Paul Wolfowitz have a pistol in his pocket or is he just happy to see Jeri Kehn? (And she's not even showing as much cleavage here as she usually does)

http://www.wdcpix.com/cgi-bin/ImageFolio4/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=People&image=Wolfowitz042107-2.jpg&img=0&search=Jeri%20Kehn&cat=all&tt=&bool=phrase

...to hear Republican conservatives scream "sexism!" whenever someone brings up the fact that Mrs Thompson is "hot." These are the same people who came up with "Hitlery" and described a politician's wife as a "lesbian" who "murdered" her heterosexual lover, Vince Foster. Talk about delusional. And remember how John Kerry's wife was repeatedly characterized as a looney heiress? And that Elizabeth Edwards -- why, she's using her son's death to raise money!

These same folk idolize Barbara Bush, a woman who asked why she should bother her "beautiful mind" about American casualties in Iraq because they were "not relevant" and who donated to "victims of Hurricane Katrina" -- with the stipulation that every last cent of her donation be spent on computer software manufactured by her son Neil's firm.

The same people who obsessed about a man's penis for over a year suddenly call for "decency" when someone mentions Mrs Kehn Thompson's bombshell style. It's really funny. Google "Jeri Kehn Thompson" on Republican sites and settle in for some schoolmarmin' about how Mrs. Thompson is not "hot" or a "trophy wife" -- nay! She is naught but a conservative Republican wife and mother. Nothing sexy here folks, move along! Look at "Hitlery" instead - say, has Hitlery had some BOTOX LATELY? What about those pantsuits? Know why she wears 'em? FAT LEGS! Look at Bill Clinton, her husband. HE HAS A PENIS!

I love a good laugh....

Corporations.

And that's the way it was supposed to be. The corporatists used the religious right to get the White House, the Congress and the Senate. And it worked. It has worked for the most part, for the past 27 years. It worked long enough so that legislation gutting environmental regulation, media regulation, federal oversight of consumer issues, business regulations, congressional oversight of the executive branch and personal liberties could be rammed through. And let's not forget tax breaks. Not just for the individual, but for companies which put a fax machine in an office in Dubai and call it their world corporate headquarters.

They've won. They've won a hell of a lot. Don't underestimate them. Those of you who are Baby Boomers about my age may remember the 1970s. Nixon had to comply with the law back then. Television has consumer reporters on all their local and national news shows who investigated corporate hijinx and pollution. When a town didn't like things which polluted the area (like plastic bags), they banned them and didn't have to worry about being sued by a giant corporation. State and federal courts were not packed with extreme rightwingers. Media was regulated so that print, radio and television outlets did not fall into the hands of a few billionaires with an agenda. The Fairness Doctrine was in existence.

Don't worry about abortion. The corporatists don't want abortion made illegal. Millions of voters go to the polls every Election Day specifically to vote for the anti-abortion candidate (usually a Republican conservative). Hundreds of millions of dollars are swept up by the GOP and conservative, pro-corporate organizations and candidates. You known what happens as soon as abortion is banned? Those funds dry up and those voters stay home and say "Mission Accomplished." The GOP and its corporate overlords don't want that.

So Rove didn't bet and lose. He won. The GOP imploding? That's what they said when Barry Goldwater lost the 1964 election by 23 percentage points. Four years later, Richard Nixon was elected and in 1972, Nixon was re-elected with the second largest plurality in American history. After Nixon, it was once again predicted that the Republican party had been destroyed. And, once again, a Republican took the White House four years later and was reelected in 1984.

Don't go calling Rove a loser yet. These guys know how to string the religious right along. It's not a new strategy; they've been doing it for years and they'll continue to do so.