Jeb Bush used to be referred to as "handsome".

[hedgehog]

Now, that was in his younger years, but did it ever make sense to anyone, or am I judging from my ethnic background's standards?



I mean, he won't scare the horses, but handsome?

[RedCappedBandit]

1. He's a piece of shit. Who cares how handsome he is?

Lookism isn't okay.

[hedgehog]

4. I agree about the lookism. It's just that Republican leaning commentators often

mention him being handsome as qualifying him for the Presidency. It's an old tradition.

"In 1920, political insider and friend Harry Daugherty began to promote Warren G. Harding for the Republican presidential nomination. Daugherty believed that Harding "looked like a president."

http://www.biography.com/people/warren-g-harding-9328336#presidential-bid

[RedCappedBandit]

6. Thanks for that followup.

The value the media places on appearance, especially its relation to political credibility, is certainly a valid topic of conversation imo.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

15. They use that as a justification for denying women the vote.

I've heard that sexist crap---women vote for the better looking of the two candidates, and the first time women got to vote for President was in 1920 for Warren G. Harding. "Typical woman voter" blaming women for electing John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Bill Clinton, like that was a bad thing.

[joeybee12]

2. Apparently referred to handsome by people wanting to borrow money from him...

He's far more ugly inside, though.

[Throd]

3. Meh. Neither ugly nor handsome.

[MADem]

5. "Best of a bad lot," perhaps?

There was a time in American politics when successful young politicians were expected to be:

1. Caucasian--check.

2. Male--check.

3. In possession of a good head of hair--check.

4. Having an appearance of fitness (i.e. not morbidly obese)--check.

5. Tanned--check.

6. Having all of the "important" teeth, which should be reasonably straight and not brown or green--check.

The bar was set quite low.

[tridim]

7. Looks like a typical 80's frat boy. nt

[user_name]

19. exactly! nt

[smirkymonkey]

24. Exactly! A face badly in need of a fist.

I really don't see it. At all.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Not ugly, but too much like a woodchuck to be handsome.

His face is too big and pudgy - though I'm more concerned about what's inside his big, pumpkinish head.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

32. He's very handsome compared to this

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

35. A funny thing about W -

He got weirder-looking - not just older-looking - as his disastrous presidency dragged on. As a young man he didn't look like a drunken monkey; he was just another ordinary-looking WASP guy. Even as governor of Texas he looked fairly normal, and his speaking style was pretty normal as well. Once he got "elected" president, however, it seemed like he began to deteriorate in strange ways; his speeches got more incoherent and he began to look more and more like Alfred E. Newman. The presidency always ages people, but something else happened to that guy. Booze? Exposure to the dark, stygian evil of Dick Cheney?

[alphafemale]

37. You'd think with his family's money they'd have taken him to an orthodontist.

[salin]

9. a quick trip down memory lane..... freepers had a daily *swoon* thread with pictures of W.

Odd. Huh.

Jebbie is also doing the nerd glasses thing like Perry is doing. Er. The glasses don't make you like you are more serious - the policies speak to that... and Jeb, given your recent talk in Detroit, your glasses make you appear like you are play-acting.

[closeupready]

10. There's a time in almost everyone's life when they were considered physically attractive.

Jeb Bush is so not in my type, but if there's one thing I've learned as I've lived a full, rich life, it's that as long as he has his male equipment, there are people out there who will insist he's 'hot'.

[notadmblnd]

11. By who, blind women?

[guillaumeb]

12. would this be the equivalent of voting for Sarah Palin

because she is "hot"?

The focus on looks is absurd and a reflection of the sad state of the American corporate media.

Much was made of Palin's supposed "hotness" but her attractive exterior was it. There is nothing below the exterior. She is an ignorant and unintelligent clown who, to me, is the female equivalent of Reagan and Bush the Second.

Jebba the Bush as President would be the second puppet for Dick Cheney to play with. As to Jebba's supposed intelligence, standing next to George W, nearly anyone would seem smarter. Simply a fact.

[C_U_L8R]

13. Straight out of the preppie handbook

Crooked tie and all.

[larkrake]

14. he looks like a downs-syndrome adult

but he is too mean to be. I work with those kids and they are all sweet and innocent.
Jebs head is too big for his body and given his choices of advisors,he just wants to cultivate wars. I dont think the public wants a college drug-dealer, Florida destroyer, and corporate opportunist in the oval office.

[MANative]

16. Nope. Don't see it. Uhn uh. n/t

[Orsino]

17. Heirs to vast fortunes are by definition handsome.

The closer they get to power, the handsomer. Does anyone else recall the talking heads swooning over Donald Rumsfeld? Or Kissonger's words on the subject?

[Paladin]

18. That photo looks to be from 30 years and 50 pounds ago.

Jeb hasn't improved with age, in any respect at all.

[azmom]

20. Vanilla

[B Calm]

21. Referred by whom? His mother the Quaker Oats gal?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

22. Beaker with better hair?

[Hekate]

23. As was said of Kissinger when he was dating starlets: Power is an aphrodisiac...

So is money. And Jebbie here is heir to both.

[smirkymonkey]

25. I'll be the judge of that.

And no, just no!

[Avalux]

26. He wasn't handsome even when he was young. He's got the face of Babs.

[bigwillq]

27. I would describe that picture as average.

But tastes differ.

[bravenak]

28. He is a dorkface.

[SamKnause]

29. I would not use

that word to describe him, or any words similar to it.

I would not describe him as ugly.

He is definitely not my cup of tea.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

That goodness we don't all see alike or look alike.

[n2doc]

30. Slackjaw Mouthbreather n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

31. Jethro Bodine's mama thought he was handsome

Come to think of it, Jeb reminds me a little of Jethro.

[Octafish]

33. That explains the glasses.

For a more sophistipated look.



''The pet goat emptied the Swiss bank account and painted shower scenes happily ever after...''

[hunter]

34. He looks a little inbred if you ask me...

... eugenics was a popular belief among "Anglo Saxon" upper class.

Then Hitler drove it underground.



I put the sarcasm tag in because I'm saying this sarcastically, but googling the topic will dredge up all sorts of conspiracy theory stuff, from the usual Lyndon LaRouche ravings, to worse.

I myself do not believe Jeb Bush's mom and dad are sister and brother.

wikipedia

[Tommy_Carcetti]

36. Again, it's all relative with Jeb. Literally, relative.

[pansypoo53219]

38. so was bundy + dahmer.

[lpbk2713]

39. Barbara's opinion.

But she might be a bit biased.

[Liberal_in_LA]

40. for a politician