Lowering the bar......a candidate's appearance

[Dover]

Okay, I was pretty upset last night when Letterman poked fun of Kucinich's looks, asking if anyone could vote for someone who looked like that. Yes, he does have the Ross Perot ear thing happening...
but then Ross DID try to warn us about NAFTA (as has Kucinich)...so maybe the less attractive types are more reliable when it comes to truth. I mean, I really struggled over Jimmy Carters big teeth and scary eyes. But he grew up to be someone really special too.

So don't get me started about looks! I think anybody with a little talent in cartoon caricatures could do quite a job on any of the candidates. While Dean is considered by many as the most attractive, let me be the first to disagree. And this has absolutely NOTHING to do with his ideas, campaign, policies, electability, etc., so don't flame me.
But Dean's mouth seems to be the only animate part of his face and reminds me of those hilarious discussions that Conan O'Brien has on his show with the picture posters of some famous person, where only their mouth moves. A little bit stiff.

Someone here at DU described Kerry as looking a little like a mortician.

So anyway, just getting that off my chest. I'm sure once the next president is elected, the cartoonist will have all those idiocyncracies down to a fine art.

[MuseRider]

1. I can take this much better

when it comes from guys getting paid to be funny but it is cruel. Who cares what they look like? Well, some do I guess.

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. Hey, like they always say....As long as he is tallish and has nice hair...

;-)

[SoCalDem]

3. Kerry reminds me of "Lurch, the butler"

Dean's got no neck...his mouth's too small
Kucinich reminds me of a troll doll
That mole thing on Edward's lip gives me the heebie jeebies
Gephardt's, redheadded, no eyebrowed albino look does not "do it" for me
Lieberman's jowly saggy face and his Elmer Fudd voice creep me out


actually the two most "normal looking ones are Moseley-Braun & Sharpton...

[MuseRider]

5. You got it!

I loved the poster who thought Dean's mouth reminded him/her of Conans mouth thingy. Cracked me up. I still think Kerry looks most like Odo. I of course look like a movie star, RIGHT!

[rustydog]

6. Leiberman as the voice of Elmer Fudd!

Oh my Gawd the visual!

"Hewo, haa haa haa haa haa, My name is Pwesident Weiberman.
I going to wescue the economy and save us from tewebble terorwists. "

[Dover]

7. ROFL !!!.........n/t

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[AngryYoungMan]

4. I always thought Hillary was kind of sexy.

Her husband (to my hetero male eyes) seems to have Redford-level charisma.

There are Republican women who find W. attractive.

JFK and Nixon are of course the template for this kind of comparison.

Daschle looks like a smug dentist on his way to a medical convention dinner.

Dukakis looked like a guy who'd been fixing European cars for 20 years.

They kept saying that Quayle looked like Robert Redford, but he actually (as Paul Slansky pointed out) resembled Pat Sajak.

The sexiest woman on TV right now is that brunette legal commentator on CNN discussing Kobe Bryant.

...okay, sue me, I just wanted to have a 270th post