Sugar mommy? From the party of feminists?
posted at 4:55 pm on April 22, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Allahpundit noted earlier the first attack ad from David Brock and his Progressive Media USA, the $40 million attack project for Democrats against Republicans. What did all that money buy? A lame Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous parody tweaking John McCain for marrying a rich woman, complete with a very bad Robin Leach accent. Take another look at the ad and ask yourself what Brooks et al see as McCain’s major sin:
McCain had the temerity to marry a strong, successful woman without feeling somehow emasculated by it. Now pardon this child of the 70s, but I recall hearing feminists castigate men for feeling threatened by successful women. The patriarchy supposedly oppressed women because they feared losing economic power over their spouses. I believe the exact allegation was that Men keep women barefoot and pregnant, and in the kitchen.
Men who didn’t feel threatened by successful women were supposedly enlightened. Men who allowed women to control their own fortunes were supposedly the most enlightened. Now Democrats want to haul out the chauvunistic taunt of “kept man” and “sugar mommy” against McCain for having been enlightened enough to do both?
Wow. That takes some …. nerve.
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Beer > ketchup
Asher on April 22, 2008 at 4:57 PM
Nice take…now check your formatting!
Patrick_Lasswell on April 22, 2008 at 4:59 PM
Ed, I think you have a typo. Isn’t it David Brock?
Spolitics on April 22, 2008 at 5:00 PM
Were I not already married to someone I love dearly, I would be willing to confront the Democratic party on their hypocrisy and marry a woman for her extravagant wealth!
Who else is willing to take this stand?
Patrick_Lasswell on April 22, 2008 at 5:01 PM
Democrat Playbook
Chapter One: How To Invoke Class Envy
sheesh on April 22, 2008 at 5:02 PM
McCain had the temerity to marry a strong, successful woman without feeling somehow emasculated by it.
This is how politics is today. Kerry was mocked for this, so now that the Republicans have a candidate in the same position, the Democrats strike back.
Tom_Shipley on April 22, 2008 at 5:02 PM
Really? You have a link to that ad, Tom?
Ed Morrissey on April 22, 2008 at 5:05 PM
John Kerry married a rich woman and look where it got him… :P
Vatican Watcher on April 22, 2008 at 5:05 PM
So if marrying a rich woman disqalifies you from the Presidency, what the hell did John Kerry think he was doing?
Cicero43 on April 22, 2008 at 5:05 PM
A little help for you there.
RushBaby on April 22, 2008 at 5:07 PM
I don’t think I ever mocked Kerry for that. I only thought of it as traitorous that Mrs Heinz would marry a conservative senator & then a very liberal one.
jgapinoy on April 22, 2008 at 5:07 PM
Gotta love that they get a foreigner to do the narration. You can’t vote anyway Brit-boy, so quityerbellyachin’.
ggoofer on April 22, 2008 at 5:08 PM
I don’t think McCain’s home is as nice as Obama’s pastor’s.
jgapinoy on April 22, 2008 at 5:09 PM
Is this the best they can come up with for $40mil?
jgapinoy on April 22, 2008 at 5:12 PM
class envy.
i think that was her attitude, demeanor and character, or lack of, not her ketchup.
palefaced on April 22, 2008 at 5:13 PM
Tom = Tool
Fixed that for ya.
omnipotent on April 22, 2008 at 5:14 PM
Didn’t AP just post about this same topic earlier? Just sayin’…
Et tu Brute on April 22, 2008 at 5:16 PM
James Brolin hangs his head in shame.
Limerick on April 22, 2008 at 5:16 PM
McCain didn’t exactly come from white trash. His mother came from money. But that doesn’t matter. It is how you live your life and McCain has something to show for his efforts. Kerry had nothing without Teresa.
bopbottle on April 22, 2008 at 5:17 PM
Best observation all day. Pass me a cold one, please.
Subsunk
Subsunk on April 22, 2008 at 5:17 PM
I think in honor of John Kerry and his wealthy wife, Cindy McCain should change her name to Cindy McCain McCain.
MagicalPat on April 22, 2008 at 5:17 PM
It is her eyes…had nothing to do with the money. I’m just saying…
d1carter on April 22, 2008 at 5:17 PM
This will backfire when John Heinz Kerry is brought up for comparison.
DerKrieger on April 22, 2008 at 5:17 PM
Second use of this word ever on HA.
What man in his right mind would marry a beautiful wealthy woman?
Give me a homely, 300 pounder on welfare any day…
right2bright on April 22, 2008 at 5:19 PM
You guys are starting to double post stuff. What’s going on? Doesn’t take that long to see if the other guy already posted it?
lowandslow on April 22, 2008 at 5:20 PM
Please.
No.
Not LURCH…again!
I was enjoying the tranquility with his absence from the MSM.
Et tu Brute on April 22, 2008 at 5:22 PM
Regardless of where you are with John, thats a worthy first lady in every respect.
Speakup on April 22, 2008 at 5:24 PM
I’m kind of glad this is the best they could do. Some “attack” ad. Shows there isn’t anything they could dig up that’s really objectionable. Of course, we’re nowhere near November…
And hey, look how poor the Clintons and Obamas are. What a contrast.
Rosmerta on April 22, 2008 at 5:25 PM
Yes indeed! I wish she’d talk publicly more. I actually want to hear what she’s got to say, unlike some other candidates’ spouses who shall not be named.
Rosmerta on April 22, 2008 at 5:27 PM
Re doubleposting:
Obviously, I saw that AP had posted his opinion on it; it’s the first thing I say in my post. Sometimes we have different opinions on topics, and I didn’t want to take his post in a different direction. Sometimess we’ll just update each others’ posts.
Ed Morrissey on April 22, 2008 at 5:27 PM
BRILLIANT RushBaby! Now sit back and watch the lib phonies twist themselves into pretzels trying to convince us that we “misunderstood” the “true meaning of the message”. “The message” been – us conservative men been afraid of strong women an all.
RMR on April 22, 2008 at 5:28 PM
I think its a trojan horse. They bring it up to bring to voters mind that John McCain isnt just the war hero but he is also the dude that divorced his wife for gaining weight so he could marry a younger babe with dough. It will help their cause. And if you dont like fleas, you shouldnt nominate a dog.
Nice use of my song in that video though.
Roger Waters on April 22, 2008 at 5:28 PM
Yeah, it’s not like John McCain ever worked at a difficult job or anything. What a slacker. /sarc
mikeyboss on April 22, 2008 at 5:32 PM
But this is somehow completely different than when Obama was making peanuts as a ‘community organizer’ and a wannabe author while his wife was paying all the bills by pulling in 6 figures as a lawyer and hospital bigwig?
Dems living off wives’ money (Kerry and Obama) = enlightened pro-women role models. But John McCain is living off a ’sugar mommy’? This is incoherent at best.
Vote Sauron 08 on April 22, 2008 at 5:35 PM
This is just yet another example of one of the stranger but universal truths of progressivism: they are always the first to violate all their own supposed principles.
They are now almost constantly racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, anti-gay, and even anti-environment … when it suits their purposes.
It’s pretty amusing to watch – since no conservative would do the things liberals constantly do … the things liberals claim to be against by definition.
Just sit back and enjoy the hypocrisy.
Professor Blather on April 22, 2008 at 5:37 PM
The Dems faulted George Bush for avoiding service in Vietnam – but had no problem with the same from Bill Clinton. Now with John McCain, who served in Vietnam to a degree that I would wish on very few people, it’s wrong for him to have a very rich wife, although the Dems had no problem with Kerry’s very rich wife. At least the Dems are consistent with their inconsistencies.
Bigfoot on April 22, 2008 at 5:40 PM
Ya know she will make an awesome First Lady.
ronsfi on April 22, 2008 at 5:41 PM
- older guy
- finds younger, pretty, elegant, slim, established, polished, poised, rich girl who wants to marry him
- he says “hell, yes, separate check books, or not”
Feminism and all that crap aside, which warm-blooded male, regardless of his politics, or anything else, would have said “nah, I’ll pass”?
Entelechy on April 22, 2008 at 5:43 PM
That’s because they stand for nothing, have no foundation. It’s all nuance and negotiable, depending on the agenda-of-the-minute.
Entelechy on April 22, 2008 at 5:44 PM
Pointing out that Lefties are hypocrites is a little like saying water is wet.
Cicero43 on April 22, 2008 at 5:44 PM
I’m an old, white, conservative male who married a woman who has more in assests and earns more money–it’s a non-issue.
Not to mention that it’s your blog … .
davidk on April 22, 2008 at 5:46 PM
Did I mention “good lookin”?
davidk on April 22, 2008 at 5:48 PM
No, not Ed–my wife.
davidk on April 22, 2008 at 5:48 PM
You beat me to it. I was about to ask, you or her, davidk? :)
Entelechy on April 22, 2008 at 5:49 PM
What do you expect from a party that champions genocide in Iraq and defends Obama’s 20 year relationship with his “mentor” and “spiritual advisor” the racist reverend Wright.
This is the same party with their feminist activists that defended Bill Clinton’s affairs for years and called Hillary
a strong women for standing by her man after he got caught… and got caught….and got caught…etc. with other women.
This is the same party that condemned Trent Lott as a racist but holds up Klan wizard senator Byrd as a leader.
This is the same party that calls Delay corrupt but idolizes Ted Kennedy who left a woman to drown while he
left to sleep off his buzz and get his story straight with his lawyer.
This is the same party that says we started a war for profit in part because of Dick Chaney’s association with Haliburton which he left the board of before running as VP,but Obama’s association with terrorist Ayers and a racist preacher that says America deserved 9/11 is a “distraction”.
This is a party that says we can’t let our “babies” and “children” die in this “war for oil” while they fight like mad to kill unborn children here.
and so on….and so on….and so on…
The hypocrisy from the left is staggering and easily noted
by anyone paying attention.
The only thing consistent with liberals is that they will
say and do anything for power.
Baxter Greene on April 22, 2008 at 5:56 PM
Obviously this right winged, male chauvinist pigs intention was to take all her money and then make her barefoot and pregnant.
Good work if you can get it!
conservnut on April 22, 2008 at 5:58 PM
Consider this:
1) Hillary will most likely lose the Dem nomination.
2) Net result: a large number of disenfranchised female voters (some of which even qualify as militant feminists).
3) Now how do you suppose that these bitter female voters will react as the Democrats launch their attacks on Cindy McCain?
My collie says:
CyberCipher on April 22, 2008 at 6:04 PM
Usually you have the hot chippy marry the old guy for his money, not the other way around. Another reason why I like McCain!
RobCon on April 22, 2008 at 6:07 PM
Danish Question……
*”We in Denmark cannot figure out why you are even bothering to hold an election.
On one side, you have a “-itch” who is a lawyer, married to a lawyer, and a lawyer who is married to a “-itch” who is a lawyer.
On the other side, you have a true war hero married to a woman with a huge chest who owns a beer distributorship.
Is there a contest here?”
bucko36 on April 22, 2008 at 6:09 PM
Mrs. McCain, FLILF.
Tzetzes on April 22, 2008 at 6:15 PM
LOL. Collie why didn’t you think of that comment? You’re supposed to be “the look-out.”
My collie says:
CyberCipher on April 22, 2008 at 6:16 PM
…and don’t forget, beer.
second digit on April 22, 2008 at 6:21 PM
Is this ad an attempt to counter the charge that Barry is elitist? It’s going to be mighty hard to do that with Johnny Mac. I really don’t get it (particularly with the champagne wishes and caviar dreams theme). Why would Robin Leach (or his poor impersonator) criticize the very people he’s fawning over?
I get the specious and intellectually lazy charge that people with money can’t possibly have solutions for people who don’t, but the rest is like a Comedy Channel parody, so what’s the point and who is the target audience? Small town Americans who will be bitter to learn that Mac isn’t living on his military pension?
That bothered me a lot too.
Thanks for the suggestion – I will savor every morsel of it like
homemade popcorncaviar and champagne.Buy Danish on April 22, 2008 at 6:25 PM
Plus… is it me… but she’s not that bad on the eyes either… but along with money goes PLASTIC….
CynicalOptimist on April 22, 2008 at 6:35 PM
What’s the opposite of a cougar?
right2bright on April 22, 2008 at 6:40 PM
That’s a horrible picture of her.
DaveS on April 22, 2008 at 6:43 PM
In case no one has asked this, is the point of this video that McCain got his money the same way John Kerry did?
Sort it out anyway you like, at least McCain isn’t living in a $2.6 million house that he could only pay $1.6million for (and only after someone got the seller to divide the lot, a friend bought then abandoned the new parcel, and somehow a $300,000 discount on the house mysteriously materialized).
And almost as important, McCain’s wife didn’t get a 195% raise (from ~$130k to ~$315k/yr; does anyone really know why?), which, coincidentally, mysteriously slightly predates a $1million pork award to the wife’s employer? Did McCain ever arrange such an award?
Arbalest on April 22, 2008 at 6:48 PM
Agreed.
My collie says:
How would you know? You’re a dog, remember?
CyberCipher on April 22, 2008 at 6:52 PM
Hey, didn’t John Kerry serve in Vietnam? And Dick Cheney’s daughter is a lesbian…
fossten on April 22, 2008 at 6:53 PM
You know who would have made a great first lady? Jeri Thompson. Still missing teh Fred!
boko fittleworth on April 22, 2008 at 7:00 PM
I think the point of the ad is that Republicans are hypocrites…ya know, relentlessly mocking Kerry for Theresa and now their candidate is bankrolled by a woman who won’t even release her tax returns she’s so stinking rich. Oh, did anyone mention the word ‘elitist’? I think there’s a dig in that direction too.
Grow Fins on April 22, 2008 at 7:01 PM
She would be acceptable to the feminazis if she weren’t married to a, a, a….MAN.
EJDolbow on April 22, 2008 at 7:03 PM
I know I’m gonna regret this but just why should she release her tax returns. She files separately from John not jointly and she’s not running for anything.
Oldnuke on April 22, 2008 at 7:07 PM
So why was Theresa Heinz’s wealth an issue? And it was. Double standards, my friend, double standards…
Grow Fins on April 22, 2008 at 7:13 PM
Did THK ever release her full tax records? I don’t recall THK’s wealth ever really being an issue, neither was John Kennedy’s.
Oldnuke on April 22, 2008 at 7:20 PM
That is a very lame attack and it will go nowhere. If that’s the best they have to throw at him…. their cause is hopeless.
Maxx on April 22, 2008 at 7:27 PM
I got the impression from the ad that the point was McCain was living a luxurious life, and that he was wrong on current economic trends.
But at lease he doesn’t owe someone (who’s currently on trial for . . .?) for his house.
Someone here mentioned the word “elite”:
“Teresa Heinz Kerry’s family was part of an elite and often brutal ruling class in Mozambique. If she or her father would have cared more about the people of that country than their “way of life” (swimming pools, maids, the Clube Naval in Maputo) they would have stayed.
Teresa Heinz Kerry is painted as an altruistic woman who came from a background of helping the poor. Nothing could be further from the truth. Teresa Heinz Kerry was born with a silver spoon in her mouth and was a part of an often brutal Portuguese ruling class in Mozambique.”
Is this the same Theresa Heinz Kerry? How much of the quote (and the information on the website) is true? The same be cannot said about McCain’s wife.
Who, of McCain’s friends/creditors are on trial for the things for which Rezko is being tried?
Arbalest on April 22, 2008 at 7:33 PM
Hah! I like the cut of your collie’s jib.
mikeyboss on April 22, 2008 at 7:38 PM
Oh no, they’re trying to draw attention to a strikingly lovely woman with a beer fortune!
That will never play with American men!
(Shhh… let them keep harping on it.)
John McCain: Bob Dole’s lucky brother.
profitsbeard on April 22, 2008 at 7:48 PM
Hey, Good ole’ George Washington married a wealthy widow… Hello?!?
newton on April 22, 2008 at 8:13 PM
***The RNC ad to end all ads!!***
I’d also like to nominate this for quote of the day, please.
shibumiglass on April 22, 2008 at 9:18 PM
LOL and her blonde good looks, don’t forget that. It’s not like he scooped up some old hag because she had dough.
funky chicken on April 22, 2008 at 9:45 PM
I never mocked Kerry for marrying Teresa. I mocked her for marrying Kerry. He’s hideous. Why on earth was she even willing to give him a second look?
funky chicken on April 22, 2008 at 9:50 PM
John Kerry,JohnKerry,JohnKerry,JohnKerry,JohnKerry…..neeeeeeeeeed I say more. These assbites are amazing!!!
geminicontender on April 22, 2008 at 10:33 PM
They hate her because she’s successful and gorgeous. Look at Heinz…yuck!
geminicontender on April 22, 2008 at 10:34 PM
I am assuming (shibumiglass), that the woman with a huge chest is the same as Richie Riches gold chest.:):) And no, there is no contest.
geminicontender on April 22, 2008 at 10:39 PM
The Stepford Wife’s father made sure that the Son-in-Law would never control the family fortune. Even the gifts he gets from her are limited by the Hensley lawyers. He is no sugar daddy like Kerry.
LegendHasIt on April 22, 2008 at 11:14 PM
Feminazi’s just like Code Pinkos et al just cannot handle one side of an issue because of their hypocrisy. Thank you Gloria Steinam! Wahhhhhh!!!! Typical Liberal crap.
geminicontender on April 22, 2008 at 11:18 PM
From tidbits I’ve read, Cindy Hensley McCain has doubled the size of the company since the passing of her father. And ummm, how many heirs do that – male or female?
Cindy McCain is a very accomplished woman, beautiful, well traveled, and puts her energy to work for her charitible foundation, and still manages the company. The fact she chose John McCain for a life partner and has dealt with his being in Washington D.C. while her life in Phoenix has been to raise the children and control a very successful company says a great deal about both of them. Sacrifices are nothing new to this couple.
I’m delighted she does know which fork to use without prompting. She’ll do well in promoting the image of the vibrant women of the U.S.A.. I’ve said from the beginning of the campaign that I couldn’t see McCain in the White House. But, I could see her there and she will make a great First Lady.
24K lady on April 22, 2008 at 11:50 PM
Theresa’s wealth was/is not the issue. She is older, and looks like a sugar-mommy. Also, he’d married rich before, Theresa had lost two rich husbands before, one of which was a doctor, and the other a filthy rich conservative businessman and politician, I believe senator from PA. Theresa was a user, and so is John Francois.
Mrs. McCain is considerably younger, and all other mentioned before, and her money is shielded from her husband.
But Grow Fins, we fully agree on those strange women in Texas, at the poligamist ranch, in case you didn’t read my agreement with you this morning.
Entelechy on April 23, 2008 at 12:53 AM
from an email working its way around:
Hard to Argue with the Logic
We in Denmark cannot figure out why you are even bothering to hold an election.
On one side, you have a bitch who is a lawyer, married to a lawyer . .. . and
A lawyer who is married to a bitch who is a lawyer.
On the other side, you have a war hero married to a good looking woman with big tits who owns a beer distributorship.
Is there a contest here?
wordwarp on April 23, 2008 at 1:25 AM
It wasn’t her wealth. It was her classless mouth and her arrogant, elitist attitude.
Why is it that to you dems the only thing that’s important is your childish ‘payback’?
Life’s short. Make wise choices.
techno_barbarian on April 23, 2008 at 1:45 AM
Do you have a link to the ad Republicans ran calling Kerry a sugar mommy? No, because it didn’t exist.
Ed Morrissey on April 23, 2008 at 7:13 AM
“So now it’s bad to have a liberated wife in control of her finances?” It is if she’s a Repub…I still have a hard time understanding that fine point too.
Christine on April 23, 2008 at 1:06 PM
40 million doesn’t really buy you much these days.
I find it hard to believe that the donors to PMU think this kind of advertising is effective.
gabriel sutherland on April 23, 2008 at 2:04 PM
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