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Dreams of a McCain White House Kegger
“Once upon a time, about a month ago, Senator John McCain was mocking the celebrity of his rival, Senator Barack Obama, comparing him in a television commercial to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears,” writes Michael Cooper at The Caucus. “But on Monday Mr. McCain showed that he was not against bold-faced-types, per se, hobnobbing in company that is decidedly more Us Weekly and Billboard than Congressional Quarterly or Council on Foreign Relations in its nature.”
Daddy Yankee, John Voight and Angie Harmon are McCain fans, as is Patricia Heaton (above) — who has her own reasons for wanting to see McCain take the White House:
“I was a little disappointed in not being able to introduce Cindy, as was originally planned, as she is a beer heiress and I’m Irish Catholic,’’ she said, according to a pool report, drawing laughs from the crowd. “I have a vested interest in seeing her become first lady so I get invited to those White House keg parties.”
Fox has more of Heaton’s remarks:
“As an actor I recognize that our opponent, someone who thinks that if he puts on the right costume and stands on the right set, that we will all believe that he is presidential material but John McCain doesn’t have to pretend because he walks the walk,” Heaton said during her introduction of the presumptive GOP nominee at a McCain Sacramento fundraiser.
Heaton, an award-winning actress best known for her role as Ray Romano’s wife on the hit series “Everybody Loves Raymond,” said McCain is more in touch with the concerns of regular Americans than his rival. She specifically cited the contrasting images Obama in Berlin “giving his blessing in messianic fashion to thousands of adoring Germans” and McCain talking to voters in a supermarket aisle.
“You know what I thought when I saw that photo? I thought, ‘yeah baby, we are going to win this election.’ Because I am in the cheese aisle in the grocery store a lot more often than when I am in Berlin and so are most other Americans,” Heaton added.
But is she in the cheese aisle as much as she’s on the golf course? Or in England?
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August 27, 2008 at 1:49 pm
It is more than a little bit disingenuous for a famous and wealthy celebrity actress to offer herself up as a champion of the little people. I am sure that she does spend more time in the cheese aisles than in Berlin but it is to buy imported brie for cocktail parties and not mac and cheese to feed the family.
While I think that the whole “elitist” issue is silly, it is more than a stretch to suggest that candidate raised by a single mother, and who only recently was able to pay off his school loans, is an elitist when his opponent flies around in his wife’s jet and has too many homes to count. But who can blame the Republicans for trying when the last time around they successfully turned the war hero into a fake and elevated his AWOL opponent into a bold leader.