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K-Lo asks: "Is there any woman in America who doesn't want Cindy McCain's hair stylist and wardrober?" I certainly hope there are a few. I'm having a disturbing vision of a dystopian McCain Era in which the Ministry of Hair and Wardrobe forces all women to turn themselves into Cindy clones while muttering something about the need to transcend mere self-interest and individuality. Comments (46)
Gawd knows why, but I really like Cindy McCain. 
Did the NR hire K-Lo in some chauvinist plot to try to demonstrate that women really are stupider than men?
Cindy McCain's style is just standard-issue Houston-Phoenix-San Diego Republican heiress.
I keep resisting the temptation to remark that Cindy McCain has clearly spent too much of her life in the sun, but I don't think I can hold out anymore after someone from NRO praises her looks. Call her dignified or whatever, but when she's held out as someone to emulate, they've pushed too far. :)
It's a broken clock moment, but K-Lo is right. I bet a huge part of Hillary's demographic would love to have Cindy's hair stylist and wardrober.
I like McCain's suit in that picture. We need more khaki suits in America. Usually his suits don't fit him that well. There's an interesting "is/ought" theme going on here. While a lot of women probably do want to look like Cindy McCain (such as Vicky Iseman), it'd be better if they strive for, say, Michelle Obama.
Come on now, McCain's 2nd wife is hot.
Dude did you see her yellow dress at the speech? It's winter, lady. Get some winter clothes.
For St. John and Mrs. St. John, it's always been about trading up. Always.
If it comes down to Cindy McCain versus Hillary Clinton in a D.C. old woman 'best dressed' competition, I've got to go with the pill popper. Hillary's attempts to cover up those extra 70 pounds on her waist and buttocks with a tailored jacket just doesn't cut it.
The thought of Cindy McCain getting to take swipes at Michelle Obama's Americaness makes my heart hurt. Seriously, Cindy McCain was born into immense wealth and privilege and what has she made of herself? A homewrecker, a pill popper and a thief. Granted she did adopt a kid from Mother Teresa's Orphanage, and that's cool, but, apart from that, I don't see how she gets to lay claim to sound heartland values.
Anon...In her defense, there's no winter in Arizona, just that season when it's less hot, and there are more people from Wisconsin hanging around the state. Of course, she might live in DC. This New Englander would say that what happens in DC in January and February barely qualifies as winter either.
Cindy McCain. MILF.
I'm a woman who enjoys wearing nice clothes, doing my hair and all the rest. I can appreciate good fashion. I don't know who K-Lo is, but she doesn't speak for me or any of my friends. The first time I saw Cindy McCain a few months ago on TV, I thought she looked pretty ridiculous. Her style is really brash and unattractive to me. Maybe it's because I'm from the Northeast and now live in the San Francisco area, where people like her are a pretty rare sight. She just looks very fake and is trying too hard to look like a 25 year old rather than a 55 year old. Like poor little Jonbenet Ramsey as a grandmother. Really weird.
It's never winter in Phoenix. That's what made "Bad Santa" so funny because it so obviously avoided the atmospherics of typical Christmas movies. Clinton's jackets gotta go. I don't think it's nice to make fun of a woman's weight, but the Nehru collars, the mullet, and the pastels are all choices within her control and may justly be criticized. Also, if you want to praise yourself for "earning every wrinkle," please do not also apply your makeup with a trowel.
Let's be nice.
Poor Matthew. Cindy keeps a "list" -- and Matthew's name just got added to it. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article3295472.ece Thou art doomed, oh bearded one. You are cursed in the city -- and you are cursed in the fields. You are cursed going in -- and cursed going out. Your downfall shall be an object of awe to the nations of the earth.
No flag pin on McCain's lapel.
How much do you suppose she pays for those haircuts?
No flag pin on McCain's lapel.
But I think we can see the tops of flag staffs at the far left above the woman in shades. Oh, and Cindy's wrist watch is too big.
Cindy McCain always reminds me of one of the great Onion captions of all time. http://www.theonion.com/content/node/34927 She's a dead-ringer for Kurt Warner's wife.
I like McCain's suit in that picture. We need more khaki suits in America. Usually his suits don't fit him that well. McCain's a Spring. The khaki makes his complexion look washed out.
She looks like an alien --- the Roswell kind that hippies have on their bumper stickers and t-shirts.
I think Cindy McCain looks great, but who cares? How she looks is not going to have much impact if she is First Lady, so we should pay a bit more attention to her POV and how she backs up McMaverick.
It'll take a lot more than a haircut and a dress to make K-Lo look like Cindy McCain. The wish seems a bit poignant, though.
But can she skin a muskrat? http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/03/01/muskrat-love-in-maryland.aspx
What bothers me more than her clothing style is the way Cindy McCain always stands just behind St. John's shoulder. As though he needs a nurse to catch him if he starts to wander.
That dress totally looks like the pink Chanel dress Marge Simpson repeatedly wore. Maybe Cindy McCain isn't as wealthy as she seems.
The Obamas look like they stepped out of a Norman Rockwell painting. The McCains look like they stepped out of a George Lincoln Rockwell painting.
I don't know, no offense, but to me she looks really old for her age. At first I thought she was more like 65 rather than 55.
Who is the East German spy/enforcer dude standing next to the McCains? Doesn't he realize the Cold War is over?
What Tom A said. The first thing I thought on seeing that photo was: "It's Marge at the country club."
I want Cindy's stolen pharmaceuticals and criminal defense attorney.
In general, whenever I look at a political wife I want to cry for them. Brightly colored suits, buttoned up to the neck, hems below the knee, pearls and hairspray. Someone's version of appropriate. Dear God let one of them break out of the mold. Carrie Bradshaw for first lady!
I think her style is nice, although wouldn't work for me, but she looks older than she is. Sun damage?
Personally I find Cindy McCain to be more than a little frightening. She may be a nice person, I have no idea. But her look is straight out of the Stepford Wives.
To me she looks like she's beaten a lot of servants half to death. But maybe that's just me.
This K-Lo woman is bonkers. Cindy McCain has bad hair extensions, a bad brow lift, and bad clothes. That St. John suit she's wearing in this picture -- to say nothing of the horrible boxy white purse she's carrying with it -- is awful. There's nothing worth emulating about this look. There are two women in Washington right now who know how to dress: Nancy Pelosi and Condi Rice. End of story.
She's 55? Or even younger; Wikipedia says she was born in 1954, which would makes her 53 or 54. She should sue her plastic surgeon. She looks ten years older at least. Those eyes are scary, and the hairstyles are old lady hairstyles.
Umm... wardrober is a word? Is that a real thing? I feel like I did when I found out that summer was a verb... to people who have a lot in common with Cindy McCain.
Just for the record, Cindy McCain is a MIDWF. Take a random stab at that one. Good god, people, the woman is a reptile.
She's 55? Or even younger; Wikipedia says she was born in 1954, which would makes her 53 or 54. She should sue her plastic surgeon. She looks ten years older at least. That's what the Arizona sun does to you.
I certainly hope there are a few. I'm having a disturbing vision of a dystopian McCain Era in which the Ministry of Hair and Wardrobe What a strange, backwards vision. The only dumb bureacracy I know of that was created by a Republican president or Republican Congress is DHS. The rest of the US government's idiotic, useless agencies came from Carter, FDR, LBJ or the 40-year Dem majority Congress. If anything you should be worried that Clinton or Obama will create Ministries of Silly Walks.
I always wondered if there was some kind of inside joke behind her employment. I don't think it's chauvanist--you might disagree with Shiffren and O'Bierne, but they are hardly cheerleading, grapefeeding, veggie-tales-watching, Santorum-worshipping cretins like Lopez. My theories: b) she's somebody important's daughter/sister/cousin, etc. c) ever see Trading Places? d) Goldberg, feeling particularly lazy one day, hired the first applicant he interviewed and now feels too sorry for her to let her go
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I don't know, Matt... I've always wanted to know what living in the 50s was like.
Posted by Angry Sam | March 5, 2008 9:15 AM