Man, you have some seriously low standards. Were you picking interns for Clinton?

Now some of the Al Gore daughters , . .

I've got a thing for leggy brunettes -- what can I say?

No, no. He's right. Hottie is a funny thing. It's usually the sum of a woman's looks and intelligence and overall attitude, and is often in inverse proportion to her likelihood of being interested in you.

But sometimes, every once in a while, hottie just kinda happens. For no apparent reason. But it's undeniable.

Example: Alexandra Kerry is a hottie. (The brunette, she of the drowning-hamster story and the infamous Internet pictures of her boobies, is Alexandra.)

'Nother example: Maura Tierney is a hottie. Another case where a woman's hottie factor FAR outweighs the sum of her component characteristics.

(Is it bad that I have a whole semiotics of "hottie?")

Jeff,

You are so right, especially regarding Maura Tierny. I've had a crush on her since Newsradio (the best sitcom of the last 25 years, at least) so big, that I was able to forgive her for "Liar, Liar."

Anyway, I saved both of her appearances on Bravo's Celebrity Poker on the TiVo. Eventually, I'll save them to DVD, so I can show the next generation what a real hottie is like.

I agree, Alexandra is quite attractive. But if we're going to talk about political daughters, I think that the Bush daughters deserve mention--especially the brunette one. She is seriously fit. Which one is she?

I was at the MTV VMA's tonight. My sister works for Clear Channel Productions and was able to get me and my SO tickets. There was booing while the Kerry girls were onstage, but it's hard to determine who the booing was directed at. What the audience at home couldn't see, was that the Bush twins were onscreen behind the Kerry girls during the booing. So who was being booed? The Kerry girls onstage, or the Bush twins onscreen? Or both? :)

Here I make several confessions.

I was at Yale in 1972, a senior with the typical constant yearning for an amiable female. I'm quite sure on one of my excursions into the sanctuaries of the Law School I bumped into Hillary and made some sly suggestion that has dogged my career ever since.

As a fiddler, I've always loved practicing and playing in a stairwell late at night, if I can find a place where I won't be making anyone insane. When I lived in the Bay area, I occasionally hung out at Stanford. When Chelsea Clinton enrolled, I was smart enough to stop hanging around there, cause I KNEW I would get in trouble...

It is well documented that young ladies are inordinately attracted to MEN in positions of authority and power. I think it is simply less well documented that dirty old men, even in their youth, are inordinately vulnerable to attractive daughters of men in positions of Power and Authority.

Lyndon Johnson's daughters...

Nixon's daughters...

Gerald Ford's daughter...

Considering the dowdy frumpy styles and fashions that prevailed, even Margaret Truman was kinda cute.

I know this is an extremely WIERD bunch of musings. It is very likely that in any other age, or in many other countries, confessions like these would result in an extended vacation in a stone room, constrained by chain links and bars.

Hmmmm. Then again, there was Carter's daughter.

Well, it's ONLY a theory.

Jheka: If the booing got LOUDER when the Kerry daugfhters tried to pimp for their daddy, it's a good bet that it wasn't the Bush girls that were being booed. Besides, if it was, don't you think that our "fair and unbiased" press would be all over it like a Kennedy on a drunk hooker?

I have to agree that they're attractive, but it's one of those cases where the offspring resemble the parent a little too close for comfort. Like Lisa Marie Presley.

Honestly, how long would it be until the words "oh god I'm making out with John Kerry" crosses your mind and ruins everything?

And really...rejected by MTV watchers? Is Kerry actually doing that badly?

Pochahontas says, "Be quiet."

I'm with Mike M.; it's too easy for the fantasy to dissolve into "I voted for this consensual interaction before I voted against it."

Probably not the place and time for politics. The people attending the event did not go there for a political speech. Plus, the 20-something age bracket just doesn't vote in large numbers.

BTW, with regard to hottieness, I think smile also should be there. Man, a nice warm smile and I just melt....

Hate Kerry. Can't stand him.

I wouldn't have booed his daughters, though. To me, that's like booing the other teams marching band at a football game. Boo the players, boo the coaches, boo the refs. But boo the band? That's just tacky.

"rock and roll establishment"

"rock and roll establishment"

"rock and roll establishment"

"rock and roll establishment"

"rock and roll establishment"

Uggh. I look at both of Kerry's daughters and think of Mr. Ed. Not that W's are any better.

Alexandra is OK, but Vanessa seriously looks like John Kerry in drag...

Holy cow...just heard clips of this on the radio. The Kerry girls got nailed big time, way worse than just some booing. I do kinda feel bad for them now.

Vodkapundit,

I saw that part of the show, check out my blog extra details.

Palooka

I went to the Michigan's Rosebowl in '98. We didn't boo the band, but the were some very derogatory chants, like "High School Ba-and."

I wouldn't boo the girls, but I'd see what they'd do to earn a vote for daddy.

Personally, I'm not going to be on Men's Health covers any time soon, so I'm just happy to be punching above my weight class with the Monkette2B.

Nonetheless, I stand by my statement earlier. I'm still thinking you had too much of the product for which this blog is named if y'all think Alexandra is a hottie. First, she has facelikehorse. Second, that pic of her at Cannes, when she's supposed to be at her best for hobnobbing with the Hollywood crowd, is just hideous -- between the grannypanties and the fallen frontal -- not good at all.

I agree, the other one looks like Kerry in drag after a bad use of a facial depilatory. Even worse, she's the younger of the two.

Odd. I watched the VMA's on tv, and maybe it was just the coverage, but all I could hear was NOISE. I couldn't really tell if it was cheering or booing, it was just loud.

(picking up the conversation hours and hours later)

Oh, yeah, I forgot about Maura Tierney's turn on the poker show. That's another contributing factor. She's scorchingly attractive and she can also rob me blind of all of my money.

The Brunette one must have been conceived with the help of the mailman. Because the blonde has the, "a horse walks into a bar..." look.

It's clear the boos were directed at the Kerry progeny... when they said that they hoped the crowd would vote for their father, the boos grew louder than ever.

Some kids don't like being preached to by people assuming they will vote Dem (read: MTV, who "forgot" to put together an inaugural ball for Bush the way they did for Clinton, twice), no matter the packaging.

Steve,

Thanks for this post. Glad somebody has their priorities straight.

When watching at home,I heard alot of boos and cheers when Kerry daughters spoke,and it certainly picked up when the one asked for vote for dad.As to Bush daughters,I was struck by how silent crowd seemed while they spoke,and I seem to remember screen behind Kerry daughters blank while they spoke.Certainly the impression I gained was Kerry daughters were stunned and unhappy w/crowd reaction to them.MTV sure didn't show any shots of crowd reaction,just a couple of nervous celebs applauding.

So which one is the tall brunette with the strong legs. Strong legs are a turn-on for me. They suggest endurance in physical events.

There comes a time to, ah, lay politics aside. And that time, uh, comes when hotties are on the stage.

Stage, no; lap, yes.

If you really like Alexandra then you will want to check out her wardrobe here.

Neigh!

Mark G., that pic is actually LESS revealing than the one Neal Boortz had posted on his site. Must've been the photoshopping by Snopes -- darkened the picture so as to avoid scaring off the websurfers.

Really, it's no contest: Barbara Bush Jr. (Jenna's twin) over either Kerry sister in a landslide. Barbara Jr. is so niiiiiiiiice she about makes my Friends list (the five people you can sleep with outside your relationship and not have a break-up).

Any one have a clip?

I never let politics get in the way of my judgment of the finer things. I am with Monk on this one. I see the Kerry girls and I think about the Kentucky Derby.

With all due respect Steve, I disagree, if ever there was a place where people would, uh, lay politics aside when two hotties come up on stage, it's here, and the fact that they didn't here is really bad news for Kerry.

The real problem with politics is too many people let who they think is hotter or cooler determine which lever they pull, and the MTV crowd is the center of that little style of substance movement. That they turned on the hottie pushing the liberal candidate is even worse news for Kerry.

Good news for America though.

Actually, it was the BUSH twins that were being booed. But nice try anyway.

Matt:

(cheering and no booing at all; the lights come up on the Kerry girls)

"My sister and I are thrilled to be here with you all tonight in Florida."

(booing starts)

"And to get this chance..."

(booing swells, Vanessa does a shoulder-check to see what the heck they're booing at, finds nothin' but the VMA logo and a background of clouds)

"And get this chance to suggest..."

(Alexandra makes "shushing" motion)

"that you get involved in this election and vote, and hopefully that you vote for our father."

(serious, no-foolin'-around booing begins, accompanied by some cheering; Alexandra takes the mike)

"Over forty-eight... over... this is very important..."

(more booing, Alexandra is almost drowned out)

"Over forty-eight million young Americans can help make that decision. But..."

(booing and hooting again)

"We appreciate that in our democracy people are free to differently about who they vote for."

(unprecedented booing; clip ends)

Tell me again how it was the Bush girls who were being booed?

Don't believe me? Check the tape for yourself. This was no misunderstanding. This was no boating accident. This audience of disaffected and apathetic twentysomethings booed the Kerry girls off the stage.

"She's scorchingly attractive and she can also rob me blind of all of my money."

Uh, isn't that redundant?

Stephen pointed out in a subsequent email that it was, in fact, redundant.

I meant at the poker table, of course, but it seems kinda pointless to mention that now.