Secrets of the City

It’s just that blondes have so much make-over potential. Her face is like a blank, untouched canvas- as if she’s been living as a nun all these years. I keep looking at her, cutting her hair, making it frame her face, penciling on some eyebrows, getting rid of the glasses….glad to know its not just me. Not that there’s anything wrong with Rowley’s modest and sensible appearance. But if we didn’t enjoy a little misguided decadence, why would we have elected Ventura?

You’re totally right. Business is business: a makeover’s gotta happen.

If she wanted to be something that she isn’t, she wouldn’t be who she is.

So bug off with the makeover baloney, baby.

Not to be too cynical about this, but anyone who thinks they can enter politics without playing the part is probably not in politics for long. That’s not an absolute, but image matters, and even someone like Wellstone needed the occasional nudge from the image consultants.

I don’t know about the ladies who lunch, but actually she looks exactly like a Second District everywoman. If you’ve ever spent any time in Le Seuer or Red Wing, you’ll know what I mean.

style IS important, not in the depressing “fact” that women in politix have to look camera-ready, but in the relationship it bears to the rest of a person(a). i’ve met with and listened to ms. rowley, and her peeple skills are let say analagous to the haircut. she’d be an able and conscientious representative, hopefully the name recognition will be worth something.

plus, since her exit from the fbi she (at the time i met her) had been doing some motivational speaking on integrity; she was very self-aware abt the lameness of this but still.

Rowley has made it very clear that she doesn’t do makeup. After she wins, I predict the “experts” will begin packaging politicians very differently.

We’re ready for a change, and what better way to show you’re different than to refuse to be painted up like a cheap whore.

John Kline looks like a million bucks, but because of his votes, Minnesotans are dead and the homeland is no safer than it ever was.

I’ll take a plain Colleen over a pancaked John anytime.

Style (and voting on it as a campaign issue) only important to the persons who unnecessarily elevate it to such. Cute and all to call for a makeover, but a little disconcerting that you judge your candidates (or even your friends) on what they look like.

Funny how, even so many years removed from Jr. High class president elections, politics can remain such a popularity contest.

That’s just so sanctimonious. No one likes that, wanksta. Read your Gladwell — the problem is that people unconsciously vote like that. It’s been shown over and over and over that images matters — no one’s really saying it should matter, just that it does, and you should get used to playing that game.

While most MNSPEAK readers can probably put physical appearance in its proper perspective, I think recent elections have proven that you can’t give the general voting poulation that much credit.