Great Congressional Makeover?

Personally I don't see what the big deal is. There's no reason in the world that someone can't be attractive and intelligent.
If you got the goods why not show em off?

Congressional candidate who posed for Maxim wants you to get over it

This congressional candidate’s resume includes a degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, a White House gig — and a Maxim photo spread.

But Alejandra Campoverdi, who is running for California’s 34th district, has a powerful message for any critics of the latter. She pushes back against sexism she has faced for the photos in an essay for Cosmopolitan titled “I Posed For Maxim and I’m Running for Congress. It Shouldn’t Be That Shocking.”

Campoverdi opens up in the essay about the “double standard” on the campaign trail, saying many of her experiences are not unique.

“Sexism and misogyny are nothing new in politics. Female political staffers and politicians have been facing off-color comments and leering glances and have been excluded from ‘at capacity’ meetings for decades,” she writes.~snip~

I do have to say though that I'm a little disturbed by the tendency of female candidates preempting their possible loss by claiming sexism and misogyny up front before the votes are cast.

It's a poor strategy that assumes the ideas that the candidate is running on don't deserve to be examined.
Instead failure can be attributed to prurient interest as opposed to a faulty message.

Leftist Vapors

I'm pretty conservative but the truth is this doesn't faze me one little bit. An attractive young lady trying to make it in modeling really can't turn down very much to get exposure.

Pics at the link.

 Melania Trump like you’ve never seen her before

Donald Trump thinks his wife will be a model first lady — and here’s the proof.

Decades before she was sporting designer dresses on the stage of the Republican National Convention as Mrs. Trump, Melania Knauss posed nude in a photo spread for a now-defunct French men’s magazine, The Post has learned.

The leggy, Slovenian-born model — then 25 years old and known by her professional moniker Melania K. — did the steamy photo session in Manhattan in 1995, according to Alé de Basse­ville, the French photographer who shot the sexy snaps.

The images, some rarely seen and others never published, were obtained exclusively by The Post.~

Right there in bold really tells the story, if she wasn't married to Trump then no one would give them a second thought.
People need to stop being so easily manipulated by the biased media.