Are Americans Too Image Conscious To Elect A Fat President?

[MarcATL]

Are we becoming less image-conscious as a nation?

Or are we becoming more so?

I say the latter...what say you? And why?

I don't see it so much a matter of image, as a matter of self-control. Why would someone allow themself to get that heavy....and, threaten their health.

An "addiction" to food/drink is no different than an addiction to anything-else; someone's tryin' to compensate for something!

If Christie was serious about a Presidential-run, he'd "show" it. Ask Mike Huckabee....

We've already had a President (recently) that had no self-control......

.....and, we're STILL paying for that one.​

You sho'l rite 'bout dat one!!!

You say you folks as if I fit into your Preconceived Version of me. I am not a Republican, and I have 0 say in who the Candidates are.

What I am is a fiscally conservative, socially Liberal Independent. Who believes The Left wing of the Democrat Party, who is in control of the party today, is even worse than Bush was for this country. I think giving Obama the WH while his party had near super Majorities in Both houses was a mistake. I thought it was a mistake when Bush had Both houses as well. I do not like the Idea of either party being fully in control.

I will be voting Republican for the WH this time around because the Fiscal Conservative in me thinks Obama and Democrats Polcies are unsustainable and destructive. Not because I like Republicans. Unless of course Obama makes some wild change of Direction and convinces me we are done with the Insane Deficit spending, and considering he just fought over cutting 39 Billion. I doubt that will happen.

On a personal Level I would vote for a fat Candidate. Chris Christi in particular. Not really a Newt Fan. However I acknowledge you are right. Being Fat would put him at a disadvantage, Though I don't think as bad as you think. While we do care about Image a lot. You have to remember that over half of Americans are over weight themselves, which means over half the people voting are fat as well. You would think.

Conventional wisdom says your right, but we all know that today's average joe is neither conventional or wise.

Take a look at, just about any magazine, as you check out of your local supermarket...almost everything is talking about losing weight, or about how you look.

In women's magazine's its all about how to trick your man into X, in men's its all about how to get a woman to, X. The women are BOMBARDED with losing weight. Its already late night...so you should be able to find tons of ads pushing pills and other BS contraptions that tells the watcher they will lose weight the easy way.

The more people are fat, the more they worship the thin...that's the society we live in now.

Since you claim not to be a RWer, I'll fall for it...so THEY should be careful in who they choose...if they know what's good for them.

I don't know who you are, but what is abundantly clear is, you have no idea what you're talking about. liberal independent, lol Do you mean libertarian? If so, that negates the conservative part.here's a fun fact. Doesn't it seem odd that fat people are the ones complaining but never the ones that are proactive(unless auditioning for biggest loser counts). Here's another fun fact. The TEA PARTY are the ones who first coined the phrase tea bagger. You see, not only do they not know what it conotates, but they actually have NO idea what the boston tea party was even about. Here's another fun fact. The tea party republicans(aka OLD white people) don't know, that the boston tea party was put together by the freemasons, the worlds oldest socialist group. Oh, by the way, they were also in part, our founding fathers. And thanking Obama for the tea baggers? really?!? So what you're saying is, to avoid upsetting the tea brained republicans, we should avoid having a colored commander in chief. Bearing in mind that 90% of what Obama is trying to institute, are republican ideas. Check you political history if you don't believe me. If President BARACK OBAMA is so radical with his views and polices and it's destroying this country, then where was the tea party when nixon tried to introduce them? Or reagan? bush sr.? I know, they waited for dubya right? Wrong. They didn't even do that to clinton, the weed smoking draft dodger, that had extra marital affairs while IN the white house. And let's not forget trading secrets with the Chinese,(that was one of the republican complaints) you know the country that practically owns us AND N.A.F.T.A. the program that Both sides said was a mistake. Where was your tea party then? Well I guess the old saying is true(if it's all white, it's all right). Please, prove that there was ANY president in recent history that was treated with more disrespect or contempt. For that matter, in History. Special note, assassinations don't count, you see, the only ones that got popped, were killed for helping blacks.

P.S. It doesn't count as a super majority, when you have such a thing as blue dog democrats aka dino's (democrats in name only) see, they represent conservative districts (blanch lincoln etc) so they vote to stay paid and employed, not to help you and I. Sorry

KA-POW!!!!

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[JamesInFlorida]

Taft was in office a hundred years ago (literally). You can't compare the culture of America back then to what it is today. I highly doubt somebody who looked like Taft, FDR, Lincoln, etc. would ever be voted into the oval office today.