Do ya think he's sexy? At nearly 70, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is TV's newest stud

Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 12/29/01 | Beth Gillin

[Marylander]

I've been reading the posts about Power being an ingredient of adoration and that may be a plus - but Clinton and Kissinger both had power and they would NEVER make my list of men that I admire or would even want to know!!

Yeah, what you said.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Well, I also have to admit that even though Rumsfeld is older than my dad (and almost twice my age), I still think he's handsome and I adore his very dry sense of humor.

So yeah, I guess I do have a little bit of a crush on him. :-D

[tillacum]

No, it's Bawnee Fuuank.

[Savage Beast]

"Bill Clinton forced all men into the gutter..." I know you didn't mean this, Fox--not you, not me, and not millions of our brothers. But many--men and women--readily jumped right into the gutter with him--including many "celebrities", many politicians, and most of the so-called "journalists" of the mainstream media. History has recorded for all time just who these people are and how ready they were for the gutter, which is exactly where they belong and will remain for all time. It is refreshing to see people recognize true virtue and honor.

[Churchillspirit]

This guy is as cute as a bug

Agreed. I'd make his hot chocolate any night!!

[jgdiamond]

Compare that to John Edwards who is good-looking, but nothing more. Even snakes are pretty, but sexy? No way.

Why is the media is always trying to foist Edwards off on the public as being handsome (along with John Kerry)? I don't see the attraction with either one of them.

[jgdiamond]

Yes, and dontcha love the way Rummy deals with the media?!

Yes I do, as a matter of fact! I find it funny that even though he slaps them down they don't seem to resent him for it. I bet it's because he has earned their R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

[Savage Beast]

"...that's more attractive than a high-profile married man who's easily available for nookie." There's a counterpart to that too. A real man wants a real woman--not some sleaze-bag. A little piece of nookie is always available, but who's desperate enough to want to settle for that? Certainly not me.

[Savage Beast]

Feminists tried to drain the testosterone out of the male population, but they were doomed to failure. We've just got too damned much of it, and we just keep on manufacturing it all around the clock. I don't think we real men were ever out of vogue, not with real women. Maybe with feminazis...Liberal fruits...and other assorted jackasses.

[NYC GOP Chick]

If you shared a cubicle with the likes of Richard Berke, you would be starved for ANY male attention, no matter how boorish.

That's the funniest thing I've read so far today. :-D

Oh, and I've been doing some serious shopping at a certain store, even ordering over the web when I can't find it in the store. :-)

[VOA]

He's as self-assured as a bull in a cow pasture.

And hands out pearls of wisdom to the dimwits (Democrats) of the press corps...not B.S.

If I was younger, I'd get to the T-shirt shop and get a shirt silk-screened with something
like this:
"When I grow up,
I want to be a Rummy"

[Slyfox]

But many--men and women--readily jumped right into the gutter with him--including...

I agree with you. Clinton's main job in life, I believe, was to get all of us into the gutter with him. Some of the people you mentioned, the liberals, the celebrities, the mainstream media, all those who pandered to Clinton, worked like dogs to push us all down with them. (Everytime I hear a comedian cracking a masturbation joke I feel myself being pulled into the gutter.) I know I wasn't the only one fighting to get loose of their hold but none of us escaped being soiled by it all. When Dubya became President we finally could wash the gutter water off ourselves.

It does feel real good to be standing on the sidewalk once again.

[habs4ever]

I figured you'd make an appearance on this thread :-D Rummy is an anomaly in gov't in that he views competence as his highest goal, and when fighting a war, well, that's a good thing to aspire.So, you don't hear the prevarication or the hand wringing when he speaks;he just gets down to doing the job, and the media all thought this was going to be his undoing PRIOR to 9/11 when the stories of his unpopularity abounded.Tells you what the Washington press corp think of able,results oriented managers.Rummy believes in accountabilty, while his detractors don't, but, I'd say that is a hallmark of all natural leaders and good CEO's.

[nunya bidness]

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[bootless]

Rumsfeld strides in. Grasping the situation immediately, he grabs the receiver and barks, "Get off the phone, Al. Now!" A startled Gore hangs up.

I went into Overlaugh on that one. Funny because it's true.

Steely confidence is admired, in burly firemen, guys who attack armed hijackers with their bare hands, 19-year-olds who parachute into battlefields in the middle of the night - and straight-shooting Rummy, the senior with swagger.

Manly men, every one. It's good to have them back.

Yes!!!

[Defiant]

No doubt about it, Donald Rumsfeld is a stud muffin.

Oh sure, he's a bespectacled government bureaucrat pushing 70. But the secretary of defense has a quality that many women adore.

He's as self-assured as a bull in a cow pasture.

The whole thing is a little demeaning, it seems to me. Rumsfeld never set out to be anything but what he is, a no-nonsense administrater who has a job to do, and didn't let the '90s change his view of the right way to do things. The only reason anyone considers him sexy is because Clinton gave people the idea that his power was sexy. (It sure wasn't that flabby, pasty flesh of his). No Clinton, no talk of someone like Rumsfeld being "sexy". To coin a phrase, "let's move on", and get the policy debate away from such silly talk, which diminishes the importance of the matters at hand.

Rummy Sexy?

[Avoiding_Sulla]

I knew a few would get past my first sentence to see what I was driving at. Having seen some of your other work, it's not surprising you responded with understanding.

Let me help improve your morale a bit more. You wrote:

1. Bill Clinton forced all men into the gutter as he made himself, with the media's help, the lowest common denominator.
2.It is refreshing to see people recognize true virtue and honor it.
3.It's just that we are working overtime to pull ourselves out of the gutter Clinton forced us all into, women included.

1. (I think you meant Clinton forced the standard into the gutter, as if he were the standard most men would strive for (actually reinforcing the media's Feminazi expectations). But what you wrote lets me stress a more important point.)
No Man can be forced into the gutter by Bill Clinton or anybody else unless willing. Others' choice of perceptions are not their fault. It's why the wise use a Godly standard, not the human, to establish their character. This is true even of those who don't call themselves religious. (We can thank God for that too.) :)

2.Yes it is. It's wonderful so many blossomed, that we recognize the real thing after so long a draught. It's also why articles like this one have popped up like toadstools after a soaking. See? The fungi, too, come out to the sites of known decay -- because that's all they know.

3.I doubt you were really there. But whether or not you were, you will help others see they're gonna be happier striving for the higher standard, and that is a very good standard to set for yourself. Keep it up. The battle has just begun.

[abclily]

Intelligence is the given that results in honesty.

[paws_and_whiskers]

He's simply purrrfect!

[LADY J]

"The whole thing is a little demeaning, it seems to me. Rumsfeld never set out to be anything but what he is, a no-nonsense administrater who has a job to do, and didn't let the '90s change his view of the right way to do things. The only reason anyone considers him sexy is because Clinton gave people the idea that his power was sexy."

Clinton NEVER gave sensible people the idea that his power was sexy. He just showed them that power can be sleazy!

Rumsfeld did not seek to have anyone think that he is sexy. WE decided that he was.

It's NOT demeaning to think someone is sexy and to say so!! To say that is to imply that we are incapable of having more than one thought at a time! We can be dead serious about politics - the war - and many other things and still think that Rummy is sexy!