I think this should be filed under "you know who" going to the home of the tax collector to break bread.
IOW you go where needed, not always where welcome.
(s)of course if this was Bill Clinton it would be a private meeting where everyone would speculate as to position. In this case we know President GWB is going home with his wife and she will be happy about that. (/s)
Umm, what exactly
are you saying? That Mary
getting involved with
Republicans is
like Jesus interacting
with tax collectors?
Or Republicans
mixing with porn tycoons are
like Jesus mixing
with tax collectors?
(Mary Carey as Jesus
is an ... odd ... concept.)
If this happened during the Clinton Presidency, how do you think most here would have reacted? No big deal, or the end of civilization as we know it?