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Marcela Hoeven Bikini Scandal?

Posted on | August 4, 2010 | 165 Comments

North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven is 47 points ahead in a Senate campaign that is, by all odds, the closest thing to a surefire pick-up for Republicans this fall. And yet it appears that there are some fiendish Democrats who hope that “family values” conservatives will be horrified to discover that the governor’s daughter Marcela looks good in a bikini:

Three years ago, when a North Dakota political blog reported that Marcela, 23 at the time, had a modeling portfolio online, the photos disappeared the next day.  The existence of this lone remaining photo (posted at a North Dakota State University student forum) was brought to my attention by a source who asked my opinion as a communications professional: Is this a scandal?

Short answer: Of course not.

Conservatives are not only smarter and more patriotic than liberals, we’re also better-looking. It’s high time we stopped letting liberals get inside our heads and tell us that it’s some kind of “hypocrisy” for conservatives even to acknowledge the existence of sex.

Here’s a cluebat for you: Mrs. Other McCain and I have six kids. Do you think that might have something to do with the fact that the missus looked good in a swimsuit, to say nothing of my notorious Speedo? On what planet is that supposed to be a scandal?

Remember when Democrats thought they could take down Scott Brown for his Cosmo centerfold? Remember when Democrats tried to make it a “scandal” that Scott Brown’s daughters wore bikinis? And do you remember how Scott Brown kicked their Democrat butts on Election Day?

It’s 2010, conservatives — this year, we’re taking sexy back.

JOHN HOEVEN for U.S. SENATE

(P.S.: Marcela Hoeven works at First Western Bank & Trust in Minot, N.D., which her family has operated for three generations. So she’s a Republican who looks good in a bikini and can balance a checkbook. What’s not to like about that?)

UPDATE (Smitty): Instalanche! Thanks, Professor Reynolds!

UPDATE II (RSM): Everyone is thoroughly scandalized:

And notice that, although Memeorandum is now listing this shocking scandal, lefty bloggers are trying to ignore it. What’s going on here? Bikini-worthy Cassy Fiano explains:

Liberals always like to act shocked that conservative women can be sexy and conservative. . . .  They like to paint conservatives as frigid, dried up, ugly old prudes, and of course, that couldn’t be further from the truth. . . . They’re always shocked when bikini photos do not, in fact, derail conservative candidates’ campaigns.

Exactly what I’ve been trying to explain to Christine O’Donnell‘s campaign staff, but . . .

UPDATE III: If you’ve ever wondered what John Hoeven’s Democratic opponent looks like in a bikini, you’re obviously in need of psychological counseling.

Speaking of twisted minds, what about Judge Walker’s decision in San Francisco v. Schwarzenegger?

Comments

165 Responses to “Marcela Hoeven Bikini Scandal?”

  1. David Henderson
    August 5th, 2010 @ 10:58 am

    As a staunch conservative I am shocked and appalled… that this is the “lone remaining photo”. Now thats a scandal.

  2. Ryan
    August 5th, 2010 @ 3:01 pm

    T.L. Davis: “Blah blah.. George Bush DUI ..Blah blah” Um dude, we came here to check out the chic..and you start talking about George Bush? Um let me see if I can help you. Loosen your belt and look inside. I think you are missing a gonad or two. Look around the house and see if you miss placed them. You will thank me when you get them reattached.

    Brown Line: I’m thinking that is a JPG artifact… OH MY GOD it’s been shopped! Quick stop the press! the real scandal is that she really looks like my grandma (also from Minot ND) and they just photo shopped her to look like a hot banker!

  3. Ryan
    August 5th, 2010 @ 11:01 am

    T.L. Davis: “Blah blah.. George Bush DUI ..Blah blah” Um dude, we came here to check out the chic..and you start talking about George Bush? Um let me see if I can help you. Loosen your belt and look inside. I think you are missing a gonad or two. Look around the house and see if you miss placed them. You will thank me when you get them reattached.

    Brown Line: I’m thinking that is a JPG artifact… OH MY GOD it’s been shopped! Quick stop the press! the real scandal is that she really looks like my grandma (also from Minot ND) and they just photo shopped her to look like a hot banker!

  4. Jay
    August 5th, 2010 @ 3:18 pm

    Why assume she’s conservative?

  5. Jay
    August 5th, 2010 @ 3:18 pm

    Why assume she’s conservative? She post her positions somewhere?

  6. Jay
    August 5th, 2010 @ 11:18 am

    Why assume she’s conservative?

  7. Jay
    August 5th, 2010 @ 11:18 am

    Why assume she’s conservative? She post her positions somewhere?

  8. levine
    August 5th, 2010 @ 3:51 pm

    It’s an obvious photoshoped image. Her face was poorly pasted over the image. The model’s head is looking down and titled to her left, but the face looking forward and is titled to the right

  9. levine
    August 5th, 2010 @ 11:51 am

    It’s an obvious photoshoped image. Her face was poorly pasted over the image. The model’s head is looking down and titled to her left, but the face looking forward and is titled to the right

  10. Perspecticus
    August 5th, 2010 @ 3:53 pm

    Really, tell the truth. This article was just a page-view ploy, right? I mean, what is the point here otherwise? Is it that liberals are supposedly prudes or something? I thought liberals were supposedly perverts? Can they be both?

  11. Perspecticus
    August 5th, 2010 @ 11:53 am

    Really, tell the truth. This article was just a page-view ploy, right? I mean, what is the point here otherwise? Is it that liberals are supposedly prudes or something? I thought liberals were supposedly perverts? Can they be both?

  12. sestamibi
    August 5th, 2010 @ 4:00 pm

    I would think this would be good for MORE Hoeven votes!

  13. sestamibi
    August 5th, 2010 @ 12:00 pm

    I would think this would be good for MORE Hoeven votes!

  14. Joe
    August 5th, 2010 @ 4:16 pm

    Is it Sunday already?

  15. Joe
    August 5th, 2010 @ 12:16 pm

    Is it Sunday already?

  16. Kenyan
    August 5th, 2010 @ 4:26 pm

    Trying to make a scandal out of a Republican in a bathing suit? Why, that’s almost as crazy as trying to make a scanadal out of someone being born in a different country when there’s birth certificates to prove otherwise!

  17. Kenyan
    August 5th, 2010 @ 12:26 pm

    Trying to make a scandal out of a Republican in a bathing suit? Why, that’s almost as crazy as trying to make a scanadal out of someone being born in a different country when there’s birth certificates to prove otherwise!

  18. Slow News Day
    August 5th, 2010 @ 4:29 pm

    while she is really hot, what a terribly written article.

  19. Slow News Day
    August 5th, 2010 @ 12:29 pm

    while she is really hot, what a terribly written article.

  20. Not Likely
    August 5th, 2010 @ 4:40 pm

    So, the story here is dumb liberals were going to run with this story, and now that YOU’VE run the story, all you can point out is that liberals are trying to ignore it? That’s some high quality logic.

  21. Not Likely
    August 5th, 2010 @ 12:40 pm

    So, the story here is dumb liberals were going to run with this story, and now that YOU’VE run the story, all you can point out is that liberals are trying to ignore it? That’s some high quality logic.

  22. Randy Rager
    August 5th, 2010 @ 4:43 pm

    “Really, tell the truth. This article was just a page-view ploy, right? I mean, what is the point here otherwise? Is it that liberals are supposedly prudes or something? I thought liberals were supposedly perverts? Can they be both?”

    “Liberals” are ignorant dirtbags who think that Conservatives are far more prudish than they actually are.

  23. Wes
    August 5th, 2010 @ 4:43 pm

    Robert, there’s a rule in photography for photographing women: If the woman is pretty, she’s told to smile to enhance her attractiveness. f the woman is beautiful, she’s told to give the sulky, pouty look rather than smile so as to keep the focus on her hotness rather than her smile. That’s why Marcela has the sulky, pouty look rather than a smile.

  24. Randy Rager
    August 5th, 2010 @ 12:43 pm

    “Really, tell the truth. This article was just a page-view ploy, right? I mean, what is the point here otherwise? Is it that liberals are supposedly prudes or something? I thought liberals were supposedly perverts? Can they be both?”

    “Liberals” are ignorant dirtbags who think that Conservatives are far more prudish than they actually are.

  25. Wes
    August 5th, 2010 @ 12:43 pm

    Robert, there’s a rule in photography for photographing women: If the woman is pretty, she’s told to smile to enhance her attractiveness. f the woman is beautiful, she’s told to give the sulky, pouty look rather than smile so as to keep the focus on her hotness rather than her smile. That’s why Marcela has the sulky, pouty look rather than a smile.

  26. Jack
    August 5th, 2010 @ 5:34 pm

    Conservatives are hotter??? Hahahahahahaha. Stacy…Smitty…you looked in a mirror lately?

  27. Jack
    August 5th, 2010 @ 1:34 pm

    Conservatives are hotter??? Hahahahahahaha. Stacy…Smitty…you looked in a mirror lately?

  28. Bob Belvedere
    August 5th, 2010 @ 5:44 pm

    Hoeven…
    I’m in Hoeven…
    And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
    And I seem to find the happiness I seek
    When we’re out together banking cheek to cheek

  29. Bob Belvedere
    August 5th, 2010 @ 1:44 pm

    Hoeven…
    I’m in Hoeven…
    And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
    And I seem to find the happiness I seek
    When we’re out together banking cheek to cheek

  30. Jeff
    August 5th, 2010 @ 6:52 pm

    Liberals become latte sipping elitist ivy league intellectuals out of touch with the values of the common man by being poor dumb ugly riff-raff seeking a hand out.

    I’m confused now.

  31. Jeff
    August 5th, 2010 @ 2:52 pm

    Liberals become latte sipping elitist ivy league intellectuals out of touch with the values of the common man by being poor dumb ugly riff-raff seeking a hand out.

    I’m confused now.

  32. richard mcenroe
    August 5th, 2010 @ 7:16 pm

    Stacy, I hate to bring this up, but in line with the Prop 8 ruling you have to post a photo of a dude in a revealing swimsuit or there’ll be a lawsuit. Sorry, man, not my call…

  33. richard mcenroe
    August 5th, 2010 @ 3:16 pm

    Stacy, I hate to bring this up, but in line with the Prop 8 ruling you have to post a photo of a dude in a revealing swimsuit or there’ll be a lawsuit. Sorry, man, not my call…

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  35. Pat
    August 5th, 2010 @ 8:26 pm

    why do the left assume conservatives are racist/sexist/homophobic/prudish you ask- well you only asked one but it’s the same answer for all. Because conservatives, by definition, only accept ideas once they’ve been tried and found to work, or at least cause no harm. 60 years ago racism was accepted and had been time out of mind. ditto sexism, homophobia, prudishness, and so conservatives were slow to discard these attitudes- we wanted evidence that it was safe to do so. Now we’ve got the evidence, we’ve abandoned the attitudes.
    Of course the left is rather slow to realise that times have changed- they’re not much into evidence, they prefer lectures from old time radicals.

  36. Pat
    August 5th, 2010 @ 4:26 pm

    why do the left assume conservatives are racist/sexist/homophobic/prudish you ask- well you only asked one but it’s the same answer for all. Because conservatives, by definition, only accept ideas once they’ve been tried and found to work, or at least cause no harm. 60 years ago racism was accepted and had been time out of mind. ditto sexism, homophobia, prudishness, and so conservatives were slow to discard these attitudes- we wanted evidence that it was safe to do so. Now we’ve got the evidence, we’ve abandoned the attitudes.
    Of course the left is rather slow to realise that times have changed- they’re not much into evidence, they prefer lectures from old time radicals.

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  38. Kojocaro
    August 5th, 2010 @ 9:36 pm

    now the usual suspects are outraged that a widow whose husband perished in the mumbai attacks is being allowed to stay in the USA if she were a muslim trying to gain asylum here the usual suspects would just let her in and btw she’s not a terrorist btw the trolls are out here in full force

  39. Kojocaro
    August 5th, 2010 @ 5:36 pm

    now the usual suspects are outraged that a widow whose husband perished in the mumbai attacks is being allowed to stay in the USA if she were a muslim trying to gain asylum here the usual suspects would just let her in and btw she’s not a terrorist btw the trolls are out here in full force

  40. Berto
    August 5th, 2010 @ 10:52 pm

    So where’s the link to some liberal/ Dem site using this photo to attempt to sway public opinion on the election?
    or is this yet another figment of RSM’s imagination gone wild?

  41. Berto
    August 5th, 2010 @ 6:52 pm

    So where’s the link to some liberal/ Dem site using this photo to attempt to sway public opinion on the election?
    or is this yet another figment of RSM’s imagination gone wild?

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  43. amaro
    August 6th, 2010 @ 12:12 am

    OK.
    She’s got my vote, maybe she can balance the budget too.

  44. amaro
    August 5th, 2010 @ 8:12 pm

    OK.
    She’s got my vote, maybe she can balance the budget too.

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  46. nicholas
    August 6th, 2010 @ 3:02 am

    “And I seem to find the happiness I seek,

    When we’re out together banking cheek to cheek”

    Belvedere! I knew it!!

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    “And I seem to find the happiness I seek,

    When we’re out together banking cheek to cheek”

    Belvedere! I knew it!!

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