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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?

Category: North Dakota, Rule 5, Senate

Comments

165 Responses to “Marcela Hoeven Bikini Scandal?”

  1. Bob Belvedere
    August 6th, 2010 @ 8:35 am

    Your a good man, Nicholas.

  2. V
    August 6th, 2010 @ 3:54 pm

    Ugh, I’d like to know who the “photographer” was because this does not look like part of a modeling portfolio — more like a private picture taken for a boyfriend or a sleezebag “give me $100, take off your clothes & I’ll make you a model” con artist. Nothing about the photography looks professionally done.

  3. V
    August 6th, 2010 @ 11:54 am

    Ugh, I’d like to know who the “photographer” was because this does not look like part of a modeling portfolio — more like a private picture taken for a boyfriend or a sleezebag “give me $100, take off your clothes & I’ll make you a model” con artist. Nothing about the photography looks professionally done.

  4. Kendra
    August 6th, 2010 @ 7:08 pm

    Libs are jealous. THEY ARE THE DRIED UP PRUDES BECAUSE THEY COULDN’T GIVE THEIR BODIES AWAY — LOOK AT GLORIA STEINEM, BELLA ABSUG, HILLARY CLINTON — DAUGTHER, CHELSEA — WITH SURGERY, SHE IS STILL BUTT – UGLY! OH, AND THE MEN?? ARE THEY MEN??? BUT, ONLY HALF THE MAN, MARCELA IS!

  5. Kendra
    August 6th, 2010 @ 3:08 pm

    Libs are jealous. THEY ARE THE DRIED UP PRUDES BECAUSE THEY COULDN’T GIVE THEIR BODIES AWAY — LOOK AT GLORIA STEINEM, BELLA ABSUG, HILLARY CLINTON — DAUGTHER, CHELSEA — WITH SURGERY, SHE IS STILL BUTT – UGLY! OH, AND THE MEN?? ARE THEY MEN??? BUT, ONLY HALF THE MAN, MARCELA IS!

  6. GMO
    August 6th, 2010 @ 7:21 pm

    Who looks at that photo and says, “well, you just lost my vote, Hoeven!” No one in North Dakota…

  7. GMO
    August 6th, 2010 @ 3:21 pm

    Who looks at that photo and says, “well, you just lost my vote, Hoeven!” No one in North Dakota…

  8. Herr Morgenholz
    August 7th, 2010 @ 7:18 pm

    Any Sunday morning talk show or a glimpse at the Fox News babes could tell anyone what we already know: conservative babes are hot.

    And when was the last time you saw a liberal woman with 4 kids?

  9. Herr Morgenholz
    August 7th, 2010 @ 3:18 pm

    Any Sunday morning talk show or a glimpse at the Fox News babes could tell anyone what we already know: conservative babes are hot.

    And when was the last time you saw a liberal woman with 4 kids?

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  12. Kevin
    August 11th, 2010 @ 2:26 am

    I wonder if she pays more in ND income taxes than federal income taxes like I do thanks to her old man?

  13. Kevin
    August 10th, 2010 @ 10:26 pm

    I wonder if she pays more in ND income taxes than federal income taxes like I do thanks to her old man?

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