America's Obsession with Breasts

Apparently Margery Eagan couldn't think of anything else to write about but the GOP wive's breasts and cleavage.

Does the heaving bosom play well among Bible Belt Republicans? Among New Hampshire primary voters?

How else to explain, as debate week begins, the bursting out all over by GOP front-runners’ wives? What’s with this ample - and aging - display of decolletage?

Mrs. John McCain, 52, just gave Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren an at-home tour wearing this tight, bubble-gum-pink wraparound shirt cut to her sternum. Three inches of cleavage. Poor Greta, the consummate professional in blue blazer and yellow button-down, didn’t know where to look.

Meanwhile nearly half the pictures you see of Judy Nathan, aka Mrs. Giuliani, also 52, are very bosomy. Is this supposed to convince those wondering about Rudy - you know, after he bunked with the gay guys post divorce #2 - that he’s not just A Big Hetero but A Big Hetero Who Loves Big Hetero Breasts?

Flashed around the country Thursday was yet another full cleavage shot of Fred Thompson’s child wife looking almost as well-endowed as Alex Rodriguez’s stripper/pole-dancer girlfriend. “That was quite a dress,” said one GOP analyst, breathless.

Does this really matter? Eagan notes we haven't seen any Democratic cleavage, and again, why does this matter?

The women we are talking about here are confident, attractive baby boomers who have grown up in a society in which they have been told that you can be sexy and smart at the same time and its okay to be a woman and flaunt it. Now that their husbands are running for President, do we really expect them to suddenly become these dour, matronly women covered from neck to knee in some attire that their mothers wore?

So long as the potential first ladies are dancing with a pole like Alex Rodriguez's girlfriend, the fact that they dress like confident women of the 21st Century doesn't bother me in the least and I don't think the American public cares either.