Dressing Down for the Presidency

[babylonsister]

Petty maybe, but good point.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/03/03/dressing_down_for_the_presidency.html

Dressing Down for the Presidency


Joe Queenan: "I was watching the Georgetown-Notre Dame basketball game Monday night and was struck by how dapper the coaches looked. And not just the coaches, but the assistant coaches. And the assistant-assistant coaches. Fancy shirts. Classy ties. Elegant suits..."

"Then I switched over to Rick Santorum giving a speech somewhere, and he was sporting the usual undone dress shirt, with no tie, with the generic blue-jeans thing going on. Which is basically the same choreographed man-of-the-people look as Mitt Romney, only with more of a J.C. Penney's twist. The Casual Friday Look. The Would-Be Maverick Look. The Hapless on the Hustings Look. The look that says: I went all the way to K Street and all I got was this lousy shirt."

"You're running for the most important office in the entire world, and here you are dressing like somebody working the night shift at Wal-Mart."

[Drunken Irishman]

1. Not only does he look ridiculous, he (Romney) seems so out of place in what he's wearing.

He didn't dress like that in 2008. It's remarkable how fake he is.

I don't have a problem with him campaigning without a tie and suit. I get that. But look at Obama campaigning...





Classy without being overly formal.

[IndyJones]

2. Does this mean you don't like Romney's mom jeans or Santorum's sweater vest?

[Drunken Irishman]

3. ...

[a kennedy]

4. No, that's the common man look....

that's the I'm one of you guy's look, that's the you wanna have a beer with me look. NOT!!! Ugh.

[NYC Liberal]

5. Hey, John Q. Adams used to swim naked in the Potomic every morning when he was president.

Let's hope none of the Repugs take up THAT tradition.

[CoreyAndrews]

6. No Jeans

Romney just needs to give up the jeans. We all know he's wearing dress pants under them.

[sofa king]

7. Not quite dress pants, though.

Just a dress:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_garment

Edit: If you ask me, the "rouge-neck" look of jeans and a collared shirt was solidified as a campaign tactic by Tom Harkin in 1992. He didn't win the Democratic nomination, but he did a lot of damage to George W. Bush in the primaries by attracting populist interest. If I recall correctly, Bush the Smarter adopted the rougeneck look later that summer.

(1992 was also the year that blond Dick Gephardt learned he could improve his popularity by coloring in fake eyebrows, because yes, the American people really are that stupid, god bless us.)