Do you "love" Laura Bush? An unscientific DU poll! [View All]

[CBHagman]

The other night I was reading the cover story of this weekend's Washington Post Magazine. Pollsters Richard Morin and Claudia Deane (I hope I have the names right) were providing an overview of polling data and developments from the 2000 election and comparing it with today. I was working my way through the article when I stopped cold at a sentence comparing the relative merits of the candidates' wives. The authors of the article proclaimed that "Everybody loves Laura Bush, a former librarian who dresses sensibly," but that Teresa Heinz Kerry might be "too cosmopolitan" for the American people. They cited the PRONUNCIATION OF HER NAME as a possible problem.

Now, aside from the gratuitous Mama T bashing, I was pretty cross about the big assumption regarding Laura Bush. After all, how well does the American public know her? Have they really formed opinions regarding her? I don't see how they have much help in that, as she is pretty much in the background but for the occasional article or interview. Betty Ford and Hillary Clinton she ain't.

As Tom Lehrer said, some people don't love their fellow man, and I hate people like that. How do you feel about Laura Welch Bush? Kindly share.