For some reason every time I see that stout-faced woman's picture, I keep thinking of a pig wearing lipstick!! Is this bad? Am I losing it? Help me, doctor.

Actually, on reflection, I think there are certain attributes that make the connection appear.

One is a certain tendency to be porcine in her appetite for Federal money, and in her savage, almost grunting, defense of her own wallow and her swinish suspicion of anyone not vowing loyalty to her and her banners.

Another is the highly energized advance to the trough, driven solely by appetitie, and never by reflection.

Another is a certain pretension to being more "ordinary" than she actually is being. I can imagine Miss Piggy pirouetting and calling out "Moi is a hockey-maman and moi is also a moose-chasseur!" Trying to wedge that down-home profile into the highest offices in the land is pretty piggish.


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