October 27, 2006
From the GOP Library
With passages from Virginia U.S. Senate candidate Jim Webb's (D) novels making news
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2006/10/27/webbs_novels_questioned.html, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee just sent out the following talking points:
In 1981, Vice President Dick Cheney’s wife Lynne wrote a book called Sisters, which featured a lesbian love affair, brothels and attempted rapes. In 1988, Lynne Cheney wrote about a Republican vice president who dies of a heart attack while having sex with his mistress.
Former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich co-wrote a thriller called 1945, featuring such titillations as biting foreplay, "pouting sex kitten," "exotic mistress" and "after-bout inhalation." At one point, the mistress of the president's chief of staff sits "athwart" her lover's chest and hisses that he must tell her a secret "or I will make you do terrible things."
In 1996, former Cheney Chief of Staff I. Lewis Libby wrote The Apprentice, a novel that includes references to bestiality, pedophilia and rape.
In 1999, former GOP Governor William Weld said of his book, Big Ugly, "I think of the theme of this book is sex and money meets the great outdoors." Weld’s thriller included sex, bribery and murder.
This week, it was discovered that a Republican statewide candidate in Texas, Susan Combs, wrote a romance novel "full of steamy sex scenes." The book’s heroine is "a freckle-faced brunette" who is drawn to "the gray-eyed bodyguard" and his "powerful, strong arms," and desires him to "fill the aching void at her center," where a "deep heaviness throbbed in her belly."
If nothing else, this should provide some material for the cable television talks shows this weekend.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2006/10/27/from_the_gop_library.html