And it isn't like they believe in either morality of the censorship of sexually explicit material -- so how they can object to a clearly non-obscene book is beyond me, other than hypocrisy.

The book is back in Susan Combs' life like an old boyfriend who is best forgotten but keeps popping up at the most inconvenient times.

A Perfect Match is a steamy romance novel published in 1990 by Combs, who was in between jobs when she wrote it but is now the state's agriculture commissioner and the Republican nominee for state comptroller.

It tells the story of Emily Brown, a "cryptanalyst" for the National Security Agency, who "spent her days decoding secret messages with the zeal that most people applied to solving crossword puzzles," the book jacket says. Then she meets her match in superspy Ross Harding.

"Their mouths had fused hotly, desperately, a feverish urgency in his touch," reads one passage, referring to the pair's passion for each other.

Now those words, and others, are being used against Combs by her Democratic opponent, Fred Head, who has labeled the torrid tale pornography.

"Would you vote for a candidate who wrote a trashy, pornographic romance novel that glorifies premarital sex and seeks to arouse sexual interest as your State Comptroller of Public Accounts?" Head asks in a campaign flier.

Oh, puh-LEEEEEEEEZ! Have you no dignity Mr. Head? Don't you have any qualifications to run on, rather than objections to the current incumbent's literary skills? Especially since your a member of a party whose former president performed significantly more pornographich acts in the Oral Orifice Oval Office? And on a related note, how can you and your party possibly expect us to vote for anyone with such an indecent name as "Head", which clearly seeks to arouse sexual interest?

Maybe we in the GOP should just let them have CD-22 -- it might be the only way the Loser-Crats can win an office currently held by a Republican in the state of Texas. Nah!

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1 I think the quality of romance writing is as relevant as most of the nonsense that gets raised as campaign issues . . .

(While I agree with you that this is stupid, it is also the sort of thing that could swing the votes of stupid people, and that's a significant constituency.)

Posted by: Dan at Tue Aug 1 01:25:22 2006 (aSKj6)

2 "how can you and your party possibly expect us to vote for anyone with such an indecent name as "Head", which clearly seeks to arouse sexual interest?"

snicker, snicker.

Is that the worst of the book? Seriously, I've not read the book, and it probably wouldn't interest me, but that's hardly damning. It's just plain silly, in fact. This from the party that sees nothing wrong in condom distribution, birth control or abortion for minors all of which tend to encourage and glorify "premarital sex and seeks to arouse sexual interest". Can you say "hypocrisy"?

Posted by: Anna Venger at Tue Aug 1 03:40:19 2006 (ZXStJ)

3 I think it takes great courage to write, and even get published genre of this nature.

I think it takes even more insight, and creativity to think of new ways to describe and define by either name or action, acts of romance.

If Susan did this during the "lean" years for her. At least she was doing something creative and not destructive.

I've met her on many occasions, and find her reasoning, and politics to be very refreshing. We need people like her in these positions that know how to think and create solutions outside the box of conventional wisdom and be effective at the same time, and be able to express themselves in a way that doesn't make me go to sleep!

I doubt we'll see anything mentioned in any reports from her office concerning the plight of "Lance" and "Holly Goodbody" in regards to the current task at hand in her professional life. But its good to know she's not afraid to address things like this in her past either.

Good for her! I'm glad the dunderheads in the liberal party have to stoop so low to think this revelation is going to do them any good in November.

I say keep it coming Dems! At least your consistent, pathetic but consistent.

Posted by: boyo at Tue Aug 1 08:59:30 2006 (iL9qH)

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