Beyond Sex With an Elephant, Meghan, What Are You Trying to Tell Me?

And, if you weren't wondering before what was going on inside the Republican big tent! I mean, that serpent-like trunk is about as blatant as you can get. (And, regards the back cover: What, no cigarette??)

Beyond the appeal to sex (yet again), however -- as Meghan exploits her last name and her Campaign '08 social media savvy as one more hawker with a front row set under the political-infotainment "famous-for-being-famous" big top -- maybe John's offspring is actually revealing something else, which is (hold your ears, value voters!) a Grand Old Party's elephantine moral exposure.

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