Maybe Cindy should toss her cookies

Perhaps it's the makeup, or hairstyle, or demeanor, but Cindy McCain reminds me of one of the Stepford Wives. She's a beautiful woman, but scary as hell!

She also has a recipe problem. While the MSM seems to be putting this story (rightly?) on the back burner, the bloggers and internet news sites have had great fun with it.

You'll recall how a couple of months ago, Cindy (or the McCain Campaign) got caught copying recipes from the Food Network's site and passing them off as her own. That resulted in a small blip of public interest but the story died quickly. An unpaid intern was fired.

It's happened again, however. According to the Huffington Post, "The July 2008 issue of Family Circle featured an article in which each (it went to press before Hillary conceded) of the presidential candidates' significant others submitted a cookie recipe." The McCain campaign offered "Cindy McCain's Oatmeal-Butterscotch Cookies."

A sharp-eyed reader happened to notice something amiss with Cindy's recipe and sure enough, it appears to have been copied (with a few minor changes) from Hersheys.com. Cindy attributed "her cookie recipe to 'a good friend.'"

Milton S. Hershey maybe?

Think for a moment how this minor episode would be blown out of all proportion by the media pundits - especially those non-journalists at Fox News - if Cindy McCain was a Democrat!

But you have to wonder how something like this could happen twice? What's going on at the McCain campaign? Will another unpaid intern take the fall? Why would they risk a possible scandal over a cookie recipe?

Back to Cindy's appearance. Because she looks a bit like a Stepford Wife, this cookie-baking promotion may be nothing more than a rather silly attempt to alter her appearance so that the hoi polloi will realize she's just as comfortable in a kitchen as a boardroom. Maybe they think if people can picture her baking cookies, they'll conclude she's not so strange after all.

Or maybe the McCains should go back to selling beer....