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Colorado Republican Joins List of Right-Wing Erotica Authors

July 6, 2013

I have good news and bad news for Colorado Republican state senate candidate Jaxine Bubis. The bad news is that her would-be constituents now know that she authored a series of erotic novels under the name Jaxine Daniels, including the not-so-classic Beantown Heat. The good news is that publishing soft core porn is no barrier to career success for right-wing hard liners. Bubis/Daniels can still become the top conservative mouthpiece on television, serve as the Vice President's chief of staff or even be the Second Lady of the United States. Just ask Bill O'Reilly, Scooter Libby and Lynne Cheney

As it turns out, poorly crafted, soft-core pornography seems to be quite the cottage industry among America's conservative elite. For example, thirty years before she penned the best-selling We the People: The Story of Our Constitution, Lynne Cheney authored Sisters, a touching tale of lesbian love in the Old West. One reviewer summed up the 1981 novel, noting "this story of a Washington wife who leaves her powerful husband to join a womyn's commune is charged with the kind of eroticism you just don't expect from the Second Lady of the United States of America."
No, you wouldn't expect that from Dick Cheney's wife--or his chief-of-staff. But you'd be wrong again.
As the New Yorker described at length back in 2005, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the right-hand man for staunchly conservative Vice President Dick Cheney, seemed quite comfortable writing about prostitution, deviant sexual acts and bestiality in his bizarre coming of age tale set in 1903 Japan. No doubt Libby's "man-on-deer" and "bear-on-girl" forbidden love scenes would make Rick Santorum and friends cringe. Thanks to President Bush's commutation of his prison sentence, Libby did not have to live The Apprentice in a cage of his own.
Then there's that hardest of the hard liners, Bill O'Reilly. Long before the Fox News blowhard wrote down Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln, he picked up the loofah for his 1998 novel, Those Who Trespass.

As for Colorado Springs author and gun-rights advocate Jaxine Bubis, news of her past prose did not leave all of her supporters "panting for more." As the Denver Post reported, the would-be replacement for Democratic state senator John Morse is facing some, well, blowback from local GOP activists like gun shop owner Paul Paradis:

"I was absolutely aghast," he said. "This is a person supported by the Christian right and conservative lawmakers. They just wanted to jump for the most conservative person in the room and that's stupid."
Paradis said there's no denying that Bubis worked hard on the recall, but he fears if she were the nominee, the recall would become the "butt of jokes nationally and fodder for late-night comedies."

Or, if the likes O'Reilly, Libby and Cheney are any indication, Jaxine Bubis could still become a major national conservative leader.


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