By Chris Cosci

The next presidential election is less than a year away, and it's time we start addressing some serious issues. For starters, there's the issue of voter turnout, which has been extremely low for the past few elections. There's a lot of information to absorb, and our current crop of political analysts aren't helping to attract many voters. What we need is a new face for political information - a face that will make people stand up and take notice of what's going on in our nation's government. We need to be informed by hot women.

This is the basic idea behind Babes Against Bush, a Web site of "socially conscious, stunningly attractive" women who make their voices heard by stating their political views while taking photographs in seductive poses. The site is designed to attract otherwise apathetic voters and persuade them to vote using the power of female breasts.

As the name of this site suggests, these women are firmly against the reelection of George W. Bush. They don't necessarily support any particular opposing candidate, they just want Bush out of office. Not ones to be subtle, these self-described babes call Bush hideous, a bum, and, with an impressive lack of restraint, an "election-hijacking, economy-wrecking, war-mongering chimp."

But nasty words aren't enough to lure people to their site. That's where the pictures come in. While the site does contain a few mild photos, the major pitch is for the Regime Change Countdown Calendar, which you can buy for just $11.00. Each month of the calendar contains facts and figures about the Bush administration, and there's a day-by-day countdown to inauguration day in January 2005. Oh, and there's also a picture of a naked or almost-naked woman for every month.

The site asks, "what could be more All-American than thirteen beautiful young women exercising their First Amendment right to thumb their nose at our bozo president?" I don't know - maybe a bunch of people eating apple pie while watching baseball?

The site also mentions the inevitability of hot babes standing up against our country's leader. It states, "clearly, these two opposing forces were bound to collide." Yes, the great people of our nation have been sitting on the edge of their seats for years waiting for this moment to come.

Their message seems pretty clear, but there's nothing like beating a dead horse, then beating it some more, then topping it off with a brief period of additional beating. So, the babes created a list of "99 Reasons Why Bush Sucks." The list covers all of the important factors that make up the demanding role of Commander-in-Chief. For example, one reason states that Bush "thought milk costs $5 a gallon." Not only does this illustrate how incapable he is at running a country, but it proves he would be a pretty poor contestant on "The Price is Right."

Another reason for their anti-Bush campaign is that he "flew to Iraq to eat turkey on Thanksgiving." That selfish jerk. He could have at least brought a turducken. Then again, maybe his bad supermarket pricing knowledge led him to believe that the turkey he brought over cost $15,000.

The babes had further Thanksgiving-related reasons to evict Bush. After all, when you're trying to come up with 99 reasons, you have to be creative. That must be why reason #74 states that Bush "forced soldiers to eat turkey 'dinner' at 7:00 am local time," and reason #99 states that Bush "forced troops in Baghdad to eat Thanksgiving 'dinner' at 6:00 am local time." Does that mean he made them eat two Thanksgiving dinners, an hour apart? No wonder we have an obesity problem in this country.

Regardless of their viewpoint, the primary focus of the site is to get people interested in politics again - mainly horny guys. But if their campaign is a success, I'm sure we will see dozens of copycat campaigns pop up. There will be "Beefcakes for Bush," "Hotties for Howard Dean," and "Ladies against Lieberman." The new face of politics has arrived, and it's got the body to go with it.