BINGO!!!
He even admitted it when he defended his spread in Vogue. He wants to connect with those that aren't politically inclined.
That can only be read "I want people to vote for me, not because they understand my politics, but because I'm likeable."
No substance, just fluff, and the bobble heads have swallowed it.
There are bobble heads all over the political spectrum....they will support and condone a statement/policy for no other reason than it has the stamp of their preferred party all over it....regardless of quality, regardless of anything. Good idea, bad idea? Who cares? As long as it's Liberal/Conservative/NDP etc. That's never going to go away, sadly, I guess there are just always going to be a certain segment of the voting populace that is just superficial. Whatever.
This goes deeper than that though. This goes all the way through the party, right down to it's roots. They are clinging to the superficial flower and not clearing away the rotten undergrowth. When the Conservative Party was decimated in the early nineties, down to what? two seats in the HOC? They reinvented themselves, from the ground up. Rightly, wrongly, agree or disagree, they cleaned house. When the Liberals were faced with similar circumstances after the Sponsorship Scandal and the Cretien/Martin debacle, they did not clean house. Instead the focused on finding the most shiny object they could find.