People who keep mentioning her looks are flat out sexists.
That's not true at all.
Good-looking, physically fit people have tremendous advantages over folks who aren't in all walks of life. It's a factor.
Michelle Bachmann is a year older than me (61) and she was, for a minute, the GOP frontronner in 2012. She's also extremely attractive for her age, despite being a blithering idiot. Don't think for a minute that physical appearance isn't relative. Yes, William Howard Taft was over 300 lbs, but he also wasn't President on TV.