In the summer of 1992 at the Democratic National Convention, Texas governor Ann Richards said "Well, you can put lipstick on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig." This was in reference to a plan by president George H.W. Bush allegedly to use US warships to protect oil tankers in the Middle East. Richards thought the program was wasteful spending. - wikipedia
this is the narcissist and haughty duchess peg, a distant (very distant, waaaaay distant) cousin of sushi and sashi, who is so ambitious she blindsided a toopid duke and got him to marry her.