(Republican) Male Senate candidate: Vote for me 'because I do not wear high heels'

[UrbScotty]

Source: Washington Post

A new video shows Ken Buck, the leading Republican candidate in a Colorado Senate race, repeatedly using the word "bull----" and saying that voters should choose him over his female primary opponent "because I do not wear high heels."

Buck, the Weld County district attorney, made the remarks at a recent forum, in response to an audience question. Former lieutenant governor Jane Norton has been running a campaign ad decrying third-party spending on behalf of Buck's campaign and urging Buck to "be man enough" to run the ads himself.

"She has questioned my manhood; I think it's fair to respond," Buck continues in the video. "I have cowboy boots on. They have real bull--- on 'em. That's Weld County bull---, not Washington D.C. bull---."

The brief YouTube clip is edited to about a minute and a half and was not posted by Buck's campaign.

Read more: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/07/male-senate-candidate-vote-for.html?hpid=topnews

[Hawkeye-X]

1. I can tell you it's a nasty primary fight with the Colorado GOP.

Andrew Romanoff should be able to take on either one of them and defeat them easily.

And laughing about it.

Local rag: http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/2010/07/21/high-heels-comment-spotlights-gender-on-gop-senate-primary/12159/

[DavidDvorkin]

3. First he has to win the Democratic primary

I haven't seen any polls on that. Do you know what it looks like?

[sakabatou]

2. Ah, what an asshole.

[alp227]

4. i was about to say that too.

Profanity and misogyny? The Parents Television Council and moral values advocates certainly ain't supporting this guy, right?

[mitchum]

5. I think the bullshit is in, not on, the boots

[From The Ashes]

6. if he's anything like other Republicans...

he should amend that to read '...at least in public.'

[undeterred]

7. I'll bet most women in Congress don't wear them either.

BTW I stepped in shit at the dog park but it didn't enhance my gender identity. :shrug:

[alfredo]

8. Sensible pumps for him.

[Moonwalk]

9. Does this mean that other Republican men DO wear high heels?

I mean, that was my first impression. That he was comparing himself to other male Republicans.....and claiming that he was somehow unique.

[tanyev]

10. Real cowboy boots had pretty high heels, pardner.

[tabasco]

11. Vitter's challenger might use this strategy too.

"I do not wear diapers!"

[Posteritatis]

12. Whole lot of, ah, honesty coming from the Republican candidates lately. (nt)

[smirkymonkey]

13. ".....well, ok, only when I frequent drag clubs which is about 3x per

week, but never, ever at any other time do I wear high heels."

[struggle4progress]

14. Qualifications for GOP candidates seem to be in decline

"Yall otter vote for me cuz I don't wear no high heels" is perhaps the saddest argument I've ever heard