NY-SEN: Spencer Suggests Hillary Was Ugly Before She Got "Millions" In "Work" Done
This is a novel campaign tactic for a man to use against a woman: Call your opponent ugly. But that's exactly what GOP Senate candidate John Spencer has done to opponent Hillary Clinton, today's Daily News reports. The paper has an interview with Spencer in which he says Hillary was ugly before she got “millions of dollars” of “work” done. Speaking of Clinton, Spencer said, “You ever see a picture of her back then? Whew,” and “I don’t know why Bill married her.” Spencer added: “She look good now.” Bizarrely, he concluded: “I happen to like Hillary Clinton.” Interesting way of showing it.
Update: Spencer is now denying that he ever made any comments regarding Clinton’s looks. Spencer told the Associated Press, “It's a fabrication. I would never call Hillary Clinton ugly...That's outrageous. I didn't do it." The Daily News reporter who broke the story, Ben Smith, says Spencer did make the comments, and although the conversation was not recorded, he did take notes.
Perhaps Spencer's going after the plastic surgeon vote? Or their donations? Certainly this comment seems like it would insult and alienate women -- especially older women who know full well that they don't need to get work done to look good as they age. And come to think of it, I'm insulted too; is beauty the only thing guys ought to think about? My girlfriend isn't a supermodel, but that hasn't made the past two years bad somehow.
October 23, 2006 12:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
At least the Daily News labelled him "wacky" right there in the headline!
October 23, 2006 12:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Spencer is representative of a certain group of voters. They are mosly male, listen to talk radio, like action movies, talk about family values but like porn and commit adultery, want US to nuke countries they don't like, they are into junk food, think George Will is an intellectual. And they hate Hillary, not for who she is but what they think she represents; a threat to their diminishing power. Luckily for Hillary they are a minority.
October 23, 2006 1:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
That should go over big with every woman in the state over 30. And I wonder when we'll see every Republican spokesperson and Meet the Press guest asked whether he or she believes Hillary had had plastic surgery or whether he repudiates this comment, which was made, after all, by the nominee of the New York State Republican Party for the United States Senate, and not Some Guy On A Blog.
I guess Spencer will spend the rest of the campaign apologizing for this lunacy as he mounts the electoral guillotine, but it could be worse. At least he doesn't have to run commercials saying it's true he cheated on his wife, but he didn't beat up his mistress. That's Sherwood in Pennsylvania, endorsed and visited by President Bush during Character Counts Week.
October 23, 2006 2:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
I guess he thinks that this is going to get him elected. I am willing to bet that there are quite a few Senator's wives out there that have spent quite a bit of money also to make themselves look good and are probably a little upset over it. But I doubt if they will speak up and say anything.
October 24, 2006 12:57 PM | Reply | Permalink