Huh? This was forwarded by a reader who commented, "I am sure there is a perfectly good explanation for this, because no one could possibly be this blatantly sexist on purpose." At AMERICAblog, we're not so sure.
The context: During a meet-and-greet event, Colorado Senate Republican primary candidate Ken Buck is asked by a woman in the audience, "Why should we vote for you?"
Buck's answer: "Because I do not wear high heels" (emphasis his). Note that he was talking to a woman at the time. Synchronicity at work.
The context of the context is provided by Ben Smith at Politico:
Buck was apparently responding to his rival Jane Norton's recent ad blaming him for independent attacks on her.And now the walk-back from this quasi-macaca moment. Explanation 1:
"You'd think he'd be man enough to do it himself," she says in the ad.
The connection isn't immediately clear in the video, in which he responded to a simple question from a woman in the audience.
"She has questioned my manhood. I think it's fair to respond," he explained. "I have cowboy boots. They have real bulls*** on them." (euphemistic typography theirs)Oops, that won't fly. Explanation 2:
Buck spokesman Owen Loftus e-mails, "Obviously, the comment was made in jest after Jane questioned Ken's 'manhood' in her new ad."Questioned his manhood? Click the link for the ad — that "manhood" seems rather easily questioned.
This is almost a cliché, isn't it? Republican candidates duking it out in high heels; and that name — Ken Buck. Really?
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