Who Will Be The First Democrat Hack to Make This Claim?
If you have not heard already, the Republican candidate Mike Taylor, who was running against Max Baucus(D-MT), has withdrawn because of a negative ad campaign:
State Sen. Mike Taylor, Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, will withdraw from the race this afternoon, saying a Montana Democratic Party television ad has destroyed his campaign.
Taylor, who has scheduled a press conference in Helena for 2 p.m., said the ad, which he said insinuated that he was a gay hairdresser, had pushed his poll numbers through the floor.
Unconfirmed rumors have Taylor being replaced by former Montana Gov. Marc Racicot, who is now chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Although the ad was placed by the Democratic Party, Taylor blamed Sen. Max Baucus for it.
“We have zero left to fight with,” Alan Mikkelsen, Taylor’s campaign manager, said Thursday morning. “The ad has destroyed the campaign. We have no money left and we don’t want to stoop to the same level.”
Here is a description of the ad:
“What bothers me,” Taylor said, “is they are using a picture to assassinate my character. Why use that picture? Are they saying someone from my field in not qualified to be senator?”
What incensed Taylor was the film clip accompanying the ad. Taylor had a twice weekly segment in the early 1980s on a Denver television station. The clip shows Taylor applying lotions to the face of a man siting in the barber chair and discussing techniques. The ad shows Taylor, then slender, sporting a full beard. He is wearing a tight-fitting, three piece suit, with a big-collared open shirt ala John Travolta in “Saturday Night Fever.” Taylor’s top two or three shirt buttons are unbuttoned, exposing some bare chest and a number of gold chains.
“I cannot believe they would stoop to that level,” Taylor said.
State Sen. Ken Toole, D-Helena, and program director for the Montana Human Rights Network, said Thursday morning the ad “is an overt and obvious appeal to the homophobic (voter) that is playing to that stereotypic imagery.”
Toole, who has fought for homosexual rights for years in the Montana Legislature, said he had complained to the state Democratic Party.
Now, it is obvious what the ad was trying to insinuate. However, Democrats being hypocrites, liars, and extraordinary spinners, I want readers to look for the first Democrat who makes an argument like this:
“The ad was not playing to homophobic fears- it was just showing how inexperienced Taylor was and showing some of his past. What is clear is the obvious homophobic nature of the Republican party, who felt it was necessary to pull their candidate because someone misinterpreted that he might be homosexual.”
Beieve me, it will be uttered by some hack. Democrats aren’t bigots for running the ad- Republicans are for interpreting that a hairdresser must be gay. Trust me on this, and if you see someone argue this before I do, please e-mail me.