Another Republican who may have a wide stance? In other words, I think
he doth protest too much.

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

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

By Aaron Blake
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.

Buck spokesman Owen Lofthus said Norton has made gender an issue and
noted that high heels have been invoked at several points in the
campaign, including at least once by Norton's campaign manager.

"The Norton campaign has routinely commented about her being a good
choice because she is a woman, and her choice of shoes," Lofthus said.

Norton spokeswoman Cinamon Watson suggested the video is Buck's Macaca
moment -- a single clip that ruins a candidate's campaign (the term
'Macaca moment' was coined after then-Sen. George Allen was filmed in
2006 using a racial slur to refer to a rival campaign's staffer).

"Ken is going to have to use all of his best lawyer-speak to explain
this really stupid statement," Watson said.

Recent polling has shown Buck overtaking Norton in the primary, but
she has raised more money and has the unofficial support of the GOP
establishment in the race.

The winner will face the Democratic nominee -- either appointed Sen.
Michael Bennet or former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff -- in
November.

By Aaron Blake  |  July 21, 2010; 6:55 PM ET

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Larry C. Lyons
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