I guess when you are down by thirty points in the polls you can pretty much say anything and it can’t possibly adversely effect you chances for winning the election.
Hillary Clinton’s Republican challenger is getting personal and it’s not pretty: He says the senator used to be ugly – and speculates she got “millions of dollars” in plastic surgery.
“You ever see a picture of her back then? Whew,” said John Spencer of Clinton’s younger days.
“I don’t know why Bill married her,” he said of the Clintons, who celebrated their 31st anniversary this month.
Noting Hillary Clinton looks much different now, he chalked it up to “millions of dollars” of “work” – plastic surgery.
“She looks good now,” he said.
Spencer’s bizarre comments came during a conversation with a reporter seated beside him and his wife, Kathy, on the 10:30 a.m. JetBlue flight Friday to Rochester, the site of the race’s first debate.
In the wide-ranging chat, he also declared that his GOP running mate, attorney general hopeful Jeanine Pirro, was going to lose.
There’s an old joke that Bill Clinton used to tell about being in the White House with Hillary. It seems Hillary had some other boyfriend or rival for her hand when she was going to Yale. And once the Clinton’s were elected, Bill said something like, “Just think what would have happened if you had chosen that other guy.” And Hillary said, “Bill, you don’t understand. If I had chosen him, he’d be in the White House today.” Of course, this was just a way for Bill to be self-deprecating while saying something nice about the smarts of his wife. The fact that there was a certain whiff of truth about it is what made it funny. Needless to say, supermodel looks are not the only consideration a wise man or woman makes when choosing a mate. Having said that, Hillary looks very nice in her medium age and I can’t see any reason to make that an issue on the campaign, other than either carelessness or meanness. It seems like everyday of this campaign some Republican is exposed as a jerk, or a misogynist, or a racist. John Spencer is just the latest specimen.
