In the ongoing Republican War On Women, New Hampshire state Rep. Steve Vaillancourt (R) wrote a mean-spirited and nasty blog post saying, “Let’s be honest. Does anyone not believe that Congressman Annie Kuster is as ugly as sin? And I hope I haven’t offended sin. If looks really matter and if this race is at all close, give a decided edge to Marilinda Garcia.”
Vaillancourt compared U.S. Rep. Ann McLane Kuster (D-N.H.) to a “drag queen” and suggested she will probably lose to the Republican challenger, Marilinda Garcia, who is “truly attractive.”
He tried to justify his knuckle-dragging buffoonery by claiming he recalls some new polling that shows “an attractive candidate can have as much as a seven to ten point advantage over a less attractive (or even an unattractive) candidate.”
Vaillancourt believes a female candidate should be attractive, but not “so drop dead gorgeous as to intimidate those watching.”
Garcia released the following statement: “State Rep. Vaillancourt’s recent comments about Rep. Ann Kuster are sexist and have absolutely no place in political discourse. Both Rep. Kuster and I have experienced this unfortunate reality of being a woman in politics. I hope that as time moves forward and more female candidates run for political office around the country, people will focus on the content of our ideas rather than what we wear and how we look.”
Vaillancourt, who is serving his sixth term in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, repeatedly shouted “Sieg Heil,” the Nazi salute, during a raucous floor discussion in 2012. He publicly apologized, blah, blah blah….
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