In the lastest brilliant installment of how the GOP can connect with women, we have New Hampshire State Rep. Steve Vaillancourt. He wrote a blog post predicting the outcome of the race in the state's 2nd Congressional District on one factor: incumbent Democratic Rep. Ann McLane Kuster's looks. (Click on this blog link as fast as you can if you want to see it first hand – I don’t think it’s going to stay around very long).
The post is so extreme that it’s hard to take seriously. It’s filled with brilliant observations, such as:
Does anyone not believe that Congressman Annie Kuster is as ugly as sin? And I hope I haven't offended sin.
Mercilessly, he goes on: “How ugly is Annie Kuster?” He then answers by noting a “drag queen bar” in Montreal that he passes often (really? Why?), and renders his judgment: “the drag queens are more atrractive [sic] than Annie Kuster....not that there's anything wrong with that.”
As for Kuster’s tea-party and Ted Cruz backed opponent?
Republican Marilinda Garcia is one of the mot [sic] attractive women on the political scene anywhere, not so attractive as to be intimindating [sic], but truly attractive.
Time magazine asked: “You’d think the state with the first-in-history all female delegation—both senators, both House members and the governor—would be more enlightened, or at least more sensitive, when it comes to female candidates.”
I hope that Vaillancourt will take to heart what his heart-throb candidate Garcia said in response:
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,