Another Senate candidate has dropped out. This time, it’s state senator, Mike Taylor, a Montana Republican, because, in part, his Democratic opponents dug up an ancient television show in which he is seen
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.
This is a classic – destroying a candidate, who once ran a business selling hair-care products, by playing on the cheesiest anti-gay imagery. And now it’s being used by the Democrats. I say: get Racicot to replace him. But only if the electoral law allows it. And let’s see what the national gay groups say. If the Republicans had done this, there would be hell to pay.
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