LEO’s Cary Stemle does a bang-up job imparting the ways of Stan Lee to his readers this week. From his obsession with hair to his faux talking point that Jack Conway is inexperienced, it’s all there. In quite possibly the funniest look at the race for Attorney General yet.
Lee, who seems to have a mild obsession with bodily traits, hair in particular, played on the rumors that Conway was/is gay, which appear to have been birthed when Conway lost a narrow race to then-U.S. Rep. Anne Northup in 2002. (The irony is made all the richer, of course, because the whispering campaign has Mitch McConnell’s imprint all over it, even while he himself is subject to rampant such rumors about his sexual persuasion.)
“I know how excited the media is about this race,” Lee intoned, “the city slicker vs. the country boy, the ultra lib-e-ral vs. the traditional conservative, the big-city trial lawyer vs. the simple country lawyer. “And listen, I know the differences don’t stop there — I’ve hearrrrd what many of you ladies have been saying — and some of you guyyys: Why, he is so young. He’s so handsome, that — those eyes. That smile, that hair …”
3 responses so far ↓
1 Jamie // Oct 25, 2007 at 2:53 pm
If someone votes for a candidate due to their physical appearance, their right to vote should be stripped away immediately!!
2 Yellow Dog // Oct 25, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Are you kidding? If that were the rule, Nixon would have been president in 1962 and today we’d still be trying to recover from nuclear holocaust.
MOST people vote based on physical appearance.
3 mirror mirror // Oct 25, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Appearance does have an impact on first, uninformed impressions, personally, but I believe most informed voters find that pretty appeal fades for candidates just like it does for the high school hunk and stunning beauty once his and her true character and motives become clear. Pretty is as pretty does. I don’t think Lee could get the support of any fair-minded non-extremist voter seeking an AG with the character and tolerance to serve and protect equally Kentucky gays and straights and Muslims, atheists and Christians if he was George Clooney’s identical twin. It’s just coincidence that the most capable and ethical of the AG candidates is not a bit hard on the eyes. Go Conway!
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