Senate Candidate Assumes Women Must Be ‘Talking About Shoes’

[highplainsdem]

Source: ThinkProgress

Tom Smith must not be banking on women’s votes to win his Senate bid. The Pennsylvania Republican got in hot water last week when he suggested that having a baby out of wedlock is a rough equivalent to to giving birth to a rapist’s child.

Then last week, on the campaign trail, Smith suggested that the only thing two women might have to talk about is shoe shopping. Approaching two women at a campaign stop, Smith called them “girls,” then added:

SMITH: What are we talking about here, two girls together talking?

WOMAN: We’re talking about the power of petite women.

SMITH: My guess would’ve been you were talking about shoes.

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Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/08/31/781541/senate-candidate-assumes-women-must-be-talking-about-shoes/

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Video at the link.

[JBoy]

1. Holy shit, what a dumbass.

Trying to be folksy and friendly, he comes off like a dinosaur.

[bemildred]

2. Another tone deaf Pubbie politician.

Where do they still make them like this?

[beac]

3. Best comment at the link so far:

"This guy doesn't think that there is a Republican war on women. He thinks the women have already been defeated."

Smith certainly is giving his all to win the apparently coveted "Todd Akin II" title.

[JudyM]

4. Wishing the MSM would start really bullhorning the pattern of these R idiots' statements... nt

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Casey will be a shoe-in

thanks to the EPIC FAIL of this guy.

I started seeing Casey ads this week so good timing!

[Quantess]

6. Foot-in-mouth.

What an idiot.