Rock Bottom: Cory Booker's opponent resorts to homophobia

[marmar]

New Jersey GOP Senate candidate Steve Lonegan said on Tuesday he thinks it's "weird" that his opponent, Newark Mayor Cory Booker (D), won't put to rest rumors about his sexual orientation.

"It's kind of weird. As a guy, I personally like being a guy. I don't know if you saw the stories last year. They've been out for quite a bit about how he likes to go out at three o'clock in the morning for a manicure and a pedicure," Lonegan, the conservative former mayor of Bogota, N.J., told Newsmax.

Lonegan's comments imply that someone who is gay is not "a guy."

In a Washington Post profile published on Tuesday, Booker said that he is perfectly comfortable if people are unsure about his sexual orientation and that he wants to keep his romantic life private. ..................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/28/steve-lonegan-cory-booker_n_3829053.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000037

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Lonegan is really desperate here

No one in NJ who is not an asshole cares . . . and truth be told - love us or hate us - table flippers or not . . .


The majority of us are not assholes and could care less what anyone's orientation is. So he's only pandering to assholes on this.

[dawg]

2. He's serving his purpose.

Which is to make everyone in NJ feel better about the Wall Street friendly centrist who is their only other choice.

[LeftinOH]

3. "As a guy, I personally like being a guy". He even fails at homophobia. n/t

[freshwest]

4. You noticed that, too. Of course, it's a plot to turn us all gay. Alex Jones says so!

[Posteritatis]

5. Isn't that more rock average for the political discourse these days? (nt)

[wordpix]

6. lol, good luck running a campaign based on THAT in NJ

only the rightest of the RWnuttiest will care

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. desperation

[William769]

8. Kick & recommended.

[TexasBushwhacker]

9. Lonegan doesn't realize most people couldn't care less

about Booker's sexuality. More than anything Booker seems to be one of those people who seems married to his work.