Posted on 06/19/2014 12:07:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer is many things, but circumspect is apparently not one of them.
Schweitzer, a Democrat who's said he's mulling a presidential bid in 2016, offered a colorful appraisal of Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., the soon-to-be former House majority leader who was defeated in a primary election last week.
"Don't hold this against me, but I'm going to blurt it out. How do I say this...men in the South, they are a little effeminate," Schweitzer told National Journal's Marin Cogan in an interview the night of the election. "They just have effeminate mannerisms. If you were just a regular person, you turned on the TV, and you saw Eric Cantor talking, I would say -- and I'm fine with gay people, that's all right -- but my gaydar is 60-70 percent. But he's not, I think, so I don't know. Again, I couldn't care less. I'm accepting."
Schweitzer also weighed in on the controversy over the National Security Agency's surveillance programs. He panned Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., as a hypocrite for criticizing the programs after they became public despite her already-deep knowledge of them.
"She was the woman who was standing under the streetlight with her dress pulled all the way up over her knees, and now she says, 'I'm a nun,' when it comes to this spying," he said.
He quickly added, "I mean, maybe that's the wrong metaphor--but she was all in!"
Play VIDEO Could a red state Democrat run for president in 2016? Schweitzer would face very steep odds to claim the Democratic nomination in 2016 if former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also launches a bid.
Since he left the governor's office last year, though, he's carved out a unique space for himself as an often-irreverent, straight-talking alternative to the Clinton juggernaut.
Last December, discussing ongoing tensions in the Middle East, Schweitzer subtly dinged Clinton for supporting the 2003 invasion of Iraq during a speech in Iowa.
"Now maybe we're going to make the right decision, or maybe we're just going to go to war again," he said. "And the reason why I'm in Iowa, in part, is I'm asking you to pick the leaders who are not going to make those mistakes."
In a recent interview in Time Magazine, Schweitzer also looked suspiciously at Clinton's ties to the financial industry. "You can't be the candidate that shakes down more money on Wall Street than anybody since, I don't know, Woodrow Wilson, and be the populist," he said.
He advised Democrats to pick their nominee in 2016 carefully, asking whether they want leaders who will "roll over and get scratched on the belly by corporations like a fat dog."
And despite Clinton's growing support within the party, he insisted he could win if he decides to run.
"If you wanted to make a big machine that matches the machine that is likely to be built around Hillary then you would have to have started eight years ago," he explained. "But if the outcome is always known with a superior, slow moving army, then we would still be part of England and we would still have a king. And Hillary would be president, or whatever you have under a king, but certainly it would not have been Obama."
What’s this guy ding with ‘Gaydar’ and where did he get it?................and what else does he use it for?.............inquiring minds want to know...................
Whom gods destroy, they first make mad ...
Wow, Brian. You’re actually a fag hater.
Thnx for that announcement. Can’t bode well for you.
As to Cantor, he is a gentleman.
Had boo chit iideasand it was time to move on.
What a moron..typical Democrat moron..can’t even make cognitive sense
Having been born in NY, I assure you we look as fabulous in a set of 6 in. heels as any man below the MD line, though the southern boys tend to wear them more often so they beat us with experience alone.
Tho thake That you bruthe! ;)
Okay...so he’s a porky sniveling poofter, then. Very good.
The Robertsons - Phil, Willie, Jase, and Si... all southern men... Schweitzer’s saying these guys are effeminate? Gimme a break.
men in the South, they are a little effeminate,
I always thought that of Yankees...
Well, they are on TV, which is a bad sign.
Southern men don’t swish they glide!/s
LOL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9db4o8c5X0I
Funny.
People have had to sell major league basketball teams for saying less.
Libs will twist everything. Either Southern men are big hairy gun toting meanies or they're effeniate. Which is it? As for Cantor, I thought he was a gay dem when I first heard him speak.
Went back and read the article.
He’s actually funny and his metaphors are right on.
He seems like a metrosexual Jewish guy.
I think he fell too much in love with DC.
It’s a corrosive atmosphere.
Even a lot of good folks go bad there.
So when did you first experience these feelings of deep personal insecurity?
How long have you had this attraction to stronger men? Not that there is anything wrong with that. Wink. Wink.
Tell me about your repressed anger toward these men whom you feel inferior to.
Tell me about your Dad and Mom. What were your relationships with each of them like?
We have a guy in our office from Montana. Not what I call a man’s man either.
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