Reply #5: Good Ol' Clayton Williams [View All]

[secretshopper]

Affectionately known as Blatant Millions.

Too dumb for his own good.

He had a bunch of reporters at some starlight soiree to publicize his star-crossed campaign and the talk turned to the weather, which he likened to rape, somehow. It might have been after he mentioned visiting whorehouses in Mexico as a youth. Who knows.

From http://home.earthlink.net/~zkkatz/page69.html
Talking to reporters about the weather -- which most folks would consider a safe subject -- he joked that bad weather is like rape: "as long as it's inevitable, you might as well lie back and enjoy it."

So, he suggested that any woman who was raped should just sit back and enjoy it. Horrified reporters caught it and it quite possibly torpedoed the campaign, but there were so many who could tell which one did it.

Molly Ivins delivered the eulogy to his campaign in one of her columns and it was priceless. I can't find a link, but if I do I'll share the goodness.

Secret Shopper