Tampa, FL will host the Republican National Convention next month. Tampa’s Mayor Bob Buckhorn is making a jerk of himself this month. In a sleazy hit story in the New York Times, Buckhorn puts his ignorance and his misogyny on full display. The story uses Tampa’s reputation — strip club capital of America — to attack the Republicans who have not even held their convention there yet. It notes that one strip club has hired a Sarah Palin lookalike.
Enter Mayor Buckhorn, dignity nowhere in sight.
“I wonder whether the look-alike will be able to see Russia from the stage,” he asked, a question meant for the ex-governor’s doppelgänger.
Buckhorn’s joke isn’t funny. It’s creepy. He’s aping Tina Fey’s unfair impersonation of Palin to attack Palin herself, and helping draw attention to the strip club’s sleazy attack on the former governor and vice presidential nominee as well. If Palin were a Democrat, it’s a safe bet that Buckhorn would pull a Menino and rail against the strip club. But Palin is a Republican, so whatever means are used to attack her is just fine with him.
The Democrats should be required to report the strip club’s action as an in-kind contribution.
Of course, the real reason the club does this is that the lefties are tragically short of high-profile women that anyone would want to see strip.
You got that right; The image of Hilary….oh, God, whew….
We have strip clubs everywhere – why do you think we’ve already hosted 4 Super Bowls here, when we’ve only been an NFL city since 1975?
I have to wonder what would be the reaction if a strip club in Charlotte hired a Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton lookalike – using the “Buckhorn doctrine” it would be perfectly OK.
Yes, Buckhorn is an Democratic city mayor, and an imbecile, but I repeat myself.
Democrat’s routinely display their vile hypocrisy on a daily basis….it’s part of the reason they were trounced in 2010 and are looking at being trounced even worse this time around. Mayor Buckhorn, keep it up and one day you may run into someone who will teach you the manners you are obviously lacking; now that would be karma! If you’re mother is still alive, she is terribly ashamed of you (I hope). If she’s not….well, that would explain a lot.