Clinton's opponent : "I won't call her a lesbian or anything"

John Spencer seems to be making a big jackass of himself in the New York senate race against Hillary Rodham Clinton. First he allegedly bags on her looks and now he's allegedly making lesbian jokes.
He sounds, like a moron - allegedly at least.

Clinton's Republican opponent for the U.S. Senate, in an interview with a local Westchester County, N.Y., newspaper, suggested the New York senator and Democratic star is a lesbian. A columnist for the paper, The Journal News, said that Spencer made the insinuation last week in a telephone interview in response to a question about whether he would attempt to portray Clinton as a liberal in two recent debates. "He said words to the effect of, 'Well, you know me, words slip out, but I won't call her a lesbian or anything,'" Phil Reisman, the columnist, told the Times. "He was definitely joking—he laughed after he said it."

Spencer's camp did not deny the remark but offered a lukewarm apology. "As John Spencer said this afternoon, if he offended anyone, he apologizes," Rob Ryan, Spencer's spokesman, said.

Spencer, the former Yonkers mayor, has denied making the comments, which were published by the New York Daily News under the headline "Getting Ugly." "You ever see a picture of her back then? Whew," Spencer was quoted by a Daily News reporter who happened to sit next to Spencer and his wife Friday during a flight from New York to Rochester for a candidates' debate. "I don't know why Bill married her."

Clinton on Tuesday said : "It's unfortunate that when you don't have anything positive to say about the issues that we can get off in some pretty swampy territory."

Outraged women are jumping to Clinton's defense:
"John Spencer's comments about Senator Clinton are an embarrassment to New Yorkers of every party," said Geraldine Ferraro, the party's unsuccessful 1984 candidate for vice president. "Does anyone think if John Spencer were running against a man he would be making comments about his appearance? I think New Yorkers know the answer."