Senator Mark Kirk: Lindsey Graham Is A ‘Bro With No Ho’
Illinois Senator Mark Kirk had a colorful way to describe his fellow Senator:
WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is a “bro with no ho,” according to his colleague, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.)
The assessment of Graham’s love life was made during a Senate Appropriations Committee markup on Thursday and caught on a live microphone.
“I’ve been joking with Lindsey,” Kirk can be heard saying. “Did you see that? He’s going to have a rotating first lady. He’s a bro with no ho.”
Graham’s bachelorhood has been much-discussed since the launch of his presidential campaign. The senator is single with no children, which has raised questions about whether voters might find him unrelatable. Graham has laughed it off and even joked recently that he’ll have more than one first lady once he gets to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
“I feel real comfortable with who I am and the life I’ve lived,” Graham recently told The Huffington Post. “The last time I checked, I didn’t see a sign on the White House that said ‘single people need not apply.'”
But while he may lack a “ho,” it’s unclear whether Graham would describe himself as a “bro.”
Moreover, Kirk’s comment raises a number of questions: Are congressional bros different from everyday bros? Do they pop the collar on their pinstripe suits as they stroll through Dirksen in boat shoes? Do they hit the Senate gym each morning and play beer pong at Chuck Schumer’s apartment at night? Do they bring red plastic cups onto the Senate floor to sip on vodka-Red Bulls while they wait on roll call votes?
No word on whether Senator Kirk believes Senator Graham has hos in every area code.
Right. Sure you will, Lindsay. Sure you will.
For God’s sake, you’re a hundred years old, Senator, come out of the closet already.
He’s got 99 problems…
Yikes, I just checked and Graham is not 100 years old, he’s just 59. He’s a year younger than me. Wow. And I thought I looked old.
Where is the consideration for the heterosexual male who chooses to live as a bachelor?
Bachelor rights, y’all! It’s quite possible that the good Senator is simply a man who likes his own company best of all-or maybe he is just very, very, very choosy about women.
He shouldn’t be penalized for this. The Presidency is for bachelors too, like the great James Buchanan who-oh, never mind!
Maybe he is still single because he cannot find a partner who is okay with him hiding under the bed all the time because he seems to be afraid of his own shadow?
And Mark Kirk’s joke is just stupid locker room nonsense. But making it on a live microphone? Do Republicans genuinely understand that slightly more than half of the voting age population is female?
On some level, I think we need space for stupid locker room nonsense. I just get tired of these kind of articles.
As for Graham, I think a zone of privacy is warranted for our politicians as long as they respect other people’s zones.
@stonetools: Maybe he can take comfort in Grover Cleveland. He entered office as a bachelor, but that was after he was found to have fathered a child out of wedlock and before he went on to marry a 21-year-old woman.
@Kylopod: Which, it should be noted in fairness, made her practically a spinster at the time.
James Buchanan – maybe, maybe not. He was engaged to a woman; it ended tragically. He was very close to a male friend. He was said to be effeminate. Who knows?
@Gromitt Gunn: As a random aside, it really bothers me that the default Wikipedia search for 99 Problems leads to Jay Z’s borrowing, and not to Ice-T’s original from “Home Invasion.”
@Pete S: I really don’t think they do. Either that, or he assumes that because his wife humors him with good-natured chuckles, then he must be hilarious.
@Pete S:
best I can tell, no.
I live in an old money neighborhood (on the edge, by the railroad tracks). If I talk to guys around the neighborhood about how elections will turn out and compare it to reported vote tallies for my precinct, I’m forced to conclude a lot of wives are lying to their husbands about how they vote.
Vodka and Red Bull? Meh…. What they need to be drinking is Jaegerbombs!
The far right thinks he’s a Communist homosexual. And probably a secret Muslim.
I have no idea if he’s gay or straight, but I’m deeply appreciative of the fact that I haven’t yet had to pick up the newspaper and read about him starring in some sordid scandal involving a supporting cast of underaged pages or interns.
As the lady said, I don’t care what people do as long as they don’t do it in the street and frighten the horses.
@CSK: I’ve never heard anyone on the right question his sexuality. I’ve read a lot of criticism from the right against him, and up until a couple of days ago, I didn’t know he was a bachelor.
Interesting:
Something tells me the Senator from Illinois slept on the couch last night.
@M. Bouffant:
http://www.pjstar.com/article/20150410/NEWS/150419901/1994/NEWS/?Start=4
@Pinky:
Take a visit to one of the sites where the fringe gathers. They refer to him as “Miss,” amongst other things.
@CSK: So, you’re telling me that, somewhere on the internet, a group of people is getting out of hand? Noted.