Hillary’s Lesbian Rumors

Jim Miller writes:

Would it make a difference, politically, if it were widely believed?  Probably.  But not necessarily.  When Linda Chavez tried to use Barbara Mikulski’s affair with an Australian lesbian against her in the 1986 senate election, she had little success.  (The Australian woman, whose name I forget, was on Mikulski’s staff, and disrupted it seriously, so I think the issue was legitimate.)  On the other hand, news organizations essentially refused to cover the story, so it is hard to know how many Maryland voters knew about it.

(Here much more gossip on the story, if you are curious.  Eric Scheie says, if true, the rumor would make him more likely to vote for Hillary, and then discusses the Huma’s odd job title, "body person".  To me, she sounds like servant, and reminds me of John Kerry’s Marvin.   James Lewis says the rumor is Hillary disinformation, designed to distract us from other, real Clinton scandals.  That’s a bit too conspiratorial for my tastes, though I won’t say it is impossible.)