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Today’s ultra-scary BLONDIE comic strip
Maine Republicans make WORLD OF WARCRAFT a political scandal
The Republican Party has for decades struggled with a public image – an inaccurate and even slanderous one, I will note – that it is an organization bent against the rights of minorities, women, pretty much anyone not Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
And then the Maine Republican Party messes it all up by coming out as anti-Orc Assassins.
Maine state Senate candidate Colleen Lachowicz is being accused by Maine Republicans in an official campaign release as leading a “bizarre double life” as Santiaga: a cutthroat with green skin, mohawk and fangs.
The thing is, “Santiaga” is Lachowicz’s avatar in the crazy popular online game World of Warcraft.
Here is the mailing that the Maine GOP has sent out across the state:
So now attacking a candidate’s hobbies is considered an acceptable political tactic? This is a whole new low, one that the Republican Party should not only be ashamed of but ...
Tired of negative political ads? So am I (and I’m gonna do something about it…)
Four years ago I made a solemn vow to myself, and I have kept to it. Not only that but my conscience has rested much better because of it…
I pledged to not vote for any candidate for public office who runs even a single negative campaign ad against an opponent.
I’m telling y’all right now that the ballot I cast in 2008 had a lot of wide open empty spaces. But the candidates that I didn’t vote for, it can’t be said that they didn’t earn that. Either because I believed they were not suitable for office on their own merits, or because they violated the terms of my vow.
Look folks, seriously: if a candidate spends millions of dollars attacking his or her opponent instead of telling us “This is what I believe and this is how I want to serve you…”, why should we trust them with ...
Bev Perdue to stop running negative ads she shouldn’t have run in the first place
So North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Bev Perdue has sworn to stop running negative ads against fellow Democrat primary opponent Richard Moore.
Perdue should have never run any negative ads, period.
Notice how she’s only promising to do this for the primary. Perdue is saying nothing about abstaining from negative campaigning during the lead-up to the November general election. If she had done that, and stuck with it throughout the campaign season, I might be tempted to consider her.
But as it is, I’m still sticking with the policy that I announced last week: any candidate who runs even a single negative campaign commercial or pulls some other “dirty trick” that is easily attributable to his or her campaign, will not get my vote. Because doing such a thing proves beyond all doubt that said candidate does not sincerely want to serve the people. It means that they ...