Is There Any Way We Can Make The Big Tents Smaller?
This isn’t on the same level as the latest mortification of the Volunteer State, but is like a delicate lilting counterpoint: the Washington GOP has apparently accidentally nominated Bruce Miller (or metric equivalent) for a state position. Wanting to field some candidate – any candidate – they neglected to actually consider his platform, and the results are – well, see for yourselves.
How often does this happen? The guy in Tennessee is running against a safe incumbent, this fellow is going against a three-term winner; presumably no sensible career politican wants to get set up for a fall in races like these. So I imagine there are lots of eccentric major-party candidates out there. Please keep your eyes open. (Especially you, WWB.)
Of course not. Dennis Kucinich is presumably still running for re-election to his House seat. He may have thrown in the towel on his presidential run, but I doubt he’s disavowed his exuberantly wacky Department of Peace plan.
But if it’s real malfeasance you want, look no further than once and likely soon to be again Rep. Cynthia McKinney, who rocketed to stardom with her allegation that George W. Bush knew about the 9/11 attacks in advance. And when she lost her re-election bid in ’02, her father Billy McKinney (who was simultaneously ousted from his Georgia House seat) blamed it all on: “Jews. J-E-W-S. Jews.” Wacky! McKinney eked out a primary win last month and is almost assured her old seat.
Then there’s New York 19 House candidate Janine Selendy, who seems to be a fairly decent person, but whose campaign team seems to have been running around calling her Democratic primary challenger a Communist in league with Iranian spies.
Wackos come in all shapes, sizes and political persuasions.
Too, too true. But presumably these people aren’t all Republicans, right?
Here’s the great Peter Bagge on Keyes, by the way.
Two words: Alan Keyes.