The trees stand so silent and still
I know you're alone with your pride dear
In your loveless mansion on the hill
now I think Lois Capps should get an Oscar for her ads against Chris Mitchum...I know some folks were miffed at Lois for her "dirty" campaign...Chris was all huffy that Lois used images and words in her ads that displayed him unfavorably...
but is this a new thing? no of course not...all you need to do is check out history and the politicals ads, slogans, buttons and campaigns that preceded the 2014 mid-term elections...
and political ads are no different than any other ads..they try to sell something...beer ads try to sell beer to young folks with idiotic references to a better life though beer...same with hard liquor...supposedly getting drunk is gonna make you more sophisticated...
so some of the founding fathers engaged in campaigns that makes today's stuff seem tame...
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were two of the "pioneers" of political slandering in the United States. From the article "Founding Fathers' Dirty Campaign" by Kerwin Stint (CNN) (8/22/08
Jefferson's camp accused President Adams of having a "hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman."
In return, Adams' men called Vice President Jefferson "a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father."
a mulatto? well you know the News-Press claims that Lois is gonna hand over her office to daughter Laura soon..and Laura married a black dude...well half-black like Obama...I hope she's happy in her mansion on a hill
As the slurs piled on, Adams was labeled a fool, a hypocrite, a criminal, and a tyrant, while Jefferson was branded a weakling, an atheist, a libertine, and a coward.
The campaign slander and defamation of John Q. Adams vs. Andrew Jackson is legendary. From "American President: A Reference Resource" by the Miller Center at the University of Virginia:
A good deal of mud was slung on both sides, much of it aimed at Jackson's marriage, his violent escapades, and the incidents of ferocious discipline and of disrespect for civilian authority that dotted his military career. Adams men painted him as a grasping and bloodthirsty character, a budding tyrant in the model of Caesar or Napoleon, whose election would spell the death of the republic. Jacksonians branded Adams as a corruptionist, an aristocrat, and-ridiculously-a libertine.
a libertine...hmmmm...maybe that's what we need...The Libertine Party!!! ok, I'm the first member
so I said the mid-terms biggest losers were the teabaggers like Ted Cruz from Texas...back in 2010 when the Tea Party PAC Freedom Works ousted the good guy Republican Bob Bennett from Utah.."That the Tea Party would consider Bob Bennett -- one of the most conservative members of the U.S. Senate -- too liberal just goes to show how extreme the Tea Party is," Timothy M. Kaine, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said in a statement. "This is just the latest battle in the corrosive Republican intra-party civil war . . . If there was any question before, there should now be no doubt that the Republican leadership has handed the reins to the Tea Party
I was watching Bennet last night on a C-Span forum about the 2014 mid-terms and he blasted Ted Cruz as something to be expelled from the body politic...he noted that most Republicans are running away from the Teabaggers now..and back to more moderate Republicans...
the guy who beat Bennett, Mike Lee was a pal of Ted Cruz and now Lee is in some trouble poliitcally....first he got caught up in the housing boom and bust: Washington • Less than two years into office, Sen. Mike Lee was forced to sell his dream home in Alpine with his mortgage bank taking a significant loss — up to $400,000 — in a "short sale" as the housing bust in his neighborhood drained his house's value.
Lee purchased the home for around $1.1 million in January 2008, at the height of the housing boom and when he was working as a private practice lawyer. But as home prices dipped and he was elected to the Senate, Lee found himself underwater in the home and without the means to pay off the difference.
The home eventually sold for around $720,000, according to Utah County records, after J.P. Morgan Chase agreed to write off the loss in the value and Lee forfeited his "significant" down payment.
"It certainly is something that is painful to go through and I know a lot of people are going through it, and I feel for those who have had to go through it," Lee said Thursday in response to questions from The Salt Lake Tribune.
"It's not fun. It's not something any of us would have chosen. But you do what you have to do when income doesn't match your outlays. You have to pare your outlays down."
now teabaggers are always squawking about fiscal responsibility..living within your means....so Mike Lee buys a house and can't pay the mortgage...and shorts the lender $400000!
what is he doing representing the people in Utah??
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It was fun to see the Capps campaign depict Mitchum with his finger in his earhole. He seemed like some weird troll holed up in a tea party republicans attic in another segment. Then the commercial points out that he would NOT represent the district by not lobbying on behalf of some figurative necessity i.e. a baseball diamond. Too bad so many voted for Mitchum. Too bad so few bothered to vote at all.
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