Bush Campaigns for Pa., Va. Candidates

[brooklynite]

A PLUME, Pa. Oct 19, 2006 (AP)— President Bush campaigned Thursday for a congressman who has confessed to adultery and a senator accused of racial insensitivity, seeking to boost incumbent Republicans once safe for re-election but now in peril.

Bush's appearances for Rep. Don Sherwood here and for Sen. George Allen in Richmond, Va., found the White House on the defensive over the decision to try to help candidates in such straits as the GOP struggles to keep control of Congress.

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Sherwood has held one of the safest seats in Congress, his conservatism playing well in his heavily Republican, rural district in northeastern Pennsylvania. Democrats didn't even bother fielding a candidate in the past two elections. But last year, Sherwood admitted to a five-year extramarital affair with a woman 35 years his junior. He settled a lawsuit that claimed he had choked her he has denied he abused her and has aired a campaign commercial asking constituents to forgive his infidelity.

Helping to raise more than $300,000 for Sherwood, Bush only obliquely addressed the controversy.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2588417

Okay, I realize the Republican ship is leaking all over the place, but what advance man came up with the idea of sending the President out to shmooze with an adulter (should go over great with the Social Conservatives) accused of assault, and and racial bigot all in the same day?

[Olney Blue]

1. I heard it was pre-scheduled.

[brooklynite]

2. THAT's a weak excuse...

The President should be able to get out of ANY inconvenient appointment...all he has to do is claim a pressing work obligation (say, a crisis in Iraq?).

[Olney Blue]

5. another weak excuse from the weakest link

or maybe missing link

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Sink two birds with one stone? Good move, Chimpy.

We appreciate the conservation of fuel in AF-1.

[struggle4progress]

4. Stranglehold Sherwood and Noosedangle Allen make a lovely couple.