What's left for the GOP? Sex.

[Neecy]

I don't know about other parts of the country (well, the Corker ad would qualify, I suppose) but lacking a positive agenda of their own the Republicans in my area are obsessing over sex in their attack ads. I suppose this is the only thing they can use to arouse their Puritan base - pun intended. I'm guessing it's also a weak attempt to deflect attention from their own pervy child predators.

Perhaps the most laughable example of this is in the Missouri 6th, where wingnut Sam Graves is spending a huge amount of money to run an attack ad against Democrat Sara Jo Shettles. Ominous music plays while the voiceover claims that Shettles once worked for Penthouse magazine, and the video displays a large photo of a somewhat elderly woman with a huge red "XXX" stamp next to her name. The video and voiceover then claim, "Sara Jo Shettles. Outrageous Values, Dangerous Ideas". What's the problem with this ad? Shettles sold advertising 10 years ago for Omni Magazine - a science magazine - which is owned by the same publishing house that publishes Penthouse. She had nothing to do with Penthouse, but that doesn't stop Graves from this ridiculous smear.
Shettles, by the way, has almost no money in the bank and can't answer this smear - but this race is still somewhat competitive.

Then there's the ad that Talent is running against Claire McCaskill, claiming she has allowed sexual abuse of the elderly for financial gain. The Kansas AG race features the Republican incumbent running an unbelievable smear about his Democratic opponent being sued for sexual harrassment 15 years ago - an ad so terrible and misleading that even Republicans in Kansas have asked that it be pulled.

Typical Republican nuts - they obviously haven't scared people with the terrorists, so now they're trying to scare them with sex. Hide the children! Another Republican ad is airing!

[Atman]

1. They wish.

Oh, you mean as their next divisive wedge issue!

:)

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[derby378]

2. Ah, but scientific facts ARE "dangerous ideas"

Dangerous to GOP domination in Congress, that is... :evilgrin: