The blame strategy

[billvon 3,107]

I saw this posted as a joke years back but it's been true so often that it probably has some validity.

When you see a republican go on the attack against something, there's a very good chance that they are doing what they are attacking.  Joel Greenberg and Matt Gaetz come to mind.  Trump saying whoever pleads the fifth is a criminal.  Herschel Walker attacking absentee fathers.  Tim Murphy campaigning against abortion then pressuring his mistress to get an abortion.  Scott DesJarlais campaigning against abortion; his ex-wife had two and he also pressured his mistress to get one.  Family-values politicians Dennis Hastert, Mark Foley and Roy Moore and their affairs with underage kids.  This headline from a news story years ago was eerily prescient: "Speaker J. Dennis Hastert faced intensifying questions on Monday about why Republicans had not reacted more assertively to Representative Mark Foley’s messages to a teenage page."  I guess now we know.

And now Jim Marchant, the GOP nominee for secretary of state in Nevada, has come out strongly against mail-in ballots.  They are rife with fraud, he says: "NO Mail-in ballots! We need to protect our election integrity! VOTE Jim Marchant in 2022 to FIGHT voter fraud!"

You all know what's coming next.  He voted in Florida elections via mail in ballot three separate elections -  2006, 2008 and 2010 - while he was living in Nevada.

[jakee 1,593]

2 hours ago, billvon said:

You all know what's coming next.  He voted in Florida elections via mail in ballot three separate elections -  2006, 2008 and 2010 - while he was living in Nevada.

He was just doing research.

[billvon 3,107]

47 minutes ago, jakee said:

He was just doing research.

You may have a good angle there.

I think pastor Ted Haggard could use that.  He was "just doing research" into the evils of homosexuality and drugs when he paid a gay hooker in methamphetamine.  Now he knows!  Nothing wrong with that.  Why do liberals hate knowledge?