Jul 30 2007
Attention video people: Time to stick it to the VT GOP
It’s really no secret in VT that Gov. Jim Douglas keeps winning because of two reasons: (1) his robot-like 1950’s persona seems to fool many that he’s an okay moderate kind of guy, and (2) the Dems can’t seem to put a decent candidate up to run against him. The Clavelle campaign was a walking joke, and Scudder Parker didn’t seem to get the necessary traction, and at least to me and others I talk to, came across as a rather unassertive wuss.
Anyways, at this point there’s not much that I can personally do about getting a decent candidate in the race, but I do want to let you know about a groovy little contest over at GMD.
Time to get out the cameras and/or microphones and start following Republicans to public meetings and events. Ask the tough questions, get them on record and put it out on the intertubes as a permanent record. Ask them how they voted on the global warming bill, death with dignity, campaign finance. Ask how they feel about gay marriage, IRV, the RNC hiding from a subpoena behind “executive privilege.” Ask them in front of GOP crowds. Get a hold of a video editor and add your own music and effects, or just post it raw. Nobody’s gonna do this for us, folks, so lets start to kick it up a notch.
To that end, GMD will have a contest: make your own internet ad that tells voters why its time to stop voting for Jim Douglas.
You can probably remember the VA Senate race last year where racist GOP sleazebag and then-senator George Allen had his “macaca’ moment, putting his casual, callous racism out there for all the world to see, and it most definitely had a hand in his undoing. Now, I’m not expecting something that dramatic from the VT GOP, but nevertheless, you can count on them to say some pretty stupid and/or revealing things that might not sit so well with the electorate. Got a camera? Give it a try.
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I’ve never heard Jim Douglas say anything stupid. Honestly, I love his robot-like 1950s persona and I don’t want to see him lose. That’s my heart talking. I have a non-sexual gay crush on Jim Douglas that defies all my leftist tendancies, and all reason. Sorry.
Haik, the more time you spend here, the stranger you get… Perhaps you should let ol' Jimmy boy know how you really feel about him.
Perhaps you should let ol’ Jimmy boy know how you really feel about him.
If I can get him to make out with me on camera, would that help your cause at all?