When you have neglected your state, the voters barely remember you, you have a voting record long in support of George W. Bush, and you haven’t done anything for your state in 6 years, there is one path to take to Victory in North Carolina – Homosexual Panic!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sam Graves of Missouri have have run the worst gay bashing campaign thus far for a House seat, but Liddy Dole has just crawled into the mud in hitting Kay Hagan with ties to not only gay people (gasp!) but ATHEISTS as well (horrors!). The link with visuals of Dole’s fliers below.
http://pageoneq.com/news/2008/…
Somewhere in Hell, Jesse Helms is smiling.
If anyone reads this diary please drop a mention in the comments of who you believe has run the most homophobic campaign for the Senate and House in 2008.
Peace.
after all, he’d be such a great spokesman on this — maybe she’ll even bring in Larry Craig, Lindsay Graham, David Drier, Jim McCrery. Mark Foley, Ed Schrock, Armstrong WIlliams and a lot of her other Republican friends in to join her queer bashing campaign.
Ironically, Kay Hagan defeated an openly gay man to win the Democratic nomination and suddenly now she is the tool of the dreaded “homosexual lobby”.
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Beyond Liddy Dole, in terms of who has run the worst homophobic campaign so far (at least from the evidence I’ve seen):
1. The winner has got to be Roger Wicker in Mississippi — his guilt by association ad would be hilarious if it wasn’t so twisted — somehow he claims that Musgrove must be pro-gay because he got money from the DSSC, who got money from a gay rights group…ergo, that means the Village People show up in full regalia in his ad to scare the Mississippi Bible thumpers. Of course Musgrove is (unfortunately) quite anti-gay himself – making the ad even more offensive.
2. I’ve got to give the second spot to Sam Graves — Kay Barnes is a good mayor and good friend to the LGBT community, and Graves attacks on her have been way below the belt.
3. James Inhofe in Oklahoma – he has used a variety of innuendo to imply that his talented opponent State Senator Andrew Rice is gay (although his wife probably objects to that characterization). Inhofe is am embarrassment to the state and the Senate – global warming denier, hate mongering, radical right winger. His entire campaign has been based on trying to cast Oklahoma native Rice as some kind of dangerous outsider who “does see the world the way we do” (sound familiar?).
I’m sure there are plenty of other examples out there, but these are my top 3…
Of course the winner of the campaign season has got to be the campaign spending millions to write discrimination in the California (and FL and AZ) constitution — there are plenty of right wing candidates (Tom McClintock, Wally Herger, Brian Bilbray, Ric Keller, the Diaz-Balart brothers, Sydney Hay, etc) hoping to ride the coattails of hate into Congress…