Name Calling is the Most Sincere Form of Slattery
August 26, 2008
Here’s a quick lesson in campaigning … don’t give interns administrator privileges - ever, or let them drink on the job.
The below email [believe it or not] was sent out by Jim Slattery’s campaign earlier today. Jim Slattery, [sweet name] is the brave individual who was tricked by his friends into thinking he could beat legendary Kansas Senator Pat Roberts this November. [Like showing up to knife fight with a Popsicle stick]
Text of the email: In an effort to share the story of average Kansans, we need your testimonials on where Pat Roberts went wrong and how he let you and your family down. This is your chance to share your motivations. Getting our country back on the right track is going to take a lot of work and step number one here in Kansas is removing Pat Roberts from office.
So far so good, until you scroll down and read this…
John from Dodge City shared this, “Pat Roberts…is an asshole”
We don’t much about politicking here at FDC, but we do know that this probably isn’t the best way to lend credibility to one’s campaign.
Wow.
Screen grab below. [note: we added the arrow]
well, he *is* an asshole.
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Yeah, he is definitely an asshole. Real quote, just probably not the place for it.
I mean, the guy has his first challenge for re-election, so he realizes “Hey, maybe I should go back to that place…what was it called? Kasnas?”
This is the guy that the LA Times called “Chairman of the Senate Cover-Up Committee.” He’s the guy that voted to weaken our export laws for highly enriched uranium at the behest of a Canadian company. He voted with John McCain to include European countries in the list of places from which the United States Government could “buy American.”
He voted for his good buddy Ted “Series of Tubes” Stevens’ $200+ million “bridge to nowhere” and against Katrina relief. He voted against extending unemployment benefits for airline workers put out of a job after 9/11 (but for bailing out the companies that fired them).
Basically, if Pat Roberts looks around, and he sees a little guy getting screwed by a company, he votes to let the company screw the little guy harder.
To quote Pat Roberts’ BFF George W. Bush, “That guy is a major league asshole.”
And that is the one thing the producers of the “share your story” software were scared of when I worked with them.
CapAdvantage was the first to have that type of product out there and I used it on some advocacy sites for Medicare and Medicaid. Almost daily I would have to remove stories about old people shitting themselves or talking about how they wanted Viagra to be covered.
Of all the amazingly ridiculous, juvenile, and profane comments from this guy “John from Dodge City”, the single most laughable comment was this one:
“the guy has his first challenge for re-election”
What a joke! You’re a funny guy John from Dodge City! …challenge to re-election! FROM SLATTERY????? STOP!!!!! I CAN”T TAKE ANYMORE!!!
I still haven’t received my every 6 year “newsletter” from Pat Roberts. Maybe there wasn’t enough to fill up the card.