President Obama is fond of blaming the unpopularity of his health care reform on Republican “scare tactics” (at least when he’s not asserting that failure to do his bidding will lead to national bankruptcy), and now a special election in Kentucky has revealed just how low Republican candidates are prepared to stoop.
As reported with shock and awe by CNN’s Gloria Borger:
Consider the results of a recent “open seat” special election for the state senate in a Democratic district in rural eastern Kentucky: Republican Jimmy Higdon beat the Democrat Jodie Haydon by tying him to, of all things, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats.
“Congress is out of control,” one effective ad intoned, “and [Haydon] will bring Nancy Pelosi’s one-party control of government to Frankfurt.”
Republican Higdon won by 12 points.
“Of all things,” indeed! Why, the unmitigated gall! The in-the-gutter name calling! The disgraceful personal attack of calling a Democrat … a Democrat!
