Thursday, April 27, 2006

SKEEEE-ARY

I swear, politics and politicians just get queerer and queererer. I'm forgoing my own state's political crap to focus on West Virginia. Why WV, you say? Two reasons. One is Robert Byrd is being challenged by what I consider a nut-job. The other reason is this 'nut job' sent a campaign letter to (now follow me here) a former tenant who lived in the garage apartment of the people who previously own our house.

Mind you this tenant hasn't lived there for at least 3yrs and no way to forward the letter. Sure, I may have broken federal law by opening someone else's mail, if you're going to nitpick - but to be fair, the envelope was not sealed. The other mail this past tenant gets are knife catalogues. Not your Wusthof knives - but the Crocodile Dundee kind of knives (disclaimer: I've seen clips, people.....never the movies!).

Ok - so this guy, Hiram Lewis has a four page (count 'em - FOUR) campaign letter. Nothing like beating a dead horse w/your bullet pointed information. Mind you Lewis has made an art out of editing Byrd's comments to make him look unpatriotic. The people who market movies could learn a thing or two on how to spin stuff from this guy. ("I haven't seen a movie like this in years!!!"....when the review probably went on to say "and I hope to never see one like it ever again!").

I don't even know how to convey how off the wall this guys seems. Believe it or not, I'm not engaged enough to scan and post it , but I think I can bullet point some of it myself.

  • He doesn't like any politician (especially Byrd) who hasn't supported or even questioned the department of defense, the military in general or W.
  • snippets of the letter have the words: Hitler, fancy taxpayer funded offices (one of which he wants), undermine's troops, Bush has done an amazing job, WV loves Bush, blah blah blah
Then there are the GOP strong-holds, which you know are coming:

  • Life is sacred (read: repeal Roe v Wade)
  • Marriage is between one man and one woman (does this mean divorce should be illegal? or just remarrying after you divorce?)
  • NRA (he endorses them 100%!)
I love how he ties himself so closely to Shrub, who just two days ago in a CNN poll fell even further to only a 30% approval rating. Way to know your base there, Hiram!

With nothing better to do w/my time (clearly) I also Goooooogled him. There is a hysterical editorial from Huntington News. It's not just me who thinks he's a bit off-center.

...and yes, that is Hiram, sitting in Saddam's 'throne'. It was included in the mailing. HE is a hero!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wonder if I can get a reproduction (Chinois of course!) of that painting.
It'd look FABULOUS in the new house, n'est-ce pas?

And Hiram doesn't thing all those pointy big long missiles are too, you know, G-A-Y???

Anonymous said...

EGGGGSACTLY!!! 'Phallic' doesn't even begin to cover it.