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Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Dirty Tricks
Yesterday was election day here in Virginia. It was a chance for bad guys to win by doing dirt to a good guy. Bad guys had that chance but they did not...whew!.... succeed. Low-down, evil Republicans, reaching well below the mark set by the Nixon administration, tried to discredit Lieutenant Governor Kaine in his bid for the governor's seat. Such a web of inuendo and lies they sewed together, crazy stuff mostly designed to appeal to the worst instincts of down-south backwoods racists or, in an opposite flip, to enrage minority voters. It was all beyond belief which is why it almost worked. If you do something so crudely terrible that no one would even dream of trying it, no one will believe the evidence of their eyes/ears/minds when you actually go ahead and make it happen. Moral: when you wish to get away with being rotten, go big and you might realize your fiendish dream. In this case, the bad guys did not get away with their no-good scheme. Kaine was elected and Jerry Kilgore and his shockingly vile henchpersons will have to try again some other time.
What do I mean by "vile"? OK. Here's one small example. Tim Kaine's campaign placed political ads all over the internet wherever they thought that voters might see and read. One such place is a blog run by a black guy. On this same blog the Kilgore campaign then quickly paid to place an ad which featured a black man in whiteface doing a Steppin'Fetchit-like impersonation. Offended, the Kaine campaign pulled their ad. Gleeful, the Kilgore campaign hurriedly took down their own ad and then went to the print media with the accusation that Kaine refused to advertise in a minority-run situation thus proving that he's a racist. That's the technique; set up a lie and then exploit it as though it were evidence of unfitness for office.
Well, his many, many instances of this slimey approach to the political process failed to get Kilgore into office...which proves that good guys win once in a while in spite of dirty tricks designed to keep them down. So, I guess this first Tuesday of November, 2005, was a good day for truth, justice, and the American way.
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