Negativity in Nevada.
Maurice Washington is running to keep his seat in the Nevada state senate, and I caught his ad against his opponent,
John Emerson.The worst things Washington could dredge up against his opponent was that he supports the ACLU and has endorsements from major labor unions. including both major teachers unions. Worse yet - oh horrors - the Emerson
opposes the death penalty.
Or in other words - Emerson is a
Democrat. God, the man's incisive command of the subtle nuances of the principles involved is just boggling.
Want to know where Washington stands on the death penalty?
Washington has cast votes against banning the death penalty for juveniles in Nevada, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the practice constituted cruel and unusual punishment.
Opposes the ACLU and wants to execute children. Clearly the problem with our society is the lack of good old-fashioned lynchings.
The rest of the story shows why
Washington isn't running on his record of positive social achievements.
It just stuns me that a black minister - would go on record as being against civil rights, against unions and against good education, while being for killing more people - people who are statistically poor, black and minority citizens; citizens with civil rights, despite convictions.
To me, "Conservatism" involves conserving things that you, personally know to be of value. Seems to me that a black man who was born in 1956 - a year before me - should have some appreciation for the forces that made it possible to reach as high as he has. And it seems to me that a minister should have some concept of What Jesus Would Do.
But, somehow, I don't think Washington's Jesus is the same as Martin Luther King's, so I guess that's why he has to be a Republican.
And then there is the case of our US Senator, the distinguished hair and teeth from Nevada.
Oh, why did I know that John Ensign would get down-low and make use of this supposed "carpetbagger" issue? I did a little research on this a while back and it turned out that not one of the Senators elected to John Ensign's seat were born in Nevada. This includes the ensignificant Senator himself: Ensign was born in Roseville, California. His family moved to Nevada when he was a child. His mo...
Turn Tahoe Blue - Sun 5:15 p.m.
Ensign is actually having to work to maintain his lead against Carter against increasing blog buzz, and against the damned accurate observations that he really doesn't do one hell of a lot for us. I can understand that going negative is a huge temptation - but first, you should have something bad to say. The worst thing he can come up with is "he ain't from around here." Indeed, it establishes that Carter is an unusually well-traveled man.
With all that money slushing and sloshing about his coffers, the most damning thing he could come up with is something that Carter himself talks about at length? I suppose Ensign really can't run on his own record, either -
seeing that's what Carter is doing.Imagine the horrible specter of a politician from Nevada who's most questionable judgements have been to move to Las Vegas from Bermuda and to wear a bucket hat in public. How could we
possibly live that down?
His
"Vote for me, I have great hair and I love kittens" ads were less embarrassing. I'm really tired of being embarrassed by my political representatives and my government.
tag: Ensign,
Nevada Senate,
US Senate,
2006,
Maurice Washington,
Negative Ads,
Republicans
