{"id":11023,"date":"2017-08-17T18:10:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T23:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=11023"},"modified":"2017-08-17T18:10:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T23:10:48","slug":"they-seem-to-have-a-visual-range-of-about-one-nose-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/08\/17\/they-seem-to-have-a-visual-range-of-about-one-nose-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"They Seem To Have A Visual Range Of About One Nose, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of days ago I mentioned<\/a> the\u00a0GOP\u00a0<\/b><\/i>primary for the special election to fill Jeff Sessions old Senate seat, which happened last Tuesday. No one crossed the 50% rubicon, so the top two finishers, former Chief Justice Roy Moore (he who can’t seem to disentangle his religious inclinations from his civil obligations) and current seat holder by appointment Luther Strange (whose accession to the seat is full of red flags – see this post<\/a>) will move to a runoff to win the right to face – and probably defeat – the Democratic candidate, former U.S. attorney Doug Jones.<\/p>\n

But what surprised me was this mention, via\u00a0AL.com<\/b><\/i>, in the post-election\u00a0reporting\u00a0<\/a>on US Representative Mo Brooks, who came in third in the GOP primary. This is a Republican candidate, mind you, in a party-segregated primary:<\/p>\n

But Strange and McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund [SLF] flooded the state for weeks with attack ads against Brooks – suggesting that he was more closely aligned with top House Democrat Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n

“Nancy Pelosi and I are not best friends,” Brooks said as the audience laughed. “If you don’t take my word for it, ask Nancy Peolosi.”<\/p>\n

Brooks also said that, contrary to another SLF ad, “I do not support the Islamic state.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First of all, you might as well call it\u00a0eating your own young<\/i>\u00a0when you accuse a candidate of your own Party of the moral equivalent to treason. This for a Representative whose “Trump Score,” which\u00a0FiveThirtyEight\u00a0<\/b><\/i>defines as the percentage of votes an elected official’s votes coincides with the result desired by Trump, is\u00a092.5%<\/a>\u00a0as of this writing. It is mendacity of a startling order. It’s just about as surprising as attempting<\/a> to\u00a0RINO\u00a0<\/b><\/i>Speaker Ryan out of the party.<\/p>\n

Secondly, I have to wonder just how ignorant the Alabama voters have become. To really think someone like Mo Brooks supports the\u00a0Islamic State\u00a0<\/b><\/i>requires a level of ignorance about the world and about the Republicans that is more than a little hard to believe. Of course, this type of ad is a choice by the\u00a0SLF\u00a0<\/b><\/i>– perhaps they only perceive Alabama to be full of ignoramuses.<\/p>\n

It’s a bit of a gob-smack.<\/p>\n

But if you consider the atrocity that\u00a0Fox News\u00a0<\/b><\/i>has committed on its viewers, it actually makes sense.\u00a0Fox News\u00a0<\/b><\/i>viewers, carefully manipulated to only know what\u00a0Fox News\u00a0<\/b><\/i>wants them to know, must be wooed in a different manner than well-informed viewers. Perhaps this is the style. Throw even a Party loyalist under the truck when they are not the favored candidate – you have to wonder if there’ll be damage to Brooks in the next House election.<\/p>\n

Or is it just that the\u00a0GOP\u00a0<\/b><\/i>is now full of attack weasels?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of days ago I mentioned the\u00a0GOP\u00a0primary for the special election to fill Jeff Sessions old Senate seat, which happened last Tuesday. No one crossed the 50% rubicon, so the top two finishers, former Chief Justice Roy Moore (he who can’t seem to disentangle his religious inclinations from his \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11024,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11023\/revisions\/11024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}