What's a Bush-friendly Republican to do with an electorate who wants to get as far away from the last eight years as possible? Apparently for Millionaire Mike Sodrel, the answer is to grab hold of your divisive, hateful rhetoric and throw out every hyperbolic statement you can think of. (From the Columbus paper, The Republic)Sodrel, who faces U.S. Rep. Baron Hill, D-Ind., for a fourth consecutive 9th District election, said he believes Americans face losing liberties gained in the Revolutionary War if Obama defeats Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
Electing Obama also would mean more government regulation and higher taxes, Sodrel said.
"As your (county party) chairman pointed out, we're in danger of electing a tyrant," Sodrel said.
"I don't think he's a communist; (Karl) Marx said you had to do it with bullets. I think he's a socialist, and he wants to do it with ballots," Sodrel said. And in a move that would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic, we have a Republican judge accusing the Democrats of embracing fascism."I just want to point out he's not a communist. He's not a socialist. He's a fascist," said Superior Court 2 Judge Rod McGillivray, who is running against Democrat Kitty Coriden. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. And if you're part of the problem, the only wobbly leg you have to stand on is petty, ugly, and indicative of why the last two Bush terms will go down in history as an abject failure.
The Republic, responding to this story in an editorial yesterday, sums up things nicely. Our point isn't to take a stand for Obama, or against Sodrel and McGillivray as it relates to their elections but rather to take a stand for civility.
What we're saying is that the American people have heard enough of this kind of empty, mean-spirited name-calling. Let us judge candidates by what they say and do, not by what inflammatory labels their political opponents put on them. |
