Casey (D) Contributor Wishes Romanelli (G) Could be Dragged by Pick-Up Truck, Later Offers "Regret"

The Spin (at the Daily Pa.) ^ | October 12 | Stephen Morse

[PghBaldy]

Sex columnist & Casey [D-Pa] donor Dan Savage said - "Carl Romanelli" [G-Pa] "should be dragged behind a pickup truck until there's nothing left but the rope." (2:41)... This story has gotten VERY LITTLE press coverage. UPDATE: He did offer mealy-mouthed "regrets" for comments, but had to bring up Ann Coulter in the process...

[PghBaldy]

FEC data:

SAVAGE, DAN SEATTLE, WA 98122 INDEX NEWSPAPERS/WRITER CASEY, BOB (D) Senate - PA BOB CASEY FOR PENNSYLVANIA COMMITTEE $2,000 general 06/02/06 _______________________

UPDATE

Half-hearted "regret" for words:

"Here's the diff between me and Coulter," he wrote. "I regret using that truck metaphor, and didn't mean it literally, and it was in poor taste, and I regret it. Jeezuhs, never have three Hoegardens before someone points a camera at your face. But the Green in the race there is scum, and should be slapped -- just slapped -- and slapped hard. Not literally, though. No violence." http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/hottype/061020/

[Tribune7]

ping

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Let me guess, he was "misquoted". Later, he'll offer an "apology" where he essentially says that anybody who is offended is confused or just stupid.

[darkangel82]

"and didn't mean it literally, and it was in poor taste,"

Everything Dan Savage does is in poor taste.

[John Jorsett]

But the Green in the race there is scum, and should be slapped -- just slapped -- and slapped hard.

Make up your mind. Slapped, dragged behind a pickup, beaten with sticks, or run over with a truck?

[domenad]

Um, okay what he said was bad and all, but damn if it wasn't poetic. I'm gonna use that one for sure.

[VOA]

Casey (D) Contributor Wishes Romanelli (G) Could be Dragged by
Pick-Up Truck, Later Offers "Regret"

I wondered what other strategy Desperate Democrats would use during
Campaign 2006.
Other than "God Talk" from Claire McCaskill in Missouri and
from Ford in Tennessee.

Now I see what happens when a Democrat starts defending the
last ditch.

[PghBaldy]

I just sent this to Rick Santorum. The hearted hearted non-apology apology is a real winner. Dan Savage is somewhat well-known. I am (still somewhat naively) surprised this has gotten LITTLE or NO coverage. I found it while searching for pornographers who gave to Dems... You find the oddest things searching for those Dem donors.

[PghBaldy]

I justed called Rick Santorum's office and told him everything... I was SO nervous. Anyway, they will look into it he said (he was whomever answered the phone).

[Maelstorm]

I pray Sanatorum wins this. I'm not sure what is wrong with PA. I think it is Philadelphia but I may be wrong.

[ikka]

Dan Savage is the vicious little homosexual who joined the Gary Bauer presidential campaign in 2000, and when he had a bad cold or the flu, went around licking doorknobs.

Of course he wrote an article about this and got paid for it by Salon.com .

[PghBaldy]

That's horrible. I vaguely remember it.