Posted on 10/10/2007 8:21:29 PM PDT by RKB-AFG
Will state voters respond to Eaves' Bible-thumping campaign?
By Sid Salter
Incumbent Republican Gov. Haley Barbour is using his campaign war chest on television commercials that talk about his record on job creation, work force training and his leadership in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
When Barbour's TV ads aren't talking about those topics, the ads focus on reminding people that Democratic challenger John Arthur Eaves Jr. is a wealthy, successful personal injury lawyer who has taken cases for plaintiffs who sued the U.S. military or the federal government.
Eaves is spending a lot of money on television ads, too. In those ads, Eaves is using his commercials to talk about expanding public health care, school prayer and religious teaching in the public schools and about Barbour "serving" a group he calls "the moneychangers" both as a wealthy, successful Washington lobbyist and later as governor.
In his most recent TV spot, Eaves actually holds a Bible and accuses Barbour of "making millions" lobbying for "big oil, big tobacco and big insurance" companies.
By contrast, Eaves says in the spot, he serves "regular Mississippians" as a trial lawyer. "It's a question of who you serve," Eaves says.
(Excerpt) Read more at magnoliareport.com ...
Maybe Eaves can put together a campaign ad targeted for the back of Bibles, instead of the back of phone books where trial lawyer ads usually are placed.
Eaves’ ads are so blatantly transparent that I do not think many will be fooled. No matter what he says he still comes across as a fat assed oily trial lawyer.
He serves regular mississippians.He’s a trial lawyer? LMAO Gimme a break!
He is divorced isn’t he? It would be interesting to research the details in the court filings.
His latest commercials are even worse. I heard one today that was downright nauseating. Any more religious imagery and he’ll be walking on the Pearl River and casting Republicans out of swine.
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