Posted on 11/19/2010 5:26:03 AM PST by Clintonfatigued
Every election cycle, a few candidates and campaigns stand out as remarkable for their absurdity, their outrageousness, their futility or their sheer gall. They need to be recognized.
No, I’m not talking about a campaign that proves to be remarkable for its weak fundraising (such as Ohio Democratic Senate candidate Lee Fisher) or that runs a weird ad that backfires (like Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Jack Conway’s “Aqua Buddha” ad).
Plenty of candidates come up short or make a mistake. That’s understandable and certainly forgivable. But the candidates and campaigns that follow are in a class of their own. They deserve to be singled out.
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Who?
The dead democrat in CA who was re-elected in 2010? (Or was that the dead democrat in Missouri who was re-elected in 2000?)
The absurd candidates are Tommy Sowers (D-Missouri), Charlie Crist (I-Florida), and Christine O’Donnell (R-Delaware).
Sowers was a long shot with an inflated opinion of himself. Crist is an opportunistic phony whom I’m proud to say I opposed from the word go. The TEA Party has done so much good for the country, everyone should forgive them for their occasional mistakes. But they really should have stayed out of Delaware.
How could Alvin Greene not make this list?
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Barney Frank, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi in any order
Weird list. Even ignoring “Rent is too Damned High” guy because he was a local fringe candidate, I certainly would have included Alvin Greene, the official Democratic Nominee for Senate in South Carolina — a national figure who ran no campaign and won a primary, and then his own party tried to get rid of him.
And they probably should have included Maes in Colorado. If you wanted to point out a tea party failure, that was it — a guy who was pushed hard by tea party to win the nomination, and only then was he vetted and found to be totally unacceptable, so much so that the tea party abandoned him and backed a 3rd-party candidate. At least in Delaware the tea party KNEW they were backing a candidate with no real experience, and knew her negatives, and they just didn’t care.
And I’d also include Paladino, another promising tea party candidate who then turned out to be a hothead with no decency filter who saw nothing wrong with forwarding offensive e-mails. I liked his no-nonsense approach, until it turned out it wasn’t really an approach, it was just he didn’t know how to relate to people any different.
On the democrat side, I would have included Alan Grayson, who thought it was a good idea to take his opponents religious faith and turn it on it’s head — the “Taliban Dan” ad was every bit as bizarre and ridiculed as the Aqua Budha ad by Conway.
Anyway, that’s my picks:
Greene
Maes
Palidino
Grayson
The “Awesome Alvin Greene” please. Can’t omit the awsome.
Anyone need an e? I have one I’m not using.
As opposed to what? Nominating Castle, an uber-liberal pubbie whose views run counter to conservatives in just about all categories?
How could a “Most Outrageous, Absurd Candidates of 2010” list not include that nutcase that ran against DeMint?
Given the way things turned out Castle wouldn’t have won anyway in my opinion. Still, O’Donnell’s negatives did not reflect well on the Tea Party. It may be impossible but I hope they do better vetting next time.
Whole villages voted for her federal government GRAFT.. (earmarks)..
They could care less about this Republic and voted for Freebies..
Not is she weird but corrupt.. materialistic.. opportunistic..
Alaska needs to legislate "recall" legislation..
Funny, what this list says about Christine O’Donnell are the same things that applied to 0bama in 2008.
And, in fact, she didn’t seem to have a job when she began her third run for Senate’
How many other Americans didn’t have a job last summer???
Maybe someone who knows how to live close to the bone would make a good cost-cutter in the Federal bloated government.
The 20 Most Memorable Moments of Campaign 2010
I'm surprised that thread didn't get more posts. Some of the video clips in the linked site were hilarious. #20 on that list -- GOP primary candidate Basil Marceaux in the Tennessee governor's race -- should be the head of the TSA . . . or maybe the head of the Special Olympics.
Yes, I expected to see Greene in there, too. And what about Alan Grayson?
Are conservatives better off with Chris Coon as Senator?
You made some very good choices.
If Mike Castle wasn't going to be Senator #51, it's impossible to make the argument that conservatives would be better off with him.
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