This is a very funny and well written article.
Let us hope the Democrats do not read it.
Nancy Pelosi as party leader, forever—even after she is dead!
Then the Dems can run zombies in all the districts—who would know the difference?
Dem candidate Rodney Stooksbury doesn’t actually exist. The DNC/MSM. Fake news, fake candidates.
THIS JUST IN---NSA TRANSCRIPT----CHUCK SCHUMER ON THE PHONE w/ DNC'S TOM PEREZ:
SCHUMER: "For crissake, Perez.....Ossoff is running around Georgia talking w/ a New England accent."
PEREZ: "Elijah Cummings said Ossoff is another JFK......we had to do something."
SCHUMER: "Those cotton-pickin' black boys dont know s**t from Shinola. And this front-page picture of Ossoff ordering Boston clam chowder in a Georgia tea room. why cant Ossoff order Peach Cobbler like every decent southerner?"
PEREZ: "Chuck, I cant help it if the media did not publish Ossoff's Cuber policy."
SCHUMER: "Cuber Policy my Aunt Tilly. Ossoff loses by getting fewer votes than a candidate who doesn't even exist. And I'm gonna shrink-wrap your *** like a burrito and ship you back to Mexico COD, you mush-mouthed latino loser."
Remember about a hundred and fifty years ago when most of the folks in Georgia hated carpetbaggers with a passion? And would do nasty things to them if they got a chance?
Well, I reckon 55% of them still don’t much like them, but stopped short of the Tar, Feathers and running outta town on a rail that carpetbagger Ossoff deserved.
That is interesting. I heard some Democrat hack (could have been Pe-lousy) claiming that the Republican victory in this race was a Pyrrhic victory. (Note: I don't think she knows what "Pyrrhic victory" means--it wasn't the Republicans throwing everything they had at this race.) The reality of this loss is far worse for the Dems than the media let on--not only did they throw buckets of money at this race, but the candidate had to present himself as something he almost certainly is not in order to get as many votes as he did.
It must be a bad time to be a DemocRAT. Their voting base lives in a few urban pockets, mostly on the coasts. They cannot become more rational or start promoting policies to advance freedom, prosperity, compassion, or anything else that normal people support, because their core base won't accept it and the Republicans already promote those policies (at least to get elected). They can lie about who they are, but that strategy is losing effectiveness since they no longer own the news distribution, thanks to the internet.
Wouldn't it be nice if elections were about selecting the candidates best qualified to get specific jobs done, instead of candidates that advance or impede a socialist juggernaut agenda?
Because Ossoff had positioned himself as a centrist, running mainly on a platform of reducing government spending.......
At least Rodney Stooksbury had an address in the district even if he was never at home or answered the door. :)
“But why weren’t they running people long before that?”
Actually it comes down to this, and both parties do it:
If you run a credible candidate against Price that you’re convinced is going to lose anyway, then Price cannot afford to take chances - so he fires up his campaign to get out the vote. When those people vote for Price, they also vote for Trump, along with most or all of the other Republicans.
So it’s a (perfectly legal) way of suppressing the Republican vote a bit, and possibly keeping Trump from winning the state, or other Republicans on the ticket from winning close races.
As we saw in the last election, all it would have taken was a relative handful of districts in PA, WI, and MI where the Dem in Congress felt that he needed to whip up his people to vote...just for the sake of that little Dem in Congress - but quite possibly, that would have flipped those states.
Rodney’s wiki entry is short and amusing. website n/a
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Stooksbury
Great find! Thanks for posting.
I have a question. If you are the dims in GA 6 and you want to run a ghost candidate what would you have to do? I assume file papers to run and presumably have someone sign them. Now given who they ran for POTUS this is nothing for them but it might have proved awkward if by some fluke the ghost dim had won.
Enjoy the Ossoff voters' reaction all over again
In an era of fake news it is only appropriate there be fake candidates.
This story points out how pathetic journalism has become. In 2016 apparently not one reporter from the Atlanta newspaper or local television stations, including PBS, sought to obtain an interview from the Democrat candidate running against Tom Price. Atlanta is a major city, major media market. If a reporter did seek an interview, and discovered Mr. Stooksbury did not exist, apparently the presence of a ghost candidate was not considered to be newsworthy.
The logical conclusion is political journalists do no real investigative reporting. Perhaps they sit around newsrooms reading press releases from campaigns and talking to party hacks. They then regurgitate what they are spoon fed or write stories outlined by their editors.
If a billionaire purchased a news network, hired real investigative reporters, and turned them loose to write well researched, factual, and non-ideological stories about every dimension of American society that network would dominate news coverage within a few years.
This Current Affairs article represents the type of journalism we used to receive in newspapers and magazines before the media became propaganda outlets for the progressive movement.
Does America have a malaria problem I haven't heard about?
Possibly an alias for Rodney stoaksbury age 61 of Andersonville, Tennessee?
If they are going to put up an imaginary person, how about “George Kaplan”? (North by Northwest reference)
This “ghost” trick is nothing new. Fifty or sixty years ago lawyers and others would run for public office, not to win, but just to get name recognition out there. Most of the time there was never a photo of such candidates.
One got the scare of his life when he almost won and election.
I see this as an opportunity for Democrats. Because both Hillary and Elizabeth Warren are effectively unelectable for POTUS, they should run Rodney Stooksbury for POTUS, with either Warren or Hillary for VP.
They could get some of their Silicon Valley billionaires to make a computer generated Stooksbury, and get their lickspittle MSM to crank out tons of fake news positive press for him, going full nineteen-eighty-four.
Then California could pass a law permitting VR candidates to run for POTUS, and get the 9th Circuit to agree that it is perfectly constitutional, delaying it going to the SCOTUS as long as possible.
Of course if they won, Sooksbury would immediately resign and give the office to either Hildebeast or Fauxcahontus.
The bottom line is that this scheme would probably have better odds than any of the multitude of the current schemes they have right now.