Since I was in town, I couldn’t help but attend, and I had a ball trying to make subjects and predicates agree. I’m not saying these folks are stupid, but when they joke about peeing in their pants, I start to wonder. I also got a few funny looks when I started yelling, “is there as dentist in the house”? Not that their teeth were especially bad, but we were missing cartons of Listerine that would have made the whole event more shall I say tolerable.
I got into a bit of trouble, working on the O’Donnell campaign, when I started passing out two sides handouts, one side with Ahmadinejad’s photo and the other side my lasted ad for Christine.
Nobody really hassled me because I don’t think their eyes or brains could focus. Anyway,
here’s the ad.
A Rachel Peepers long form.
HEADLINE:
Regardless of what Coons may have learned in Kenya, U.S. soldiers aren’t murderers and baby killers.
COPY:
John Kerry learned that the hard way. But that’s the only way some people learn.
I hate to go back to that article Chris Coons wrote in his college newspaper (“the bearded Marxist” one) upon returning from keyna; the article choke-full of anti American sentiments, railing about America’s “faults and failures,” but when you’re running for the Senate (or the Presidency) the voting public should know if you’ve ever admitted in writing that you hate the red, white and blue.
My advice to Chris is that he stops repeating and writing and defining “America’s faults and failures” if he wants to get elected. When asked to clarify, Coons says he was joking in the headline but serious in the body copy. Which, in 14 years of writing, I’ve never heard of doing. Even the “NY Times Style Book” would discourage such a tact.
Unless you’re making a point.
Coons got into enough trouble with the fact that Harry Reid still calls Coons his pet. What an awful thing for any Delaware voter to believe. I can’t understand why Chris hasn’t denied it. Or did Coons think it was another joke?
To any taxpayer, though, the following isn’t funny.
The fact that Coons is on the record pledging to vote in favor of Obama’s Cap and Trade Bill which newspapers from Riverhead, LI, to Huntington Beach, California have pointed out will send energy prices through the roof bothers me to no end.
And completes the Coons pattern of raising taxes like rabbits raise families.
“Chris Coons, with his record of raising taxes has shown throughout his career that he would rather take orders and directives from Nancy Pelosi and Reid than do what’s right for Delaware and his country; the nation with all the “faults and failures” which, of course, appeared in that infamous Coons’ article.” (Delaware Spokesman, Thomas Doheny)
“Coons, 47, is the top executive of New Castle County, home to a majority of Delaware’s population. From a Republican perspective, there’s one really important thing to know about his time in office: In 2004, when Coons first ran for the job, he promised not to raise taxes. Since then he has raised taxes not once, not twice, but three times.
“Coons inherited a surplus. Celebrating victory on election night in 2004, he said his “top priority would be to continue balancing the budget without increasing property taxes,” according to an account in the local News Journal. Yet in 2006, he pushed through a 5 percent increase in property taxes. In 2007, he raised property taxes 17.5 percent. In 2009, he raised them another 25 percent.
“Coons wanted to raise other taxes, too. He proposed a hotel tax, a tax on paramedic services, even a tax on people who call 911 from cell phones.” (Byron York, Washington Examiner, 9/17/10)
Christine O’Donnell is on the side of small government and big economy. And that’s how she’ll vote. Better still, she’ll vote to repeal ObamaCare because she thinks there’s nothing funny about deep-sixing the best medical care in the world. Isn’t the United States a great country; it’s nothing short of the best country in the world. Regardless of the size of the smirk on the face of Chris Coons.
