Union News Leader and inside you’ll find Congressman Wamp’s latest ad for re-election. The entire ad pounds one issue home over and over: “Democrats are wimps and Republicans are strong.” Please give me something other than the typical schoolyard slurs and slogans. If wishes were horses we’d all… well, you get the idea.
My favorite part of the ad is printed in all caps:
FACE THE ISLAMIC JIHADISTS AND THEIR TERRORIST TACTICS HEAD ON.
Really? Is there something Wamp isn’t telling us? Did he recently sign up to become a mercenary in Afghanistan or Iraq to go whoop on some jihadis? Silly me, I thought his job was to be our representative in Congress. Even sillier, I thought that job entailed more than one issue.
At the top of the ad, he’s quoted as saying, “we can’t stay the course in Iraq, but we also can’t retreat or leave prematurely…” It goes on to say that, “we need to send more troops…so we can leave Iraq sooner.” Hmm, that sounds an awful lot like what Democrats have been saying for months, some for years, as well as a whole lot like what the Generals told the White House before the invasion.
The only issue Wamp bothers with is security, and this message is delivered in bite sized chunks so dumbed down, and replete with overused political chestnuts, that they are an insult to the intelligence of the average fourth grader. I know we are not much here in the hills of the 3rd district but try not to insult us while begging for our votes.
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