Today, a brand-new political action committee named Louisianans United for Reform, launched a $9,315 radio ad attacking candidate Chris Roy, Jr. on behalf of Lance Maxwell. PointeCoupeeDemocrat is going to tell you all about the people behind this “new” political action committee later tonight, but suffice it to say, this is not a reflection of any “new” support for Maxwell. For now, let us deal with the advertisement.
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One of the biggest ironies about the advertisement is that, on the same day we learn that George W. Bush is actually less popular than Richard Nixon was during the height of the Watergate scandal, the Louisianans United for Reform believe it’s appropriate to attack Chris Roy, Jr. for donating money to the 2004 Kerry/Edwards campaign. From Salon.com:
In a Gallup poll released this week, 50 percent of Americans say they “strongly disapprove” of the job Bush is doing as president. That’s the highest strong-disapproval number Gallup has ever seen, besting by two percentage points the 48 percent of Americans who said they “strongly disapproved” of Nixon’s job performance in February 1974.
Nixon resigned six months later.
Based on a Gallup chart, it appears that something like 15 percent of Americans still “strongly approve” of Bush’s job performance. Roughly twice as many Americans believe in astrology.
Incidentally, we also learned today that one out of every four homeless people in America is a veteran.
Seriously, are they running this type of ad all across the State?
I am not sure what parallel universe the Louisianans United for Reform inhabit, but since they are attempting to link Roy to the Kerry/Edwards platform, shouldn’t it be equally instructive for us to link Maxwell to the failed policies of George W. Bush and his administration?
Although neither Maxwell nor Roy have ever casted a single vote in the State legislature, the advertisement makes erroneous and disingenuous assumptions of Roy’s platform based solely on his support of the Kerry/Edwards campaign. Are these people serious? For the past two weeks, Roy has been running a television commercial that mentions, among other things, his pro-life position on abortion, yet this advertisement blatantly lies about his position in a misguided attempt to confuse and scare the conservative base.
But the most egregious thing about the ad isn’t its content (which is somewhat laughable); it is the people who are behind the ad and their continued attempts to skirt the spirit of campaign finance laws in order to use their (outside) influence to mislead voters. Not surprisingly, Louisianans United for Reform are not all Louisianans (even those who are from Louisiana are probably not from District 25), and given their track record, they can hardly be considered pro-“reform.”
Stay tuned.
CenLamar 