Right on. As Alex Castellanos said yesterday: "If you're making ads that say there is no God, it usually means your campaign doesn't have a prayer."
Elizabeth Dole is desperate now. She is desperate to hang onto this Senate seat so she can remain relevant in her true home, Washington, DC. Without this Senate seat, her lifetime of moving among the powerful will be for naught. However will she get those good tickets to shows at the Kennedy Center. Washington is life to Sugar Lips and, faced with the prospect of having to live at the Watergate and not be called Senator, faced with the prospect of losing her ticket to the salons and dinner parties of the Beltway, faced with living as an everyday Republican in Obama's town, she comes up with filth like this. It's like watching that scene in Trainspotting where the guy needs his hit so bad, he digs it out of the nastiest, foulest toilet in cinema history.
Welcome to addiction, Liddy. It has a way of revealing the worst about you, of boiling you down to the essence of the worst part of your character.
How's that feel?
More importantly, how does it feel when Kay turns it around and shoves it, and gives you a little Sunday School lesson to boot?
Great ad, Kay. Go get her.
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7 comments/complaints:
I agree the ad is unfair. While the atheists are good fits with the Democrats, its not because Democrats are godless heathens. They just agree on a lot of other things.
Heck, Christopher Hitchens supports Bush, and he's a godless American.
If Dole wanted to make a legitimate point, it would have been about "why do the Godless Americans like Democrats?" But that's to nuanced a point for a 30 second ad.
The ad is not only unfair, it's downright dirty. She is implying that atheists are bad people. I'm know a few who are more principled and probably better people than Dole.
I don't care who the politician is, if they play the God card one too many times, they don't get my vote. Religion should not be brought into politics.
"Religion should not be brought into politics"
No, maybe it shouldn't Murali, but it's foolish think that.
Religion, good or bad, has been, and is, the pillar of every society, every civilization, and every country.
Is Dole doing anything worse than what Republicans did with Jeremiah Wright? Is she doing anything worse than what LibDems did to Romney?
I don't think the ad is saying that Atheists are bad, as much as it's saying that Hagan showed bad judgment in meeting with them. *My thought quickly turn to Ayers, Dohrn, Wright, Resko, and Khalidi*
I also have an aversion to any politician that excessively mentions faith and carries religion on their sleeve.
If the ad is saying that Hagan showed bad judgment in meeting with them, it implies that there is something wrong with who she met with.
Obama showed bad judgment in 'palling around with' Ayers? Why? Ayers bombed the Pentagon. That is bad.
Dole is saying that people who don't believe in God are bad. You can make that comment in your living room while having a discussion with your friends, but as a part of political discourse, I just don't like it.
But I agree and understand that it will never go away.
One guy was one of 45 hosts. She hardly went up thhere to meet with atheists. And if she had, has the First Amendment suddenly been amended to say that atheists don't get freedom of religion / conscience?
They don't get to petition their government or participate in politics?
Kay Hagan was right to be offended by this ad because, as a deeply religious person, it is offensive to have your faith questioned, which is exactly what Liddy Dole was doing. But atheists are not inherently bad people and meeting with one certainly isn't something which calls a person's judgment into question.
By the way, anybody know when the last time Dole darkened the door of a church was?
I certainly odn't have a problem with atheists. The ones that bug me are the obnoxious types that organize for the purpose of demeaning the religious. Or attempting to restrain their free exercise of religion. Godless Americans is just such a group. The fact that someone from there is at a fundraiser for Hagan doesn't bother me. It's not like they were close in the way of Obama/Ayers.
The problem I feel that this ad will pose to many North Carolinians is that they will believe it. They may never see Kay Hagan's point -- literally and philosophically. I've seen Jesse Helms get re-elected too many times to feel that Liddy has nailed her coffin. I think she still has it in the bag...:-(
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