July 13, 2006

Campaign Oddities

Dennis York found an odd reference to Hannibal in Dan Aude's press release announcing his run for the 88th Assembly District seat:

When asked about the campaign he said, “ like Hannibal in the second Punic war with the Roman Empire, he too was out numbered in resources, but set a standard in battle tactics and strategy at Cannae” Aude was out spent by his incumbent opponent in 2004 by a ratio of 3 to 1.

“ This will be our battle cry for leadership in the 88th Assembly District in 2006, AUDE FOR 88 CANNAE!”

Aude will be wasting all his time telling his supporters how to pronounce "Cannae."

Next, we have Robert Gerald Lorge, the Republican the state party doesn't want to admit is running against Sen. Herb Kohl. Jessica McBride is the only one who's giving him any credence:

And he's at least in the ring. Conervatives have had a lot of Don Quijote pretenders, but he's the real thing. Tilting at windmills, yes, but he makes more sense on the issues than Herb Kohl does.

A candidate is strange when they put their entire resume on their campaign website. I mean the whole thing including:

Class President, St. Mary's Catholic Grade School 1973

I'm sure he has an edge on Kohl there.

Then there's the Lorge RV or the "Lorgemobile" in these parts.

I checked out the Libertarian Party candidate Dave Redick, and discovered he's almost as wacked out as Kevin Barrett. From his website I "learned:"

Bush’s invasion and occupation of Afghanistan was primarily to get access to build an oil pipeline from Uzbekistan to a warm water port near Karachi, Pakistan (the same reason the Russians invaded in the 1980’s). This project had been delayed for many years but was suddenly approved in Dec-01.

And to think I had been fooled into thinking it had something to do with the Taliban in kahoots with Osama bin Laden.

It looks like I'll be writing in Fred.

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