Every other day, there is a story that comes out about our Gubernatorial candidates that makes you wonder if we’re not all having some elaborate practical joke played on us, like, at any minute, some sane candidates are going to come out and be all like, “Just kidding, folks. Vote for us.”
But this is the strangest.
Yesterday, JR linked to a story in which Zach Wamp was, of course, angry about a mailer.
“They painted up my face, created a beard, used all this Middle Eastern looking imagery, and it’s awful,” he said in an interview with The Associated Press. “What kind of gutter politics is that?”
Asked Saturday what part of the mailer he considers to be Middle Eastern, Wamp didn’t cite anything specific.
“All of that, just the whole – I don’t know, I think it’s just ugly,” he said. “It’s like they painted you up to make you look like you’re from a foreign country.”
Today, JR shows us the mailer.
All I can say is “WTF?!” In which foreign country are the walls made of peanut brittle?! Certainly not any place in the Middle East. That peanut brittle would start to soften in the heat and your whole building would be in danger of collapse.
This is literally the strangest thing to happen in the campaign, that Wamp thinks that flyer makes him look Middle Eastern. It is even stranger than him randomly shouting “I love you” at the debate.
I’m not that excited about Haslam being governor, but if Republicans in this state look at their three choices and don’t see that two of them are barely holding it together, I’m going to be very frightened.
Filed under: Politics and Other Nonsense, The Conservative Soap Opera, The State of Tennessee
Oh.
My.
God.
That is abso fucking hilarious. Sad, really, that the TNDP couldn’t find a better candidate than McWherter and take advantage of the insane clown parade the TNGOP has given us. Talk about your missed opportunities.’
I’m just having a good time watching all of the Republicans race each other to the outer limits of the fringe. Someone — I think it was GoldnI — asked, what do the moderate Republicans think of all this? The Republicans in this state who aren’t completely batshit insane? Aren’t they sorta horrified? I do think it’s really strange that they’re all keeping silent. No grownups in this group, I guess.
It just must be really embarrassing to be a Tennessee Republican right now.
Well, I mean, sure they’re making him look middle eastern. That’s the correct phrase for someone with a heavy 5-o’clock shadow, isn’t it? Like people were all the time saying, “that Richard Nixon, he looks so middle eastern.” I remember that. And the guy on Miami Vice, too.
Is that supposed to be bacon behind him? I assume it’s some pork reference.
I was just about to remark on the 5 o’clock shadow vs. “created a beard.”
Dude, that God you believe is the Center of the Universe? He’s the one who created you to have a 5 o’clock shadow. You need to get after Him for being in cahoots with Bill Haslam, then.
~ shaking head
I wonder if Wamp didn’t realize that people were actually going to be able to see the mailer or what? Did he think he could just say that he was portrayed as a Middle Easterner and no one would know better?
It’s very strange. Hilarious, but strange.
B, I think you’re missing Wamp’s thought processes altogether. He has convinced himself these days that sinister = middle eastern. So someone trying to make him look sinister (which the mailer unquestionably does try to do) is trying to make him look middle eastern by definition. I think he honestly believes this, and is sure that everyone has this same equation/association with sinister. Which I guess is kind of cute, because I’m betting that a few months ago he would have had a mental equation of sinister = Hispanic instead.
Its not an elaborate practical joke. It’s performance art.
NM, I have been thinking about what you said here all day and I have come to the conclusion that you are right and that said insight is… I don’t know. Mind-blowing in its correctness.
Well, it’s interesting to me that Wamp can’t keep more than one Evil Other in his head at the same time.