Wednesday, April 12th, 2006...6:41 am
Jon Kyl: Desperate
Jon Kyl’s campaign is criticizing Jim Pederson’s campaign as desperate. Yes, Pederson is a desperate man who will turn over any rock, stoop to any low, leave no moral code unbroken to run for the United States Senate. His latest political attrocity is just too hideous to name. Hide the children, please.
Pederson is…
Pederson is…
Yes, I know. This is a horrible thing that Pederson is doing. It makes me so ashamed to be one of his supporters. Please, please, Jim, end the horror before you have sulllied our unspolied politics in Arizona.
I’m sorry, I don’t know what came over me there. Kyl’s campaign is criticizing Pederson for, uh, campaigning. I know, Pederson is just supposed to do his job and be merely a name on the ballot and allow Kyl to be reelected with little opposition. That sort of thing works so well in Belarus, after all.
What seems desperate to me is Kyl’s spokesman going after Pederson merely for running ads.
Like Janet Napolitano, Kyl has a solid re-elect number right now. Unlike Napolitano, Kyl has dangerously low approval ratings. This indicates that he could be beaten if people know who his opponent is. The last thing they want is for anyone to know that someone is running against their guy.
The ads are standard “let’s introduce you to the candidate” fare. No attacks, and few issues. They remind me of, well, the ads that Jon Kyl himself ran before the primary in 1994. Those were on fairly early too. Interestingly, you could watch those ads and never know that Kyl had served a day in congress (or that his pre-congressional career was as a lobbyist). You’d just think he was some guy who’s radiator blew on I-10 one day.
Maybe Kyl’s people just think he is just so wonderful and so deserving that no one should run against him. That is a heck of an attitude for his campaign to have in a democracy.
4 Comments
April 12th, 2006 at 2:55 pm
well, since no one else is commenting on this post, i will.
Why the picture of Guy Smiley? Deadpan Kyl is the opposite of the game show host Muppet.
I don’t get it.
April 12th, 2006 at 4:46 pm
The hair, the face, that phony wide smile…when I first saw him all those many years ago, Guy Smiley is who I thought of.
April 12th, 2006 at 5:15 pm
I saw both the Pederson adds. Of course he has every right to run ads but I was wondering why he does not identify his party? Is he ashamed to state clearly that he is a Democrat? The former State Party Chair? Talk about someone whose radiator blew out on I-10.
April 12th, 2006 at 8:30 pm
They are scared. Scared that people will realize that they have an option beyond reelecting party-line Kyl who just seems to follow his marching orders from an extremely unpopular White House.
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