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Boomer with Attitude / News Renee Elmers' mosque-scented run for Congress
Posted By John Grooms on Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:24 PM
We’ve seen some oddball campaigns this season, mostly from Tea Party-backed candidates, but until now, most of them at least emphasize relevant issues. Not anymore. Not in North Carolina’s 2nd District. Get ready for Renee Elmers.
Locally, we had Tim D’Annunzio’s machinegun trainwreck of a campaign, complete with talk of saving the world from evil, dismantling the government, and a 1000-mile-high pyramid in Greenland. Nationally, there was the guy in Alabama whose ads featured George Washington urging him to overthrow the government; Sharron Angle in Nevada, who thinks people that can’t afford health care should barter for it, using chickens as payment; and Christine O’Donnell in Delaware, who wants to bring back the failures of abstinence-only sex education. But at least those candidates, no matter how whacked out you may think they are, campaigned, or are still campaigning, on actual issues that could conceivably impact their constituents. Not so for Tea Party Republican candidate Renee Elmers, running in the Triangle for the seat held by Rep. Bob Etheridge.
Elmers’ first broadcast ad, right out of the gate, isn’t about health care, or taxes, or earmarks, or, in fact, about anything that’s relevant to North Carolinians’ day-to-day life. Elmers began her campaign against Etheridge with a xenophobic, factually incorrect, not to mention dumb-as-a-rock ignorant, commercial about the Islamic center scheduled to be built a couple of blocks from the site of the Twin Towers attacks — or, as Elmers likes to call it, the victory mosque at Ground Zero. Tells you all you need to know about Elmers’ view of the world, as well as her party’s descent into sheer paranoia and repugnant fear mongering. Check out her ad below.
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