You may remember in February when “fit fun classy guy” Rep. Chris Lee (R-Stupid) resigned from Congress after being caught trolling Craigslist for dates. That set up a special election to fill the seat, now scheduled for May 24 — two weeks from today.
Republican county chairs picked Assemblywoman Jane Corwin as their candidate, while Democrats picked an obscure county official, Kathy Hochul. This is a strong Republican district in western New York and Corwin, who also has the crucial endorsement of the state’s Conservative Party, should be running away with this.
Alas, there is the Crazy Jack Davis, a once-upon-a-time Republican who, in 2004, 2006 and 2008, ran for the NY-26 seat as a Democrat. Crazy Jack has now managed to get himself on the May 24 ballot as a “Tea Party” candidate. Of course, he’s not in any way representative of the Tea Party movement, and is supported by no Tea Party organizations, but nevertheless — funny how these coincidences happen — Davis has the “Tea Party” ballot line.
Crazy Jack Davis is a millionaire protectionist. As Sam Foster pointed out at Red State, “His signature issue, his raison d’etre has to do with our nation’s trade imbalance… He wants to cancel all free trade agreements in favor of something he calls ‘balanced trade.’ ” Which is utter nonsense, of course. (How is it that some people — Donald Trump is another — become millionaires without understanding basic economics?) “Balanced trade” is just a variation of economic nationalism which, in turn, is a straight road to the planned economy. But if you don’t yet understand why free trade is better policy than protectionism, there’s no point in my lecturing at this point: You’re on the wrong blog, pal.
Of far more immediate political relevance is the fact that a substantial number of NY-26 residents appear to be buying the Smoot-Hawley snake oil that Crazy Jack is selling. One recent poll showed Davis playing the “spoiler” role in the special election by pulling independent voters away from the conservative Republican, Jane Corwin. This has enabled the Democrat to eke out a lead:
At the same time we found and killed Osama bin Laden based partly on intel gotten from enhanced interrogations (http://youtu.be/QDdSKaUG0RM) from secret European sites and from interrogations at Gitmo [a place Obama wanted to shut down], our number one law enforcement person is going ahead with prosecuting CIA personnel (http://youtu.be/4HeR2_DUugk) and lawyers who wrote legal briefs saying water-boarding (http://youtu.be/hyJ6VPqra6g) was legal. What a rotten administration.
A Muslim woman says she was embarrassed when given a difficult choice at Caesars Atlantic City last weekend: take off the traditional face covering that only shows her eyes or leave the casino.
Why would she be embarrassed? Nobody can even see her!
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Was she there for gambling? That’s against Shari’a. Was she there for drinks? That’s against Shari’a too. Was she there for delicious and cheap but non-halal food? Allah don’t like that either. Was she there alone and un-accompanied by a male relative? That’s against Shari’a and she is obviously a wicked whore who must be stoned until dead, according to the religion of peace.
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She was only there for one reason………..to be booted out so her and C.A.I.R. can file “another lawsuit” against the laws of the land and break down our Constitution. That is what all this is about! Problem is that she has the left wing liberal moonbats helping her along because they want the country to fall also.