Osama Mulvaney
What’s the difference between Osama bin Laden, the terrorist, and Mick Mulvaney, the hard-charging conservative challenging entrenched incumbent Rep. John Spratt (D-S.C.)? Not much, according to Spratt’s spiel. This from a profile of the two candidates in Columbia’s Free-Times:
“If Osama bin Laden ran in this district as a Republican, he would get 38 to 40 percent of the vote in any election year,” says Wayne Wingate, Spratt’s communications director, as he walks alongside the congressman at the festival. “This is a very Republican district. So you’ve got that plus this tea party angst against any incumbent in the world right now.”
Thinking about his past opposition, the congressman says they were all better candidates than Mulvaney, but that isn’t what’s going to matter. “He’s riding, as I like to say, the groundswell on the crest of a long wave,” Spratt says, one eye closed tight in the bright sun. “It’s not something he’s necessarily generating, but he’s mounting it and riding it — hopefully [for him] to victory — but we’ll see.”
So according to Spratt, the only reason any of the brain dead folks down in South Carolina would vote for Mulvaney is because of the R next to his name. Not because Spratt has supported every big government boondoggle to come out of Washington (think stimulus, cap-and-trade, healthcare) and continues to play lapdog to the Obama Administration’s every whim, but simply because Mulvaney is a Republican.
Forget weighing the issues, or anything else that takes a modicum of intelligence; apparently, Spratt doesn’t think S.C. voters are up to the task of higher thought, just angst-ridden zombies surfing a wave of panic.
Nice.
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