It is here: Political hit pieces arrive in my mailbox daily. Ugly, ugly, ugly.
For example: There is one incumbent school board member who pissed off the rich and powerful by not supporting their looting the public treasury for the creation of taxpayer-funded snob academies (“charter schools”), instead supporting using the money to benefit the less well to do. So of course, their hit pieces are arriving in my mailbox daily. Thing is, there’s some small truth to their hit pieces — she’s an arrogant jerk when dealing with idiots and has voted for a few things that seemed a good idea at the time but didn’t work out — but still, the total tool they’re running against her is just that, a tool, a looter, a complete and total know-it-all who thinks surviving sixteen years of being a student makes him qualified to lead the school district despite having never had any experience as a teacher or administrator.
Which is the problem for most of the positions we’re looking at. For example, how many of the people running for the water board have ever drilled a well or sweated a pipe? How many of them have hydrology or civil engineering degrees? Yet we have these… MORONS… who think that they’re qualified to tell a certified engineer how to do his job of maintaining the infrastructure? It is to laugh. The only thing these idiots are good at doing is taking bribes err junkets to “sales seminars” that never seem to be held in Detroit in mid-January for some reason 
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I suppose the purpose of all these hit pieces is to convince me to vote for the other guy. But I’m contrarian so I’m going to do the opposite. If someone has pissed off enough rich and powerful people for the rich and powerful to fund glossy hit pieces against them… well. Fuck the rich. Just sayin’.
- Badtux the Peeved Penguin
Well, that was as bracing as my first cup of coffee! I still have enchanting memories of Saxby Chambliss (a tool’s tool) running epic smears against Max Cleland (veteran, triple-amputee and all-around decent guy). Making the oligarchs squeal sounds like fun for the whole family. Treats for the critters, good bourbon for mama and party hats for everybody!
The thing that pisses me off even more, SoP, is that the reason the rich and powerful run these hit pieces is because often they work. Grrrr. I can think of only one election in my lifetime where they didn’t work, and that was in Louisiana, where if a politician wasn’t corrupt it was assumed he wasn’t doing his job and thus one famous governor’s race, a hit piece arrived accusing one of the candidates for governor of being a corrupt liar… at which point everybody promptly voted for said governor, LOL! Alas, even Louisiana has gone Republican now and obeys the hit piece general rule…
I like the idea of making all elected officials have “seminars” in economically depressed cities where, as an added bonus, they should hold them only during the months when the weather sucks. I’d also require that they would have to stay at a local mom and pop motel and eat the local fare in independently owned restaurants. And, finally, they would not be allowed to take their fetching “administrative assistants” along for the ride.
Now you’re just getting plain vicious, Pa Joe. I like
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