Jerry Kilgore has made gaffe after gaffe in his race against Lt. Governor Tim Kaine, and now it’s been noticed. In today’s Washington Post, Mike Shear has an article (“From Kilgore, Three Strikes but No Out“) about the campaign’s embarrassing series of high-profile errors:
Three times, Republican gubernatorial candidate Jerry W. Kilgore or his proxies have launched breathless attacks against Democrat Timothy M. Kaine on transportation.
And three times, those attacks have fallen flat, largely because the facts weren’t there to back them up.
But in the news business, we call these kinds of potential stories “too good to check,” because once you scratch the surface, there’s less there than meets the eye.
Shear examines all three, and explains why each of them were, at worst, lies and, at best, Jerry Kilgore simply not understanding how state government works.
This is decidedly not how the Kilgore campaign wanted the race to be going one month out. Kilgore’s got to make something stick, and it’s not looking like he’ll be able to.
Big daWg, you wrote:
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D’oh. Thanks. :)
I’ve made that mistake myself. Something about both names starting with the same letter makes it very easy to do.
Meanwhile, this is just really sad for the politics of fear, greed, and ignorance. I mean, if you actually have to stand up and be counted for ideas, integrity, and presence, it could spell the end of radical right-wing politics as we know them.
the real fear and ignorance are being caused by the liberals who are calling Jerry Kilgore a homosexual at every turn, just because he has a really high voice and a lisp. This is outrageous.
The fact that he’s gay doesn’t bother me near as much as the fact that he is sorta — stupid. I mean if he doesn’t understand how government works….what the hell is he doing?