Is Jerry getting desperate or is he just naturally blood thirsty? He's now running a new attack ad that goes along these line (sorry it's not online anywhere that I know of yet)
Tearful Beautiful Blond White Woman discussing the man who murdered her husband. Prominently noted is the fact that the guy was in the US illegally. Then the zinger -- Tim Kaine called for a moratorium on the death penalty. Then Tearful Beautiful Blond White Woman laments that Tim Kaine won't let us murder her husband's murders and that's soooo offensive to her.
Now not to be insensitive to her loss but come on now.
Some background on the real life case:
Federal Judge Stays Jan. 7 Execution of Va. Inmate
Edward N. Bell, a laborer who is one of 23 inmates on Virginia's death row, was scheduled to be executed Jan. 7. But in U.S. District Court in Roanoke last week, Judge James P. Jones issued a stay to allow Bell to proceed with the full appeals process in federal court. Bell has exhausted his appeals in the state courts.
One of Bell's two defense attorneys, Jonathan P. Sheldon, said yesterday that it was "pernicious" that the state attorney general's office had requested that a state judge in Winchester set an execution date before Bell had fully explored his federal appeals.
Sheldon, one of Bell's new attorneys, who has a little less than a year to file his federal appeal, said Bell's conviction and punishment are wrong. The attorney said Winchester prosecutors suppressed evidence favorable to Bell and presented false evidence during his trial.
He said he plans to bring forward for the first time a man who witnessed the shooting and told police the next day that the killer was a white man. Bell is black.
Sheldon also said Bell is ineligible for the death penalty because he is mentally retarded.
Whether or not you support the death penalty, I think most everyone on Dailykos can agree that we should do our utmost to ensure that we do not execute the wrong guy and I think most of us would agree that it's barbaric to execute the mentally disabled. Also what the f*ck does the fact that Edward N. Bell was here illegally have to do with the death penalty? Is Kilgore slyly trying to hint that illegals deserve death? Oh how so Willie Horton!!!!
Now Tim Kaine and I share a faith, one that holds that the death penalty is barbaric and unChristian. Kaine has been very, very forthright about his religious opposition to the death penalty but at the same time pledging to uphold all the laws of the state of Virginia and to not hold up dealth penalty cases without extraordinary circumstances.
This ad has left me enraged. Murder is NOT the answer. Scaring voters with ugly stories of illegal aliens is NOT the answer. I hope and pray that my fellow Virginians reject the ugliness that this ad encourages. We need to move Virginia Forward, not back to 19th century nativism and racism.