Jerry Kilgore, the reclusive republican canidate for the virginia gov. office, has been bringing out the worst in me.
I have a disgust for the man. He pitches some of the strongest rightwing economic crud ever. Grover Norquist has had as much to do with this creep's intellectual development as he has with Rove's, if not more.
He's a weasel about everything in public, but pro-life in all his actions.
He comes from a far-rural county, off the I-81 corridor, and his mother runs the entire elections system in the area.
Attorney general elections in Virginia tend to be a case of whoever throws their hat in the ring, but he was the only Republican elected to high office last go-round, so now, dispite his weirdass speach impediment and hatred of humanity, he has a shot at being govenor.
The first thing he did was hire the people behind the swift-boat campaign, and send a weird, 7page letter to the press, pretending that it was a memo from his opponent (tim kaine), where kaine made fun of the accents of rural virginians. At the bottom was a simple disclaimer saying he'd sent it.
---a little dart sent to diffuse criticism of his voice, i guess.
Kilgore has no ideas, hates the rednecks around him as much as he hates more urban people, and will be worse than useless economicaly and environmentaly in office.
the thing about the Kilgore campaign: as a straight man, it's made me discover the evils of gay-baiting.
limp-wristed, useless, single at a late age, a big fish from a tiny pond, with his weird voice and mother issues-
Elections are a game of pictionary, and whoever draws the best cartoon wins. I've got no clue if Jerry Kilgore is gay or not, but it never stopped any republican from calling John Kerry "french".
See, the problem with Jerry Kilgore, in with all this horrible P.R. drive, marketed, managed crap that the electoral process has turned into, is- Kilgore is a target like the broad side of a barn.
What kind of shot would you and your immortal soul take?