Maybe you thought Jim Talent's unrelenting stream of attacks against Claire McCaskill's family was the bottom of the Republican barrel. Or maybe you were appalled at the race-baiting ads being used against Harold Ford in Tennessee.
But if you want to know the Republicans in full wingnut bloom, you need look no further than the campaign of Paul R. Nelson for Wisconsin's third district.
How about an ad that features gay marriage, terror attacks, homosexuals in the boy scouts, and illegal aliens burning an American flag all in one thirty second spot? It's Republican fear and smearaganza, brought to you by the Nelson campaign
Updated to include: info on the new, and utterly insane Nelson ad.
If that previous ad wasn't enough to show you the real nature of Paul Nelson, you might try
the commercial in which he uses the 9/11 attacks -- including detailed, slow motion videos of the planes hitting the twin towers -- accompanied by a voice over that says a Democratic congressman wants it to happen again.
You might also visit his web site in which he keeps the Republican fight against France going strong with a whole page of attacks on all things French, and adding a comment about the Frenchiness of Democrats. His page includes multiple quotes from luminaries like Roy Blunt, Dennis Miller, and Marge Simpson. That's right, Paul Nelson is depending on blue-haired cartoon characters for his foreign policy. (I always did wonder where Republicans got their silly ideas.)
Paul R Nelson is Mr. Exploitation, Mr. Fear, and Mr. Xenophobic racist. Honestly, his ads are so extreme, I wouldn't have believed they were real if they weren't linked from the candidate's own site. Heck, I wouldn't have believed this candidate was real if there weren't a long train of ranting letters to the editor and mud left in his wake.
In other words, he's the poster boy for Republicans in 2006.
UPDATE: Nelson's newest ad includes accustations that:
- Ron Kind didn't give the troops the needed support by not voting for "bunker buster" nukes.
- Kind voted to study the sex lives of Vietnamese prostitutes instead of working to cure cancer.
- That Kind "spent your money studying masturbation" instead of heart disease.
- Ron kind spent your tax dollars to get teenagers to watch pornographic movies with probes wired to their genitalia.
This is how Republicans run for office these days.