It's getting ugly here in Kansas.
The fight to occupy the open seat in KS-04 is on and the Democratic candidate is a terrific young state representative named Raj Goyle. His Republican opponent is Mike Pompeo, who is the current Republican National Committeeman for Kansas.
DCCC features this race in their red to blue campaign. KS-04 was represented for many years by Dan Glickman, a Democrat, and Goyle has a very large war chest and an excellent ad campaign. His first general election ad, in fact, takes on Fred Phelps.
The Pompeo campaign, rather than debate the issues, has turned to racism in their desperation to win this seat.
The Goyle campaign has discovered that the Pompeo campaign had this on their twitter feed yesterday:
mikepompeo: Here's a good read about the Team Pompeo campaign:
http://bit.ly/... about 8 hours ago via TweetDeck
Where does this link take you? To a 'good read' by a Pompeo supporter that is little more than a bigoted rant:
Since the 2008 election of the evil muslim communist USURPER, barack hussein obama, political candidate "BIRTH CERTIFICATE & RELIGION" information is now a vital part of the vetting/nomination/election process for any and all American citizens seeking political office.
Just like his evil muslim communist USURPER comrad, barack hussein obama, This goyle character is just another "turban topper" we don't need in congress or any political office that deals with the U.S. Constitution, Christianity and the United States of America!!!
Electing Mike Pompeo, a West Point graduate and United States military veteran for the 2010 U.S. Congress, is a great beginning for the restoration of our country's values and morales. Restoring Christianity, the U.S. Constitution and the United States of America to our American way of life is a must if we are to survive as a free nation under God!
I don't consider this a 'good read' - I'm sickened as a Kansan to see this kind of racist garbage dragging down our political process. I'll be even more sickened if it works. I'm volunteering for Goyle in my county and this trash makes me even more determined to work my ass off between now and November. All Kansans are not racists. How dare the Pompeo campaign attempt to portray us as such.
UPDATE: The Act Blue page for Goyle is here
2nd UPDATE: Pompeo campaign has taken down the tweet, claiming it was a 'cut and paste error'. Corrected tweet has also been taken down. Looks like a classic dog whistle...