Parker Griffith is throwing lots of ads at his district, especially on Fox affiliates. I'll let you watch an ad from one of his primary opponents while you get over that surprise:
More after the jump!
Poor Griffith. At a health care town hall in Florence last August, I watched him throw red meat to the zombies out of desperation, even pandering to Teh Death Panelz™ crowd. He's been channeling his inner George Wallace ever since, but hasn't impressed the tea party crowd much. Here's what happened when he met the Rush Limbaugh of Huntsville at a town hall:*
*I kid. Dale's actually ten times more entertaining, even if he is a tool.
Ahem. So the current Left In Alabama favorite for the AL-5 Democratic nomination to run against Griffith is Taze Shepard (pronounced "TAZ" -- I predict "TAZE-MANIA"). He was gracious enough to give me a few minutes; he needed a couple of pitches to adjust to a southpaw, but then knocked balls out of the park at about the 3:00 mark. Sorry about the audio issues:
At the end right there, Shepard is referring to the time Griffith said he wouldn't support Nancy Pelosi as Speaker -- and if she didn't like it, he would provide her with a gift certificate to a mental health center. Surprise surprise, Griffith hasn't brought anything home to his district ever since -- a district literally built on federal spending, that hasn't elected a Republican since Reconstruction, and in which unions have a stronger presence than almost anywhere else in the state.
This video shows Shepard at the annual Martin Luther King banquet in Florence. I think local Dems are excited about him, don't you?
As for Artur Davis: well, that's a whole other story. But Alabama is poised to reverse the high tide of Lee Atwater's southern strategy; for progressives down here, "progress" is a relative term.
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