Republicans are stinkers.  They really are.

Democrats encourage our young people to run for Senate.  Republicans encourage theirs to intimidate, lie, and develop a criminal record.

James O’Keefe is a poor man’s Lee Atwater, but with an even bigger ego.  He is not as smart as Lee Atwater, that’s for sure.  Plus, Atwater was wise enough to keep his name out of the fray.  O’Keefe thinks he’s just one good script away from an Academy Award.

Take, for example, O’Keefe’s blunder in North Carolina.

Conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe released a new video today supposedly exposing voter fraud in North Carolina by highlighting non-citizens like Zbigniew Gorzkowski who have voted in recent elections.

The problem: Gorzkowski is an American citizen.

And he has been a citizen since the 1980’s.

But, there’s more.  O’Keefe tried to vote in North Carolina as a man who had recently died.  The man, who was 84 years old, had a 23 year old son by the same name living at his address.  O’Keefe’s people tried to vote as the deceased man and thought they had discovered voter fraud because the man’s name was on the voter roles.  They didn’t notice the Jr. after the name.

The newly widowed mother and wife responded to the news when the folks at the polls called her about the event  …

“If he were my son I would spank him.”

“I don’t like the way they just felt that they could use my husband’s name and put it out there,” the widow told TPM. “It just wasn’t right. My husband just died, and then they do that? Why didn’t they use somebody from a year ago or five years ago. It was just very insensitive.”

O’Keefe is not only a doofus.  He’s a mean bitchy little doofus.

You know, I feel kinda bad linking O’Keefe to Lee Atwater.  Atwater sought salvation and redemption at the end of his life and tried to send a warning message to others about what he’d done, including apologizing to Michael Dukakis for the  ‘naked cruelty’ of the 1988 presidential election campaign.

O’Keefe seems to prefer just just being naked.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen this morning with a cup of coffee and Bev.