Arizona Rorschach Test
A friend of mine, Sheila Healy, is the Executive Director of the Arizona Democratic Party. Sheila is having way too much fun. Lookie here —
And then they’ve had this little bit of unintentional humor on a clearly not-funny subject:
Ann Kirkpatrick is running against John McCain and the race appears to be a dead heat.
So the Arizona Republican Party decides to take it to the limit. They came out with a Wanted posted of Ann Kirkpatrick. Here ya go —-
See those bullet holes around the edge of her picture? You know, in the same state where Gabby Giffords was shot.
No, you do not. You do NOT see those bullet holes. No, sireee. No bullet holes. Close your damn eyes and you cannot see them. See?
Arizona Republican Party spokesperson Matt Specht explains it to you:
Specht in a telephone interview Friday said that round splotches on the poster Kirkpatrick labeled as bullet holes were intended at conveying a weathered image of the Old West.
“They could be just holes, whether it was something that was nailed to a tree or wall,” he said.
Well, there ya go.
The Kirkpatrick campaign has a link to the template the GOP used for the poster and it is described as “old and dirty paper with bullet holes.”
What bullet holes? There’s no bullet holes. Here’s the poster on the Arizona GOP website.
I thought they were surveyor’s marks.
Honestly why does every GOP official these days sound like some bratty kid you are in charge of coming up with the most lame excuses for everything that happens? I mean you wouldn’t expect a moron to believe what they are saying and they do it with a straight face.
1You need to live here to under stand this. The smear and fear party is hard at it. There is all ready a Taco truck on every corner. Most of us like it that way. Next Mc Cane will tell you Ann has co-ttys. But Dtumpf is his man. He is trying to back away. But it is his own words. As Bugs would say What a Mooron.
2If I go to the Arizona GOP site, will I start getting e-mails from them?
3Arizona has some people that make Louie Gohmert look sane. And he’s so far around the bend that he meets himself coming.
4Well, well! The GOPers playing not just dirty but dirty stupid. I know Kirkpatrick. Had a feeling some time ago that she would try for the Senate. She may have picked a good time. McCain has totally lost his juice, all the whiz-bang of his earlier years. They’re running neck and neck right now. Vote Kirkpatrick. Once she’s in the Senate she can get right to work whereas McCain will waste too damn much time trying to explain why he didn’t ditch Trump.
5God I wish this were true. http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/38893-obama-pays-mexico-5-billion-dollars-to-keep-trump
6How much to take McCain with him?
The propaganda the Rs put out always make me support the Democrat. Obamacare? Hillary? The deal with Iran? “Loyal Democrat?” Let’s GO!
AZ Rs do make Looney Louie look reasonable.
7@maggie: Dirty stupid seems to be the GOP standard these days. I hope it backfires for them in more than Arizona. And I wish that Arizona would send some of those taco trucks to Maryland. We are in sore need of them.
8“dirty stupid” is about to become a whole lot dirtier with Donnie’s latest hire, David Bossie. Expect a great piece from either daChipster or Primo to fill us in on the details of that one.
9At least we strangers in town know where to find the local republicans, at the very bottom of wherever.
10For decades now the GOP’s only real issues have been hate and fear, directed towards people who are different from their fantasy white male Christian norm.
That strategy worked well for a long time, but it’s getting frayed at the edges as the electorate changes. Instead of changing with it we can expect the GOP to double-down. As they get more and more frantic, their approach is going to get way stupider. That how extremism works.
11LynnN: Bullseye. The way I see it, when someone accepts the kind of hatred and vitriol that Trumpettes espouse as normal, they know there’s no defending it. The idea that it even needs defending is probably offensive to them. So the only option left to them is more aggression. I used to wonder how the German people let Hitler’s bunch gain power. I think we’re seeing it demonstrated in real time.
12The Arizona Republican Party did this poster? Even if one of their faithful did it and they’re just giving it a showcase, still… what a rank amateur piece of work. There should be a disclaimer: No graphic designer’s career was harmed in the making of this poster.
Bad. Sad.
13Last time it was a bulls-eye and Gabby Gifford and many other fine people were killed and injured. This time it’s a Wanted Poster With Bullet Holes. This should serve as enough justification to give Ann round the clock police protection. In any sane world. Yeah, I know. I’m not holding my breath.
14that the taco truck thing seems to be the worst this fellow could come up with is pretty telling in itself.
15What is “my culture is a dominant one” supposed to mean?
For years we’ve known that there’s got to be something wrong with you if you are a Repug. It’s not just a different political philosophy, it’s a hateful, ignorant fear-mongering state of mind.
16There is nothing they won’t do, no depths to which they won’t go to further their own cause which is control of the country, the financial system and the military. They simply have to be stopped and their “party” dismantled.
I find that poster disturbing. After trumps gun happy fans threatening Hillary, I would take that poster as a threat and hope the FBI will take action.
17I’m sure we can all imagine the whining, crying, and overall childish carrying on that would result if such a poster was created with McCain’s face on it. Buncha big babies.
18How do you get these anti-taco trucks to turn themselves completely around? Give all the taco trucks liquor licenses!
19Two words: Surveyors’ Marks.
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