aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Monday, October 30, 2006

Radio ads

I wish you could hear the radio ads here:

Down in Georgia, Republican incumbent Mac Collins has used similar material to bludgeon his opponent, Jim Marshall. More in sorrow than in anger, the ad intones, “Jim Marshall joined his liberal leader Nancy Pelosi and voted to waste our tax dollars printing election ballots in Spanish.” It’s a complaint interrupted by the villainous voice of a Mexican bandido sneering, “Muchas gracias, Señor Jim Marshall.”

Collins’ ads are nothing compared to those from Max Burns.

In the debate tonight, Burns said that immigration was Middle Georgia’s most pressing problem. Huh? What planet are these people living on? We have the poorest county in Georgia, we have joblessness, we have education woes, and we do nothing about that.

These Republican pols are playing to nothing but fear and prejudice. I’m sad that it works. And have no clue how to combat that.