Shadegg Begins Refering to Himself in Third-Person

It’s never a good sign when politicians begin referring to themselves in the third-person. Everyone remembers Dole taking about Dole. It’s creepy, and sure sign that a politician is beginning to decompensate psychologically: perhaps seeing himself from a historical perspective as a noble figure in a classical tragedy.

So it should be of no little concern that John Shadegg began referring to himself this way when talking about the fund-raising improprieties that his Democratic opponent Bob Lord caught him in recently. “What the Democrats want out of this is a news story. They want to muddy this up. They want to make Shadegg look bad.”

Well, when Shadegg has major donors, who are barred by law from giving Shadegg’s campaign any more money, give to Shadegg’s PAC instead, and then Shadegg’s PAC passes the funds over to Shadegg’s own campaign, Democrats don’t really have to try terribly hard to make Shadegg look bad.

Though Shadegg initially claimed that Shadegg did nothing wrong, Shadegg recently decided to give the questioned funds back to Shadegg’s PAC. The FEC is investigating the Democratic Party’s complaint against Shadegg.

Shadegg was last seen wandering around mumbling to Shadegg about "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune," sighing the name Ophelia over and over, and talking to a human skull Shadegg carries around with Shadegg.