Terrifying GOP Hypocrisy for Halloween

By Michael Bryan

For Halloween this year, my high-propensity voter wife, Lauren, got a creepy mailer about ‘scary’ Congressman Ron Barber. You might think that some ultra-left wing group had sent this message because the ‘scary’ thing noted about Barber was his alleged vote “for” the “terrifying Ryan budget”.

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But you would be wrong. This electoral trick was courtesy of the Arizona Republican Party.

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Now why would the AZGOP want to warn solid Democratic voters like my wife that Ron Barber voted for the Ryan budget? Is it because they opposed the Ryan budget? Not that I noticed. Could it be because they want Democrat to support their candidate Martha McSally, who simply refuses to say clearly whether she would have supported the Ryan budget, but almost certainly would have? They don’t say that.

Rather, they ask my wife to “Vote Against Ron Barber.” on election day. How can my wife do that, given that she sure as hell is not voting for Martha McSally? Well, stay home and don’t vote, of course. I guess they didn’t chase the early ballots very carefully, as we long ago voted early by mail and are on the PEVL.

Regardless of it’s political malpractice level of ineptness, this mailer is a blatant example of voter demotivation and bone-deep political hypocrisy. If you can’t get Democrats to vote for your terrible candidate, get them to be so disgusted with the Democrat that they stay home rather than vote. This mailer would be an excellent teaching tool for a Voter Suppression 101 case study on how to do it poorly.

Well, at least now the AZGOP is on record as saying the Ryan budget is “terrifying” and “bone-chilling” and that its effect would have been “hair-raising for Arizona.” That should be useful to any Arizona Democratic candidate worth the name in future debates. “Sir or Madame, do you agree with the AZ GOP [hold up the mailer] that the Ryan budget was terrifying for Arizona in that it would have cut veterans pensions, put food assistance to millions of Americans on the chopping block, jeopardized Medicare and Social Security benefits, and denied unemployment benefits for those who needed it most? Would you support those policies in future budgets?”

Thanks for denigrating your own party’ policies on the record AZGOP! I suppose that’s a Halloween treat.

 

2 thoughts on “Terrifying GOP Hypocrisy for Halloween”

  1. I think they’ve run out of ideas and are letting the obnoxious “White Person Appreciation Day” fratboy College Republican crowd run things at this stage.

    This is just the kind of rw echo-chamber kind of ‘heh heh all those low-information low-IQ libtards are so gullible heh heh’ kind of troll they’d consider funny and oh so true, because everybody THEY talk to thinks so.

    Also, they’re running out ways to spend that tsunami of cash flowing into the race.

    Note: I think it would be an illuminating thing for some enterprising reporter to look into where all that dark money is going to, rather than coming from.

    This sure looks like a convenient way to launder hundreds of millions in cash…

    • “This sure looks like a convenient way to launder hundreds of millions in cash…”

      Uh-oh! So now the Republican Party is not only the Party of evil partisans awash in dark money who would sell your children into slavery, they are also actual criminals who are laundering money for drug cartels and Murder, inc.? And you Democrats have the gall to accuse Republicans of putting forth ridiculous conspiracy theories about Democrats…

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