Because Democrat Bill Haas doesn’t seem to.
He’s airing an ad on local radio station KTRS. In the ad he attacks Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Last I checked his opponent was Congressman Todd Aiken.
He hits Palin on the Bridge to Nowhere. He uses a line reminiscent of the one that has been used on Rudy Giuliani. He says that “a noun, a verb and the lie about the bridge”.
If you want to listen to the ad go here.
Airing an ad like this makes me think two things:
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What a dumb thing to do in the deep red second congressional district of Missouri. This ad certainly won’t help someone who has to be trailing by big numbers.
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I would have to think that Haas knows that he is a long shot. Running an ad like this therefore seems designed to do one thing: Help Barack Obama. If that is the case, wouldn’t this ad violate campaign finance laws?
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Bill Haas is a kook
Bill S (Diary) Friday, September 19th at 5:32PM EST (link)Nothing he says or does would surprise anyone in St. Louis (as I suspect you already knew).
“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins
I will give Haas one thing
Brian Simpson (Diary) Friday, September 19th at 10:55PM EST (link)At least he was willing to run. We can’t even get someone to run against Lacy Clay in MO-01.
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itrytobenice (Diary) Saturday, September 20th at 12:23AM EST (link)Nobody wants to pound their money and time down a rathole. And that place is wasted.
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Let’s eat Grandma.
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tsquare (Diary) Saturday, September 20th at 1:33AM EST (link)Redistricting… that’s how we will get Lacy out. The City will continue to lose population… and both Lacy and Carnihan will fight over the heavy Democratic areas… rather than extend further in the GOP suburbs and ex-burbs.
And that ASSUMES that MO doesn’t lose another house seat. If we do Lacy is toast.
GOP strength is in St. Charles County, Springfield and ‘out-state’ Lacy and Carnihan can’t go into any of those areas w/o a lot of risk.