Scalise Desperate, runs negative campaign ads
A little while ago I made a post showing that the Scalise campaign had no understanding about polling data. Seems like someone learned a lesson, and someone is scared.
Now we see the true colors of Steve Scalise. He now resorts to the tactics of racism in an attempt to rally the remnants of the “Duke Vote” in order to keep a firm hold to whatever power he has gained.
Notice, the clip he uses from Rev. Wright includes his statement of “God damn America for treating its citizens….”. Maybe Scalise needs to go back and study a little bit of history. It wasn’t that long ago where this country as a whole treated black people like second class citizens (and even that is being too giving to the racist attitudes our country once held). It is an unfortunate fact that there are people in Louisiana’s First Congressional District who look upon those times as “the good old days”. Are we to be surprised that someone who lived through those times would be a bit angry? (Of course, it didn’t make Rev. Wright too angry so that he wouldn’t serve his country in the military).
I am not going to sit here and say that I can even begin to understand what it must be like for a black person to have lived back then, or what it must be like today to deal with the lingering issues of racism that still exist (especially in the south). I am also not going to sit here and defend Rev. Wright for everything he has said and done. What I can do is try and understand WHY he might feel that way… something I doubt Steve Scalise or many of his supporters have ever bothered to do.
But what does make me happy is that ads like this are not run unless the candidate feels like he is in trouble. So the fact that Scalise spent money on this ad proves that Scalise is in trouble in this election, more than he would like to admit.
Scalise lacked the integrity to stand up for what he believed in in 2004 when he dropped out of that race. He continues to show that he lacks the integrity to represent this district in Congress. No wonder why he is called the “mistake by the lake”.