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Former Santorum staffer and Congressional candidate Matt Shaner wants that Barack Osamabama guy to know that he is not bitter:
At Marc Ambinder, check out the first GOP anti-Obama mailing to seize upon the "bitter" comments. It’s a flyer from Matt Shaner, who is running in a Congressional primary to represent Pennsylvania’s 5th district. The text:
He called us a "bitter" people.
He criticized us for "clinging" to religion.
He criticized us for "clinging" to guns.Now it’s time to send a message to Barack Obama.
"I’m a God-fearing, chuch-going, NRA member. And I’m proud of it." – Matt Shaner, Republican for Congress
The strategist behind the ad is John Brabender, whose firm also managed media for Rick Santorum, Rudy Giuliani, and even GOP turncoat Lincoln Chafee. Brabender is godfather to one of Santorum’s children. His practice is proof that "moderate" Republicans are in thrall to the same socially conservative establishment figures as their religious right brethren. Now we’re seeing how that establishment plans to go after the leading Democrat.
Well that is certainly quite the roster of winners that Brabender has managed. Not too surprising that he took on another model of the modern morality party:
U.S. House Hopeful Matt Shaner Drinking Before Car Crash
Republican Matt Shaner, who announced this week that he will seek to replace the retiring U.S. Rep. John Peterson, said in an interview Thursday he made a big mistake when he left the accident site without speaking to police.No one was injured in the single-vehicle accident Jan. 19, 2007, in Patton Township. But Shaner was fined more than $500 after pleading guilty to running a stop sign, failing to report an accident and accidents involving damage to an unattended vehicle or property.
Asked if he thought he was drunk at the time he ran off the road, Shaner told The Associated Press: ‘‘I had too much alcohol to be driving. I may have been.’‘
‘‘I was in a condition where I shouldn’t have been driving my car, and I handled the situation very poorly afterward,’‘ he said. ‘‘It was probably the biggest mistake of my life.’‘
Probably not too proud of driving drunk and then hauling ass… which is probably why it’s not on the mailer. Good call on that one.
And since he has a deep personal relationship with the Santorums, perhaps Brabender should show Shaner a picture of what a bitter Pennsylvania family looks like.
They’re also sad, grim, resigned, and what appears to be potentially psychotic.
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That Santorum picture is touching. I imagine it’s what they looked like when the dead fetus started turning green.
OT, but check out Hillary hating on MoveOn.
what an asshole.
Now we know what little Louisa May Santorum was really thinking in that picture:
“Please, God, don’t let daddy follow through with his plan to marry me off to that old man in Texas with all the wives…”
If I knew that half of my DNA came from man-on-dog, I might be pretty upset, too.
I look at the kids in that picture and see years and years of therapy to come.
Insert joke about ruining ladies’ undergarments here.
I’m sorry but I can’t stop laughing at that picture. I agree w/Dennis@5, looks all rosy now but in a few years….
“I was in a condition where I shouldn’t have been driving my car, and I handled the situation very poorly afterward,’‘ he said. ‘‘It was probably the biggest mistake of my life.”
What a dick. I had a brother who told me tales of his drunken escapades, eerily similar to this. We said goodbye to him recently.
In the past nine months alone, this county has seen the deaths of four 20-somethings in a single drunken driving disaster, three more in a stupid-filled-text-message-cell-phone-hit-the-Cal-Trans-barrier horror-fest, not to mention the past week in which we witnessed the deaths of four other people and the hospitalization of three more, all due to impaired or drunken driving.
Over and fucking over again.
I could go on, but my guess is that most of you took driver’s ed in the years where “Blood on the highway” was featured.
Holy shit, Republicans are some of the thinnest-skinned whiniest cry-babies I’ve ever seen.
I don’t understand what moved Santorum and his wife to have so many episodes of unprotected sex, especially after their first child.
At least Shaner didn’t have a hooker in his lap. As always, it is irresponsible not to speculate.
HAHAHAHAHAHAH….
Oh man, Seeñor Bogg, that was fucking hilarious.
I fear that this whole “bittergate” thing will cost Obama the rural, God-fearin’, gun toten’, ignorant bigot vote, which he, you know, had in his pocket.
That picture cracks me up every time. And yeah, too bad Obama lost the bigot vote. And the votes of every single Repub that were just dying to vote for him.
Just a brief correction, the Santorums are now a bitter _Virginia_ family, one of many reasons that Ricky lost that last election. It was fun voting him out. Hopefully Shaner will have a similar electoral outcome.
I live just outside the district Shaner is vying for and am bombarded with the ads he runs on television. They are pathetic and have the Rove/Santorum/Republican smell to them. They’re so offensive I’ve e-mailed his office at least 3 times to explain what a scumbag I think he is. Didn’t know about the Santorum connection ’til I read it here. Cheers TBogg.
Who says all the kids are his?
Mailman, milkman, garbageman, poolboy (woo!woo), tennis instructor, massage therapist, …