Pompeo vs. Tiahrt
Everything
about this race makes me ill. It's like that game -- would you rather.
Would you rather be falling off a 20-story building and snag your eyelid
on a nail? Or... would you rather have wooden toothpicks rammed beneath
your fingernails while being run over by a bus?
Both
of these candidates are completely, 100 percent unpalatable.
Thankfully, I do not live in that district. If I did, I would not cast a
vote for either of them.
Ironically,
I would've voted for Tiahrt in a milisecond, and then he started his
campaign. Seriously, his campaign rhetoric goes something like this: I
love pork barrel spending. If elected, I promise to make deals that
divvy out pork to other districts and in return, I'll keep the bacon
coming home to Wichita. In a nutshell, that's his WHOLE campaign.
Remember
all of that Tea Party push to slow (or stop) spending? Remember that
push to eliminate crony capitalism? It's as if the last four election
cycles never happened and at the Tiahrt campaign office, it's 1996. That
isn't the message Tiahrt embraced in his 2010 primary campaign for U.S.
Senate. That was a close race, and I personally believe Moran was
successful because he was the more fiscally conservative of the two. Did
Tiahrt learn nothing in 2010?
Meanwhile,
Pompeo has never been a nice human. I knew this going in. (To hear some
former campaign staffers talk, Pompeo was an absolute tyrant. Arrogant,
rude and unlikeable.) Still, I am surprised by the bullying tactics
Pompeo has apparently employed to stifle opposition. For example, Pompeo
has been accused of bullying teens -- Roberts' campaign field directors
Dalton Glasscock and Moran Anderson. In their sparetime, the two also
volunteer for the Tiahrt campaign. According to one blog,
Pompeo called Roberts and threatened to revoke his endorsement of
Roberts and provide endorsement and funding to Roberts' opponent, Milton
Wolf.
The
blog, linked above, lists several, several other attempts to bully
Tiahrt volunteers and supporters. It's just disgusting and embarrassing
for a Kansan (in office, no less) to treat people that way. It's
unacceptable. It is an absolute abuse of his position, and if he was a
decent human, he would offer an immediate apology. I mean, he would
really lay it on thick.
The
bullying tactics are even more frightening considering Pompeo supports
allowing the NSA to spy on American citizens. Obviously, Pompeo can't be
trusted not to use whatever information the NSA garners against his
fellow countrymen should they disagree with him or oppose him on any
issue.
That
race literally puts my stomach in knots. It's a lose-lose. If Tiahrt
wins after campaigning for earmarks and pork, we can just write off the
entire country. We can't afford the mentality that spending just for the
sake of political expedience is a way to conduct the business of the
American people.
And
it's intolerable to comprehend the elevation of someone who like Pompeo, a bully, who may be inclined to use the NSA to blackmail U.S. citizens, to have a
seat at the table of American governance.
If
there's any way that Pompeo and Tiahrt could both lose on Aug. 5,
that'd be awesome. I can't handicap this race. No matter who wins
tomorrow, America loses.
Do better next time, Wichita.
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