{"id":10191,"date":"2012-07-08T18:37:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T01:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=10191"},"modified":"2012-07-08T18:37:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T01:37:26","slug":"don-bongino-is-fighting-bureacrats-and-albert-gore-still-has-no-web-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2012\/07\/08\/don-bongino-is-fighting-bureacrats-and-albert-gore-still-has-no-web-presence\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Bongino is fighting bureacrats and Albert Gore still has no web presence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dateline Maryland<\/a>
\nRepublican U.S. Senate candidate Dan Bongino will be rallying against federal, state and local bureaucracies.<\/em>
\nBongino is headlining the rally on Wednesday in Temple Hills.<\/em>
\nHe’s citing costly regulations in health care as examples of federal government run amok.<\/em>
\nThe former Secret Service agent is running against Sen. Ben Cardin, a Democrat.<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s the entire AP article. \u00c2\u00a0Press release from the Dan Bongino campaign, I would say.<\/p>\n

Mississippi<\/a>
\nThe Republican from Tupelo, Wicker is sitting on a $2 million campaign fund. His Democratic opponent is Albert Gore — a retired minister from Starkville who’s running a low-key campaign, not the former vice president from Tennessee.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

A “Low key campaign” is still a campaign. \u00c2\u00a0I want evidence that this campaign exists. \u00c2\u00a0I want to see some of his speeches before lacks of crowds on youtube. \u00c2\u00a0A brief comment in some news item or other. \u00c2\u00a0SOMETHING.<\/p>\n

Because here’s the reason I am drawn to some of these “No Chance” candidates… Albert Camus from his journal in 1937…
\nEvery time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance\u00c2\u00a0to the way they are governed; that they gamble\u00e2\u20ac\u201cyes, gamble\u00e2\u20ac\u201cwith a whole part of their life and their so-called \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcvital interests\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Also kind of why I find the presidential election a tad uninteresting and non-illuminating. \u00c2\u00a0Looking at you, Obama, and the whole “You campaign in Poetry and govern in prose” line… a tacit admission of bullshit, somewhat. \u00c2\u00a0Though, the one thing about running for re-election is that you are now forced down to campaign in the muckity muck of that prose. \u00c2\u00a0I think Obama is riding tenants of\u00c2\u00a0Clark Clifford Memo<\/a> and Rove strategy reprise 2004 — what to do in tough electoral climates — to victory, and that John Roberts may prove to be the man who put Obama over the top by giving him something to prove his lack of in-effectualness.<\/p>\n

Chestnut in Wyoming, I think, gets this bit. \u00c2\u00a0Maybe the Vermont “Moderate” candidate.<\/p>\n

I think kinda notable<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Republican Sen. Roger Wicker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Democratic opponent Albert Gore is also listed in red, seemingly minting a race with two Republicans<\/em>.<\/p>\n

That’s pretty funny. \u00c2\u00a0The Democratic Senate Campaign page in the past has mocked some of the Republican “fluke” candidates, though I wonder if some of those candidates might wander into “mainstream Republican” material after a few election cycles. \u00c2\u00a0The Democrats went ahead and listed Alvin Green last election cycle. \u00c2\u00a0The Republicans, notably, didn’t mention Bob Kelleher in 2008. \u00c2\u00a0Why would they want to claim Albert Gore, I don’t know — even if it seems scurrilous to mock some old guy.<\/p>\n

John Lewis to Occupy Movement: \u00c2\u00a0“Be More Focused”..<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An interesting thing. \u00c2\u00a0A long haired hippy guy gave me a piece of paper with a link to Aaaron Russo on Infowars about Gun Control. \u00c2\u00a0With Occupy time slots. \u00c2\u00a0He said “This is why we’re losing our freedoms”, and darted off. \u00c2\u00a0Arguably the Democratic candidate most attune to “Occupy” is this Cynthia Dill<\/a> in Maine. \u00c2\u00a0Tacitly ignored by the Democratic Party and in the end with nodded winks by the Republican Party. \u00c2\u00a0Worth watching, though maybe not doing anything about.<\/p>\n

So consult the Camus quote, Ms. Dill, and outod Elizabeth Warren on some things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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