Childless campaign smear
Ooooh, this is the sort of thing that makes BNOB's blood boil!
From Raleigh, North Carolina:
Vernon Robinson, the Republican running against Democrat incumbent Brad Miller in the 13th Congressional District, has sent out a mass-mailing that's raising eyebrows. In the flier, Robinson, who opposes gay marriage, seems to imply that Miller might be gay.
Robinson's flier says, "Brad Miller&is childless [and] middle-aged." Miller's wife, Esther Hall, believes it is an insinuation that her husband is gay.
"Which is a great surprise, since we're about to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary," she said. "I think it absolutely crosses the line."
About the couple being childless, Hall says they are physically unable to have children.
If not having children--whether by choice or due to physical reasons--is reason for political smear, then clearly we have a long way to go towards making our choice as socially acceptable as changing your baby's diaper in public.
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From Raleigh, North Carolina:
Vernon Robinson, the Republican running against Democrat incumbent Brad Miller in the 13th Congressional District, has sent out a mass-mailing that's raising eyebrows. In the flier, Robinson, who opposes gay marriage, seems to imply that Miller might be gay.
Robinson's flier says, "Brad Miller&is childless [and] middle-aged." Miller's wife, Esther Hall, believes it is an insinuation that her husband is gay.
"Which is a great surprise, since we're about to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary," she said. "I think it absolutely crosses the line."
About the couple being childless, Hall says they are physically unable to have children.
If not having children--whether by choice or due to physical reasons--is reason for political smear, then clearly we have a long way to go towards making our choice as socially acceptable as changing your baby's diaper in public.
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2 Comments:
Typical Republican tactic - smearing the opponent without having the balls or the courage to come right out and say what they mean. Coward.
Bigots are as bigots do.
How about being an infertile couple, and having to be childless because of it? Using expensive fertility treatments, after two stillbirths and two miscarriages in two years, bouts of post partum depression and PTSD, and anger over being childless, being told you're too poor to afford adoption; and then suddenly being told how selfish we are for being childless? Would that be fun? It's happened to me before.
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