Lies, Hypocrisy, and Foolishness (primary election edition)

I think that Brad Warthen would be smarter if he got a lobotomy. Seriously, what sort of twisted-pretzel logic do you need to come up with a column as dumb as this?

Maybe surgically removing part of Brad's brain is the only way to get him to think straight. Surely, he couldn't do any worse.

On Sunday, Brad Warthen personally endorsed Bob Staton. It's not bad enough that America's Worst Newspaper went for this guy; Brad had to take his own column space to give the guy a double endorsement. One can only assume that he's babysitting Staton's kids and waxing his car this weekend as well. Anything to help the campaign.

Of course Warthen supports Staton for Secretary of Education: Staton's a Democrat. He's consistently supported expanding the bureaucracy, growing spending, and avoiding reform while the kids in South Carolina schools continue to fall further behind the rest of the nation and the world.

Running a Democrat in a Republican primary is sleazy, dishonest, and un-American. (Americans believe in fair play.) Now here's the part where Brad proves he's silly, not evil.

The only way that running the Democrat Staton in the Republican race can work is if Republicans don't realize that Staton is a Democrat.

But Brad Warthen freely admits that Staton is a Democrat. That's why he encourages Independents and Democrats—not simply Republicans—to participate in the Republican primary.

Can Brad see the problem here? Probably not. His vision's not too good. So I'm going to write in big letters.

The Republican party is organized so that REPUBLICANS can decide on THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE for THE REPUBLICAN line on the ballot.

If you would like to elect a Democrat then, by all means, vote for Jim Rex in November. But registering for a party you don't belong to is, ahem, crashing a party. It's rude. It's dishonest. It's crooked. And in many states it's illegal.

In South Carolina, our party is run on the honor system; there's no bouncer at the door.

If fools and hooligans like Brad Warthen keep trying to mess things ups, we may have to relinquish our honor system and fall back on a law. Wouldn't that be a shame?

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