Dang! Talk about your disappointments. I read on S.C. Politics Today that Dr. Oscar Lovelace was…
…flying around the state in the company of pigs named Integrity,
Passion, Goodwill and Servant Leadership. Servant Leadership, he said,
is the dominant member of the group.
So I got pretty excited, and searched the AP wire for pictures of said pigs. When they didn’t materialize there or in the Saturday paper, or on the good doctor’s Web site, I put in a call to his campaign coordinator, Blake Wilbanks. I reached him by cell just a few moments ago, as he was riding somewhere on the campaign bus. He broke the sad news to me that the pigs in whose company the candidate was traveling were "figurative."
No pigs? No. No cardboard cutouts of pigs? Nope. Anything I could post a picture of on my blog? Nada. Just a bunch of rhetoric about Dr. Lovelace’s virtues in comparison to the governor, who famously carried real pigs to the lobby outside the House, and held them before the press while they pooped all over the carpet.
Dr. Lovelace may have integrity, passion and goodwill coming out the ears, but he sure doesn’t know how to do a pandering photo op. Makes you wonder whether he’s got the fire in the belly to win this thing, you know. Sort of reminds me of a candidate we saw four years ago, who we also thought was above cheap tricks. Guy name of Mark Sanford.
Loads of integrity, but no swine.
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Brad, can you ask Lovelace if he will endorse Sanford if he doesnt beat him? That would be an interesting ? to ask.
A better question.
How about ask Sanford if he will endorse Lovelace and give him several million dollars of his unspent campaign money?
Just ask Lovelace to move beyond the feel-good sloganeering about “health care for everyone” and improving Medicaid, and give us specifics.
Does he want to spend more or less?
On what?
Why?
Who should pay for it?
Actually, I spoke with Doc Ock yesterday, and HE brought up the question Dave raises. Actually, he brought up the fact that reporters kept bringing it up to HIM.
It sort of ticks him off that everybody wants to talk about him losing.
So I said, Well, what about it?
I started writing a post off that conversation yesterday, but didn’t finish. I need to go back and do that.
Tell the Doc that he needs to hurry his message beyond the bromide level, to some specific differences between himself and Sanford.
Lee
For differences between Lovelace and Sanford click on the link at thestate.com to the ETV “debate” OR read Oscar’s op-ed in Saturday’s State. They are significant and Lovelace makes more sense.
I have read what Oscar Lovelace has said. It is fluff stuff. No meat.