Just saw on Twitter that Dwight Drake is making some hay from the story in The State today about the ways prominent Republicans have embarrassed South Carolina lately:
The list of GOP failures grows. It really is time for a change. We need new leadership and a new direction for SC now. http://bit.ly/dAyn3X
A bit of an oversimplification, of course, but he might as well make the most of the opportunities the GOP is handing him.
In fact, the story — which isn’t actually ABOUT recent embarrassments as it’s about results of a poll showing that South Carolinians are embarrassed, and it sort of infers the rest — misses a lot of good examples. Such as the latest from Rep. Mike Pitts.
As y’all know, as an UnPartisan I hate making fun of one party without making fun of the other just as much. Unfortunately, the Democrats just haven’t come through with nearly as much foolishness lately, while it seems the GOP is having daily strategy sessions to come up with creative ways to help the Dems.
I mean, we have Robert Ford with his campaign based on video poker, but that’s about as silly as it gets. Which, as John Cleese would say, is not particularly silly. Perhaps Sen. Ford can get a government grant from Washington (where Democrats offer a bountiful feast of silliness, keeping up admirably with the GOP) to develop it.
By the way, go read that story in The State, and you’ll see why I made the transition to opinion writing long ago. The news pages of newspapers still cling to this notion that they must never make an actual observation, no matter how obvious. No, they have to get someone else to do it. So it is that while the blogosphere has pulled no punches in documenting the foolishness of S.C. politicians (and yes, the prime examples are Republicans), MSM news folks have to resort to the awkward expedient of getting someone else to say the obvious. And so they have to construct a story telling you that a poll is saying something that you knew already.
And it’s really, really awkward. Always has been. That’s why I left newsrooms behind at the end of 1993. Couldn’t stand the stiltedness anymore.
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