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Tim Cavanaugh | October 5, 2006

Dave Weigel hits the campaign trail with Antonio "Tony" Williams, the GOP's great black hopeless in the District of Columbia.

Comments

|10.5.06 @ 2:51PM|#

Seppuku would be faster, cheaper and probably less painfull.

|10.5.06 @ 3:05PM|#

Aresen,

That's what you say now, but just try to compose a death haiku while pulling your intestines out. It's a lot harder than it looks!

|10.5.06 @ 3:53PM|#

An autumn dream
A hopeful pol rises
A Tuesday wipeout

|10.5.06 @ 4:04PM|#

I hope you weren't ripping your intestines out while composing that--I didn't mean my remark as a challenge.

A black Republican.
The sound of one man running
Into a sad void.

|10.5.06 @ 4:10PM|#

You say that DC has never had a republican councilor, then you name two, Schwartz and Catonia...

I guess if you're not going to win, its ok to get funding/backing from a tainted shill like Norquist?

I wonder what Juan Williams did to screw up his kid so much.

|10.5.06 @ 4:15PM|#

Where'd y'all learn to write haiku?

|10.5.06 @ 4:15PM|#

No worries.

I'd rather tell the tale of heroic tragedy than be the subject of the tale.

|10.5.06 @ 4:26PM|#

kohlrabi,

Is that question appended by "cause they suck?"

Bruce|10.5.06 @ 4:41PM|#

Screw this guy for not openly stating he is a Republican or having his party affiliation on his campaign materials. This will be how the GOP steals the upcoming election -- by pretending to be Democrats. Just wait and see.

Larry A|10.5.06 @ 5:07PM|#

This will be how the GOP steals the upcoming election -- by pretending to be Democrats. Just wait and see.

So what? They've been running the last administration by pretending to be Democrats.

|10.5.06 @ 5:33PM|#

The candidate makes a couple of good points. The first is that jabbering endless about the culture war turns off moderate voters. The second is that the Republican Party shouldn't just write off cities. Failing to field decent candidates and campaign effectively, even if they expect to lose, costs them votes in statewide races.

|10.5.06 @ 5:54PM|#

If he added the drug war and citizen empowerment (DC should get representation in Congress, one way or another) he might get somewhere...

|10.5.06 @ 6:08PM|#

Where'd y'all learn to write haiku?

A one-room schoolhouse
Poetry for beginners
My balls itch, bye now

|10.5.06 @ 6:27PM|#

The National Lampoon did the all-time best haiku parody:

"PEARL HARBOUR" by Isoroku Yamamoto

A December morn.
A sailor shivers.
A Nip in the air.

|10.5.06 @ 6:32PM|#

"Screw this guy for not openly stating he is a Republican"

Go to his webpage. Watch the video. He comes out and says he's a republican and says exactly why.

|10.5.06 @ 7:16PM|#

This will be how the GOP steals the upcoming election -- by pretending to be Democrats. Just wait and see.

Tell me the Democrats aren't already working on the excuses for not making any gains. And please tell me that the excuse won't be "Republicans are indistinguishable from us".

|10.5.06 @ 10:24PM|#

that jabbering endless about the culture war turns off moderate voters.

You mean, the lunatic fringe doesn't get to drive after all? I'd never have guessed from reading the MSM.

Or from listening to Democrats, who've made this kind of stuff their mainstay.

Or from listening to the Republicans who've made "reacting" to things Democrats say, their mainstay platforms.

|10.5.06 @ 11:08PM|#

Bruce,

If it makes you feel any better, David Roth is doing the same thing as a Democrat against Mary Bono in my little corner of southern California.