 The resounding, landslide victory of U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall (D) in WV-01 was not only a thumping of the disgraced former judge and French Riviera vacation friend of Don Blankenship but also a resounding defeat of the bigotry that the Spike Maynard and the Republicans introduced into the race.
In a commercial based off lies and that the nonpartisan FactCheck.org called one of the harshest of the campaign season, Spike and West Virginia Republicans tried to base their attacks on the statesman-like Rahall on the fact his grandparents were born in Lebanon.
Spike and the WV GOP made false ties to try to link Rahall, a Presbyterian, to Islamic terrorist organizations because of Rahall's ethnicity even though he's a West Virginian through-and-through.
Outside money, much from Don Blankenship who puts profits over the lives of his workers time after time, was used to smear a good and decent representative for West Virginia.
And their appeals to naked bigotry through misinformation failed.
Republicans should not only hang their head for their resounding defeat in WV-03, but out of shame for their indecency and their bigotry. Considering the kind of people they are, I don't expect Spike, Blankenship, Roman Stauffer or any of their ilk in the WVGOP to have enough sense of propriety to know shame.
But West Virginia voters thoroughly rejected them and their malicious campaign tactics. Again. |
