Posted on 11/04/2006 11:53:40 AM PST by Alex1977
Earlier a reader blog entry covered a little controversy in the Minnesota Governor’s race. Judi Dutcher, who is the running mate of Democrat Governor Candidate Mike Hatch, was asked a question about E-85 fuel. Dutcher responded by asking what E-85 is. Now this is a pretty major blunder here in the agriculture states. E-85 is a major issue for us, so the fact that Dutcher apparently doesn’t know what it is is significant. Tim Pawlenty’s campaign, the incumbent in the race, responded to the blunder by criticizing Dutcher for being ill informed on the issues. Amazingly, The Hatch/Dutcher campaign responded to that criticism by accusing the Pawlenty campaign of “attacking a woman.” The absurdity of that response was covered by the original reader blog entry, but today there’s yet another chapter to the controversy. Hatch?s anger overflowed during a Thursday morning telephone interview. A Forum Communications reporter asked Hatch about Dutcher?s knowledge of ethanol and why she wasn?t available to discuss the issue. Hatch abruptly ended the interview with: ?You?re nothing more than a Republican whore. Goodbye.? He then hung up. Television crews following the Duluth native Thursday reported other sharp comments when reporters pressed him for response to Dutcher?s comments. A “Republican whore,” eh? If criticizing a female candidate for not being knowledgeable on an important campaign issue is “beating up on a woman,” then what is calling a reporter a “Republican whore?” Of course, Hatch is now denying that he made used the term “Republican whore,” but I’m not buying it. That’s not something a reporter is going to lie about, nor is “Republican whore” something that is easy to misinterpret.
This will be NOTHING compared to the insults Republicans will endure when the Democrats take the House.
I hope the "I'd rather stay at home than vote" Republicans enjoy their tax increase and knowing that our military men and women have died in vain in Iraq.
Why do these dimwits thing that such name calling is appropriate. I would never vote for someone that can not control their emotions.
This is how they get when they think they are untouchable and above the law, they can do whatever they want and their friends or the taxpayer will pay for their lawyers and the press will cover up.
Having no manners or a sense of common decency must be a qualification of sorts for Democrat candidates.
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