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Traditional Republican Majority Wins “Meanest Ad” Competition

The Kansas Traditional Republican Majority, putatively keen on “inclusion, respect, reason and, yes, compassion” stomped the competition this year with its impressively misleading and mean spirited attack on state senate candidate Mary Pilcher Cook

In its brief mission statement the Kansas Traditional Republican Majority (KTRM) talks about “governing with promise, not fear” and exploring “multiple perspectives  without fear.” KTRM also rejects the “hate and intolerance” that are alleged to “dominate the Party.”

 That the KTRM was able to rise above these self-imposed handicaps and accuse Mary Pilcher Cook of wanting to incarcerate parents for trying to save their children’s lives makes its victory in the Meanest Ad competition all the more impressive.

 Indeed, the only ad that was even close was the one offered by Cook opponent, the KTRM supported Sue Gamble, which accused Cook of wanting women to die of breast cancer.

 Champions of “moderation”—no argument here—recent KTRM alumni include Democratic Lt. Gov. Mark Parkinson, Democratic Rep. Cindy Neighbor, Democratic Rep. Lisa Benlon, and half the “Republicans for Moore.”

 Speaking of moderation, we are reminded of William Lloyd Garrison’s tribute to the same:

 "I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation.  No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen--but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest--I will not equivocate--I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch--AND I WILL BE HEARD."

 The cause at hand was slavery.  The extremist followers of Garrison founded the Republican Party and the state of Kansas.  The fact that Kansas has emerged as the undisputed world capital of late term abortion—precisely because of groups like KTRM—suggests the need, even today, for a little immoderation.

 And no, cloning opponent Cook was not about to put anyone in jail.  Shame, shame, shame!

 

 

   

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