Would you vote for this man? (WV)

[AnnInLa]

I guess this is amusing if you are from WV...from www.wonkette.com





Above, an ad that ran in Charleston Daily Mail and the Charleston Gazette last week, while the President was visiting West Virginia for a fundraiser. John Raese, the gentleman with the, uh, big-ass gun, is challenging crazy old bat Robert Byrd for his Senate seat (which will be pried from Byrd’s cold, dead ass).

Now it’s West Virginia — they like to go around firin’ guns left and right while hootin’ and hollerin’. But, as Byrd’s spokesman points out: “They just don’t do it in tailored pin-stripe suits and expensive elephant guns.”

Added hilarity may be found in the way Raese has his finger on the trigger while happily not paying attention to where it’s pointed — gun safety 101, John. As a concerned West Virginia reader tried to explain to us:

It’s not that we West Virginians think Byrd is anything less than old and crazy, it’s just that he’s less terrifying than John Raese.

www.wonkette.com

[Homer Wells]

1. I AM a West Virginian

and I would vote for my dog before I would vote for Raese. What a pile of crud that man is!!

:puke: :nuke:

[ThomWV]

2. Actually He's A Pretty Nice Guy

He doesn't (and shouldn't) stand a chance against Senator Byrd, but John is actually a nice guy in person. I first met him over 20 years ago and our paths cross from time to time. I wouldn't vote for him for anything but at the same time I would not call him a bad person.

[WildClarySage]

3. No hell no, I won't vote for him,

and I prefer to think of Byrd as eccentric, not as a crazy old bat. More of a crazy old fox. Byrd may be old, he may have a few views more to the right than I'd like, but he's done so much for WV, financially, and for America in calling Bush out, that he could be dead and I'd vote for him before Raese.

[Rex]

4. Sure is a small barrel.

:rofl: