Quote Originally Posted by lizbud
I keep thinking, if it's this bad in ultra conservative Indiana, what must it be like in other states.
You may not know about it or haven't heard much about our race in PA, but we've got a nasty one on our hands too!!!

The incumbent Rick Santorum and the challenger Bob Casey had a debate in Pittsburgh several weeks back and it was insane. First of all, the facilitators set them up on stage like 3 inches away from each other. It is apparent that not only do they have very philosophical and personal differences, they also seem to genuinely despise each other. It really looked like an hour long argument - "no" statesmenship here!

They continually interrupted each other, routinely ran over time, avoided the issues/questions and accused each other of everything under the sun!!! LOL! I thought they were going to physically fight. Lots of finger pointing and in each other's faces. Casey kept saying, "give back the money Rick" (referring to the fact that Santorum owns a home in Penn Hills - Pgh Suburb, but lives year round in VA. He home schools his kids through a Cyber school program offered by Penn Hills and Allegheny County, PA has been paying 55K a year to school kids who Casey claims live in VA) at every opportunity. Rick Santorum kept saying, "look into the camera Bob, and tell the people how many days you went into the office last month (referencing his claim that Casey is lazy, doesn't show up for work and is taking the taxpayers money for a job not being done).

Casey won't answer the question other than to say, "he get's his work done". Santorum says that Casey does 2 events (campaign events) a week, while he [Santorum] does 2 events every day by noon!!! Sounds like a good analogy on the surface until you think it through... With that much time and energy going into campaigning, when does "HE" ever have time to "do his job"???

Anyhooo... it's been very nasty and I am ready to vote. All the ads now are extremely trivial and totally inaccurate,unfair and misleading - both sides are now trying to appeal to their base and IMO those that aren't very intellectually savy. Hey, if you know a few folks out there hate army boots... why not say your oponents Mom wears 'em?? It's worth a try!!!