What kind of conservative would think this was a good idea?
Clayton Kelly
The Senate Republican primary fight between Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran and his tea party challenger has taken an ugly twist, with a supporter of state Sen. Christopher McDaniel behind bars and all sides pouring scorn on the use of a helpless woman’s image in a political campaign.
Independent blogger Clayton Thomas Kelly, 28, Â was being held Sunday in the Madison County Detention Center charged with exploitation of a vulnerable adult.
Police say Kelly slipped into an adult care facility where Cochran’s wife is bedridden with dementia, taking her picture and using it in an attack video posted on his political blog, Constitutional Clayton, on April 26, according to the Jackson Clarion-Ledger.
McDaniel’s campaign denies it had any affiliation with Kelly or the attack, which was taken down almost immediately, But the memory of the incident is bound to loom large until the June 3 primary.
And if Twitter reaction is any guide, the memory is utter disgust.
Let’s let Republican strategist Rick Wilson set the tone:
Hard rule: leave underage kids out of political attacks. General rule: leave non-pol wives/family out. Strict rule: don’t be an inhuman ass.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 17, 2014
You’d think being bedridden with dementia would qualify as non-pol. You’d also think it qualified for a modicum of human decency. At least some Twitter posters did.
Off the top of my head, Trig Trutherism is about the only thing I can compare this too, @TheRickWilson. ‘course that was from “real” pros.
— VACUOUS CIPHER (@THE_DAILY_BLEAT) May 17, 2014
Some users had questions:
@TheRickWilson What point was this guy trying to make, exactly? That he’s a wretched guttersnipe?
— Eric Kleefeld (@EricKleefeld) May 17, 2014
And Wilson had answers:
@EricKleefeld That he’s looking for a full-on ass-beating in the parking lot of his apartment?
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 17, 2014
And then there was the purely tactical viewpoint.
@TheRickWilson: I love the folks reaching for “but Palin!” The Left may be dirty, but almost always smart enough to attack the other side.
— FricosisGuy (@FricosisGuy) May 17, 2014
But that view was the minority. For reaction to something like this, revulsion carries the day.
So disgraceful. –> http://t.co/xTVCsIL3cS #mssen
— Andrew Bair (@ProLifePolitics) May 17, 2014
Shameful. WTH was he thinking? Man arrested for sneaking into Thad Cochran’s wife’s nursing home http://t.co/9TFOq6qik9 via @clarionledger
— Camille Barden (@karmacamilleon1) May 17, 2014
Whatever it was, this Tweet says it all.
I rarely get honest to God disgusted, so congratulations guy who broke into Mrs. Cochran’s nursing home.
— Keep Brodigan Weird (@brodigan) May 17, 2014
This is too sleazy, even for a lib.
Liberals would lose it! Ben Carson, Allen West
could make history with 2016 bids
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