The Perils of Celebrity Nominations For Political Office

[Webster]

(The Guardian) With several Republican Senate candidates stumbling, Adam Gabbatt looks into the party’s strategy of nominating celebrities to Congress – which they may come to regret: In Mehmet Oz, Herschel Walker and JD Vance, the Republican party has three celebrities running for Senate in November.

The only problem? At the moment, each of them looks as though they might lose.

Oz, a television stalwart better known as Dr Oz to millions of Americans, is trailing his opponent in Pennsylvania by double digits.

Vance, a bestselling author and conservative commentator, is behind in his race in Ohio, an increasingly red state that many expected Republicans to win. So far the most notable point of his campaign was when Vance appeared to suggest women should stay in violent marriages.

 

[KenDaGamer]

A quack, a has-been football player sucks at playing football and the other who's out of whack.

 

[DrLeftover]

Herschel Walker is obviously suffering from traumatic brain injury from his football days.

As far as Dr. OZ goes, not only is he a TV quack, he came really close to ending up in the Hotel Greybar next to "smiling Bob" and company for his line of "male enhancement" pills.

‘Historic’ verdict slaps ‘Smiling Bob’ with 25-year jail sentence

The founder of Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals, Steve Warshak, has this morning been handed a 25-year jail sentence and his company ordered to forfeit $500 million by a federal court that found him guilty on 93 counts of conspiracy, fraud and money laundering.

www.nutraingredients-usa.com

 

[Webster]

next to "smiling Bob" and company for his line of "male enhancement" pills.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Herschel Walker is obviously suffering from traumatic brain injury from his football days.

As far as Dr. OZ goes, not only is he a TV quack, he came really close to ending up in the Hotel Greybar next to "smiling Bob" and company for his line of "male enhancement" pills.

‘Historic’ verdict slaps ‘Smiling Bob’ with 25-year jail sentence

The founder of Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals, Steve Warshak, has this morning been handed a 25-year jail sentence and his company ordered to forfeit $500 million by a federal court that found him guilty on 93 counts of conspiracy, fraud and money laundering.

www.nutraingredients-usa.com

And if they vote even a hint of conservative or liberalism I’ll take them over any democrat currently in office or running. They are by no means the candidates we should have but they are what we have.

 

[DrLeftover]

And if they vote even a hint of conservative or liberalism I’ll take them over any democrat currently in office or running. They are by no means the candidates we should have but they are what we have.

But you could look at a celebrity getting into politics as a gift that just keeps on giving:

To wit:

Video Shows Dr. Oz Saying He Has Two Houses. He Actually Has 10.

Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/GettyIt’s a question most Americans can answer pretty easily: “How many houses do you own?”But for TV doctor and Senate candidate Mehmet Oz, it’s apparently a tricky one—with qualifiers, an explanation, and an interpretative answer.At a campaign...

news.yahoo.com

 

[Webster]

They are by no means the candidates we should have but they are what we have.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Who knew I had the spirit of Rumsfeld in me.

 

[Webster]

Who knew I had the spirit of Rumsfeld in me.

Its an honest view, something I use at times when talking to fellow liberals and progressives.

What it means is that while you might want the best equipment and training and personnel, sometimes you have to fight with whatever you've got on hand. The quote, Serafin, comes from a conversation Rumsfeld had with a member of the Tennessee Army National Guard following a deployment to Iraq in the mid-2000's (2005, I think). The Guardsman asked why DoD wasn't able to provide them the proper equipment to fight what, by 2005, had become an outright insurgency against members of Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI - what later mutated into ISIS) and that quote was Rumsfeld's response.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Its an honest view, something I use at times when talking to fellow liberals and progressives.

What it means is that while you might want the best equipment and training and personnel, sometimes you have to fight with whatever you've got on hand. The quote, Serafin, comes from a conversation Rumsfeld had with a member of the Tennessee Army National Guard following a deployment to Iraq in the mid-2000's (2005, I think). The Guardsman asked why DoD wasn't able to provide them the proper equipment to fight what, by 2005, had become an outright insurgency against members of Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI - what later mutated into ISIS) and that quote was Rumsfeld's response.

I remember it now, back when I thought we were doing good over there.

 

[DrLeftover]

Think about it.

Nobody decent wants to run for anything because they DON'T want the Washington Post digging through their trash can in the middle of the night and the NYT going back and reading their social media posts from 2007.

Even if you really don't have anything untoward to be ashamed about, they will find something, possibly even perfectly innocent, and then blow it out of proportion. And we all know, it is the questions that do the damage, not the answers.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Think about it.

Nobody decent wants to run for anything because they DON'T want the Washington Post digging through their trash can in the middle of the night and the NYT going back and reading their social media posts from 2007.

Even if you really don't have anything untoward to be ashamed about, they will find something, possibly even perfectly innocent, and then blow it out of proportion. And we all know, it is the questions that do the damage, not the answers.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

I think very few not nobody wants to run for office. I think Desantis is a decent man who had the guts and means to run for president. The last decent democrat I think of in office was Joe Lieberman.