LA-06: Former State Rep. Woody Jenkins (R) To Run ...

by: ryan

Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 15:43:34 PM CST


We Saw That caught it, and Oyster wins the headline of the day:

Oh Goody! Reactionaries are sporting their Woody.

But seriously, do we really want to have a Congressman who believes this:

As late as the year 1900, the majority of Americans owned their own businesses, which in most cases was a farm. People lived on farms. They had their own dreams. There were no limits. They were not employees. Employment was a rare thing. Americans viewed employment, in their historic memory, much like serfdom.

There was something special about being a farmer. The mother would raise the boy until he was five, six or seven years of age. Then the boy would go with the father to plow the fields, to work with the animals. They were together all day, hour after hour, year after year. And the father would talk to the boy and share with the boy everything he believed. He'd tell the boy what to think about God, what to think about his country and its political leaders, what to think about other men, and what to think about women and how to treat them. Over the years, the boy would come to believe everything the man believed.

For generation after generation in America, we had great stability because we passed down, from one generation to the next, the wisdom of the past.

As Oyster notes:

Civil War, Reconstruction, Gilded Age... those were good, "stable" times because families got to pass down their "wisdom."

Or allowed the campaign manager of his 1996 Senate race against then-State Treasurer Mary Landrieu to do this:

Jenkins came within about 5,000 contested votes from becoming one of Louisiana's U.S. Senators in 1996. His campaign manager was Tony Perkins from Baton Rouge, who, it was later revealed, bought David Duke's campaign mailing list from the Klansman for use in the run-off race against Mary Landrieu.
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