Mr. Ricketts, Your Word Is: Hypocrisy

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This is exactly why I hate politics.

I revert to a previous post I made where I defined politics. The word itself is a compound word derived from the Latin word poly --meaning "many", and the English word tick --meaning "bloodsucking parasite".

For those of you who live out side of the State of Nebraska (known to those of you in Iowa, Kansas, and Colorado as the State of Confusion), I would like to draw your attention to the recent Senatorial Debate between incumbent (and more shockingly a Democrat) E. Benjamin Nelson and challenger Pete Ricketts.

The backgorunds of the two candidates are very different. Nelson is a former governor for a small town in Western Nebraska. A farmboy with an interesting hairstyle. Ricketts, is a big businessman, who wants you to think he is a smalltown farmboy-- despite the fact that he and his father are both insanely rich... and bald (not that hair really has anything to do with this... it's just another obvious difference). His wealth is no surprise, because he is in fact a Republican.

And while Ricketts has no announced his stance on guns... I'm sure he's pro-gun because... well, he's a Republican... and from Nebraska (and those are pretty much synonomous).

As Dennis Miller once said: "...Maybe the reason Republicans are so pro-gun is because they need them to constantly shoot themselves in the foot."

Where am I going with this? Hypocrisy and shooting himself in the foot...

During their last debate, Nelson extended an olive brach to Ricketts calling for and end to the mudslinging-- the running of negative campaigns on television. Ricketts, promptly changed the subject.

The very next day, I witnessed a Ricketts campaign ad citing the Omaha World Herald calling for Nelson to end the mudslinging and negative campaigns.

You can not be serious.

Nelson just called you out in a debate, suggesting an end to the negative campaigns... and you run such an ad, citing a newspaper that is blatanty biased in favour of Republicans, blasting Nelson for his mudslinging.

Brilliant. Ignore a face-to-face encounter, ignore the right thing to do, and then attack your opponent for something you, yourself, are doing.

Mr. Ricketts, I've read you bio on your website... and I'm pretty much convinced that not only are you an ass, but I would not be surprised to find out that you are a skinhead.

I'm sorry, but Washington, D.C. is already full of people who have said one thing then done another. We do not need another person running this country who acts and looks like a prick. Sir, there is no room for you at the inn.