Wife beater Turns Abuse into Campaign plus

[packman]

Only a Repuke thinks like this - from Maine an idiot runs on the platform that the abuse charges leveled against him makes him a viable candidate. Yah, sure and George Zimmerman -based on this logic- should run for President.


http://bangordailynews.com/2013/12/30/politics/elections/susan-collins-primary-challenger-erick-bennett-says-fight-against-assault-conviction-shows-integrity/

[PDJane]

1. Chutzpah. The man has chutzpah.

Not much in the way of brains, mind....

[Gothmog]

2. Juanita Jean is having fun mocking this wife beater

http://www.juanitajean.com/2014/01/07/wife-whackin-its-about-freedom/

Okay, I know that the foreign state of Maine is a long damn way from here, but guys like this aren’t.

Erick Bennett is running for the United States Senate against Susan Collins. Okay, he has that right, but Susan Collins isn’t the first woman he wanted to beat.

In 2003, Erick Bennett was convicted of beating his wife. She divorced him and, after he unsuccessfully appealed the conviction, he went to prison. Even afterwards, he contends that it’s everyones fault but his. It’s liberal judges, crooked prosecutors, lying women, bad cops, and probably Barack Obama. Okay, so I made up the Barack Obama part but you know he’s said it at some point.

It’s weird enough that he still defends his actions, but now he’s saying that it’s the best damn thing about him.

“The fact that I have been jailed repeatedly for not agreeing to admit to something I didn’t do should speak to the fact of how much guts and integrity I have,” he said. “If I go to D.C., I’m going to have that same integrity in doing what I say, and saying what I do, when it comes to protecting people’s rights, as well as their pocketbooks.”

Honey, that’s denial on a catapult.

[DavidDvorkin]

3. The guy is being slammed for something he didn't say

His claim, at least, is that he's innocent of the charge and that he displayed integrity by refusing to plead guilty to false charges.

Now, he may really be guilty; the court certainly thought so. He may be scum; it sounds like it. But let's slam him for that, not for something he didn't say.

[packman]

4. Now

you are just being too reasonable. Why can't we act like Repukes and cast the first stone?

[DavidDvorkin]

5. Hah!