2nd District (OH) Congressional Election: Hackett-Schmidt Guest Toons in Review
Welcome Trey Jackson readers. Here’s a link back to a complete pre-election collection.
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BizzyBlog would like to thank the guest artists for their valuable contributions. Given the nature of the campaign’s final week, the artists were sometimes frustrated with the web site’s PG-13 standards, but were gracious enough to modify some of their original work to stay within them. I can tell you, though, that the walls at BizzyBlog Central have a distinctively bluer tint. Anyone seeking artistic help should feel free to contact me, and I will put you in touch with the person whose work most impressed you right away.
By carefully screening the content of the cartoons presented, I was also able to ensure that they succinctly stated, and still state, my positions on most of the key aspects of the race, and at the same time spared this humble blog’s visitors undue BizzyBlog blathering. So here’s the recap of the points made in the past week:
STATURE: I agree with Hebe D. Feetid that Jean Schmidt, despite her diminutive height, stands tall (well above her physically taller competitor), both on the issues and in the way she conducted herself in the campaign. While some have criticized the statements and comments of some people loosely associated with her, and of others who had no involvement whatsoever with her campaign (except in the minds of the critics), there was no such problem in the Hackett campaign. The candidate himself was the one engaged in two-faced positioning, whining, swearing, and “vitriolic” comments and speeches.
OH BOO HOO: I agree with Wade Tillie Loozes that the Hackett Campaign and its imported help brought in a crybaby strategy, symbolized in his cartoon, that had been absent during the primary. The Whistleblower reports that this seal was discovered while someone (actually Mr. Loozes, on one of his extended lunch breaks) was “rummaging through all those out-of-state cars outside Hackett’s campaign headquarters in Batavia,” perhaps leaving the impression that the seal was (gasp!) stolen. I can now reveal that the filching that occurred was only photographic. No baby seals were harmed in the course of this cartoon’s creation.
PAUL HACKETT’S BLANKIE: Mr. Loozes’ wife, Betty Loozes, hit the nail on the head by noting that Hackett would call George Bush an SOB when speaking in public, but had no shame in using the President as his security blanket in his TV ads. Oh, and don’t forget “chicken hawk“–Hey, if Paul Hackett and the downward-spiraling New York Times want to bring back the “fake but accurate” glory days of Rathergate, I say “Bring ‘em on.” That’s right, Paul, regardless of what YOU think.
FACE IT: Ken Knotdrau lived up his name in making a point similar to Betty’s, but also emphasized that the TV Hackett is not only pro-Bush, but also pro-war, while the campaign-stop Hackett was against going into Iraq in the first place, and has been against how the occupation and transition to self-rule are currently being handled.
PARTY? WHERE’S THE PARTY?: Henrietta T. Hack’s sample 2nd District Ballot correctly surmises that Hackett would rather not see himself listed on the ballot as a D-D-D-D…Democrat. And of course, Par T. Crasher kicked things off six days ago by ridiculing the three big deceptions of the first Hackett TV ad (which remained in the second).
Since the artists relieved me of the burden of posting at length on the race after this past Monday’s entry on the first Hackett TV ad, I only need to comment on one remaining major hanging item, plus a few leftover odds and ends from the campaign. They will be handled in separate posts later today.
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