Senate Candidate Attacked Over World of Warcraft

[Doug]

...this is the third most stupid and disturbing thing I've seen out of the republican party.

Dare I ask...what's one and two? I assume one of them is 'George Bush', but I'm not American, so don't always hear about their stupidity.

 

[Evil Raccoon]

What, no speechless Nathan Fillion gif in this thread yet, I'm disappointed Escapist.

OT:
this is why America can't have nice things.

 

[Groenteman]

Am I glad I dont live in America, is what I would say, if it wernt headed in the same direction where I live. Which is real damn funny, with that trend having been started under the pretext of 'making politics exiting again'.

Theres nothing im less interesting in than tabloid scandal drivel.

Captcha: carpe diem. It may have a point.

 

[AlwaysPractical]

Faux News.

is it sad that that made me crack up for several minutes?

 

[Nantucket_v1legacy]

Seriously?
This is quite funny really because when I joined a political party I was surprised how nerdy they all were. The first meeting had a Star Trek reference! So WHO ARE American politicians?

 

[Spy_Guy]

As has probably already been said... if I was American (which I am not, thankfully, curse your gubrnmint) this would make up my mind about voting for that woman.

Colleen's rogue for President!

 

[Superior Mind]

What an idiotic thing to attack someone over. I can only hope equally idiotic sites pop up criticising a candidate's favourite movie or a candidate's reading choices. I'm not sure I'd want anyone in political office who thought E L James was worth spending time on. Lets start judging people's suitability for political office on their shoe size.

 

[MetalMagpie]

American politics are weird. I can't imagine a British politician making this sort of very personal attack on a rival without getting shouted down with "distracting from real issues!" comeback. MPs in government have been caught having affairs before, and the opposition hasn't mentioned it.

 

[Azahul]

I'm conservative and I think this is stupid. On of the big things about conservatism is more freedom and keeping private lives private.

More and more I've been thinking that the Republican party isn't conservative. The Democratic party is uber left and the Republican party is left. The only true right wing is left out in the cold without a proper party that can win.

Actually, looking at things on a world stage, both your political parties come off as pretty uber-right (although the left-right scale makes enormous generalisations and doesn't actually represent the way politics works too well, for example, Australia's "right-wing" conservative party is called the Liberal party, which the Americans I know find hilarious). Mind you, if you're calling the Republicans conservative for their support of freedom and keeping private lives private, then yeah, Republicans certainly aren't conservative. Aren't they the same ones that came up with the Patriot Act?

OT: Not much more to add. Attacking someone for playing a game in their spare time is about as absurd a reason as I can think of.

 

[Soviet Steve]

Wait, they let a normal person into the senate?

 

[JSoup]

Orc running for office? I'd vote for her, for the Horde and all that.

 

[Falterfire]

If you want your party to stop being the butt of everyone's jokes, perhaps you should step up and take some damn control, then.

Because otherwise, you'll continue to be represented by folks who attack a senator for playing WoW, who point to various video games and blame them for destroying American values instead of telling parents to do their job and parent properly, and who claim that learning critical thinking in school teaches children to undermine parental authority and thus should be banned from schools. All of which are things that I have yet to speak to a single Republican friend of mine who honestly believed any of these things. So why do you let these people stand in the spotlight and represent you?

These are the public face of your party. If you don't want these clowns representing you, GET RID OF THEM. Continuing to vote for them simply because they're the Republican candidate offered to you is effectively the same as approving of these policies you clearly don't agree with, so why would you do it? There should come a point at which party loyalty ends and you just stand up and say "enough", and it's pretty obvious that a lot of the sensible Republicans just aren't willing to do that.

Until then, you don't get to ***** about how your party is represented in the public eye. Just like the Democrats don't get to whine about their public image so long as THEY continue to vote in the same morons they're so fond of. >_>

Brilliant plan! Why didn't I think of that? I'll get right on that whole 'restructuring a major political party' thing! It'll be quick, just gimme a couple minutes. I'll fix human nature so that nobody is stupid ever again and everybody agrees with me forever.

... Okay, done. Anything you'd like me to do?



Also: As others have pointed out, although specifically attacking for the WoW thing is wrong, some of the things she says aren't exactly what you want to hear from an elected official: Wanting to drown somebody in a bathtub? Even as a joke, that's not the sort of wording I'd like to her from somebody I'm voting for.

 

[Zombie_Moogle]

So she lost the paranoid shut-in vote. ouch

Don't forget about a good portion of the octogenarian vote, most old people I meet have a hard time rapping their brains around the hobby.

Actually, it's gaining popularity in that community. I recently put a copy of Limbo on my 80 year old step-grandmother's laptop

 

[Nimcha]

Just the fact that she plays Horde is in instant vote from me. The fact that she plays a female Orc means I would campaign for this woman if I lived in Maine.

If you are actually serious with this, I find this just as sad as not voting for her for the same reason.

 

[Saltyk]

Is anyone else curious as to why she mentions being a democrat in one of those quoted posts? I mean, who talks like that? No one. I never hear people walking down the street saying things like:

"As a steel worker, I like your car."
"As a member of the Green Party, I love this song!"
"Who would have thought that a gay man would enjoy this move?"
"I'm an accountant, and I love that restaurant."

It's just not relevant.

Oh, and yes, a sad desperate attempt that isn't particularly clever, and fails to understand the basic concept of gaming culture. But that's blind to political affiliation, guys. After all, Leland Yee is a democrat.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

I think I'm with point-and-boggle crowd. Or point-and-recoil if I'm honest.

Using stereotyping and fear mongering as an actual political tactic isn't unheard of, but is normally not so blatant. Whoever thought of it should be force-fed their own eyes with a fork. What kind of crap has the democratic system become? You're meant to look at the f***ing policies not worry about what they do in their free time.

 

[samahain]

That is a cheap shot if I ever saw one. It's so ... D U M B !
And yes, she sounds cooler now. o_-

I think it's also copyright infringement or misrepresentation of some sort.
Someone's not taking those things seriously and won't get elected.

Way to shoot oneself in the foot Tory Toadies...

 

[Incomer]

And my DPS (Deaths per second) got higher...
Well at least we know they bothered to investigate this thoroughly.

 

[Mysten]

Is anyone else curious as to why she mentions being a democrat in one of those quoted posts? I mean, who talks like that? No one. I never hear people walking down the street saying things like:

"As a steel worker, I like your car."
"As a member of the Green Party, I love this song!"
"Who would have thought that a gay man would enjoy this move?"
"I'm an accountant, and I love that restaurant."

It's just not relevant.

 

[Saltyk]

Is anyone else curious as to why she mentions being a democrat in one of those quoted posts? I mean, who talks like that? No one. I never hear people walking down the street saying things like:

"As a steel worker, I like your car."
"As a member of the Green Party, I love this song!"
"Who would have thought that a gay man would enjoy this move?"
"I'm an accountant, and I love that restaurant."

It's just not relevant.

*Looks at you avatar*
That's oddly appropriate that you would use that clip.

And Shepard is a bad ass. Of course he can get away with it! Also, he's kind of a celebrity. But honestly, he only gives his name and rank. It's not like he started listing off the groups he belongs to or his religious beliefs. You know, because those were so relevant to his shopping habits.