Oh, that Congressman Frank Guinta, what a card. In the 2010 hard-right tide that engulfed New Hampshire, he ousted incumbent Democrat Carol Shea-Porter. Now, after two years in Congress, he’s running for re-election — against incumbent Democrat Carol Shea-Porter.
Neat trick, eh?
“Hi, this is Frank Guinta, candidate for Congress, running against Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter. I’m running to end the broken culture of Washington…”
He doesn’t mention the fact that he fully deserves the title “Congressman,” while granting Shea-Porter the entirely honorific “Congresswoman” allowed to any former U.S. Representative.
And then there’s an online fundraising operation targeting 10 incumbent House Democrats. Er, well, maybe nine incumbents and Carol Shea-Porter, pictured in an unflattering blue tint with the misleading caption you see here. The text begs for contributions to “replace” and “retire” someone who was “replaced” two years ago.
I guess Frank Guinta thinks his Tea Party supporters are really, really stupid. Dumb enough to not know who their Representative is.
I guess Frank Guinta has done absolutely nothing he’s proud of as Congressman, since he’s deliberately trying to conceal his incumbency. He obviously hasn’t made any progress to fix “the broken culture of Washington” that he’s been part of for two years.
Also, I guess Frank Guinta is a lying S.O.B.
I guess, in the teabagger playbook, you may as well lie big, if you’re going to lie. And since it seems lying is the one and only trick in their campaign bag o’ tricks ….
His Tea Party supporters are stupid!!
Guess he has chosen not to run on the fact that he was on the Center for Responsible Ethics in Washington’s (CREW) 2011 list of most corrupt congressmen. He made the list for some shady loans that were made to his campaign fund in 2009 under unusual circumstances
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Never misunderestimate the arrogant, willful ignorance of the tea-baggers. Ms. Shea-Porter is an intelligent woman – they absolutely hate that. And she’s hyphenated!
The toxic state legislature (yes, they really passed a constitutional amendment to eliminate public funding of schools) has overplayed its hand so badly that there are over a dozen tea party types not even bothering to run again this year. “Disastrous” is too mild a word for this legislative “session”.
The Dems are extremely motivated, and they won’t be outworked or outspent. There’s every reason to understand why Frankie boy is trying to hide the fact that he’s in office, because literally every republican in office has been painted with the same brush…fools, idiots, and stooges of out-of-state billionaires.
Actually, if you look at the ad as a prediction of the future, it makes a lot more sense.