Extremely Lame

It’s as if the spirit of Rudy Giuliani has been summoned to the land of the snow birds.  A man in Orlando has rented several billboards to promote his CD and website, which also encourages people to not vote Democrat. Okay, fine, whatever. It’s dumb and a cheap marketing ploy.  The bonus is that he’s invoking 9/11 to encourage you to vote for Republicans.

Yeah, the billboard has a picture of the smoldering twin towers right next to the text, “Please don’t vote for a Democrat,” followed by a link to the guy’s website right below.

What I can’t understand is why Democrats are trying to get this billboard taken down. For one, it’s a free speech issue and trying to get it taken down makes them look like a bunch of freedom hating censorship lovers. But possibly more important, it shows their rivals as mouth breathing tards that even the most conservative of people shy away from, even if they had absolutely nothing to do with it, which seems to be the case. If anything, it makes the Republicans look bad.

Hell, if I were a Democrat in Florida, I’d actually consider putting up more of these ridiculously tasteless billboards that lambaste Democrats in such a way and have them up there until election day. I think more people would be swayed to vote Democrat than would be swayed to vote Republican by this. Sure, people in general are morons, but I think most people by now have become steeled against those who would use 9/11 for fun and profit.

True, Democrats putting up tasteless anti-Democratic billboards is slimy and underhanded, and I’m not going to invoke a tu quoque by saying it’s okay because the Republicans did it first, I just like seeing things like that billboard backfire on people.

Oh, and WFTV, you’re living proof that computers make crappy spell checkers. It’s censor, not sensor. The spell checker didn’t catch it because sensor is a real word; it’s just not the word you want to use when you are talking about some agency interfering with someone’s right to free speech.