By all means let's send another clueless obstructionist to Congress

Please forgive me. I do write about politics once in a while, but I have tried not to get into individuals and campaigns except on a very general level. But, this guy Dan Sullivan I find so offensive I just had to get it out. He is closely aligned with and receives money from the Koch brothers who are doing everything they can to subjugate all the regular folks in this country. And, he is running such a negative campaign it turns stomachs at times.

Watching football Sunday at times bordered on cruel torture. The games were fine even if some of them didn't come out the way I would have liked.

Sullivan skipped a debate in Alaska so he could raise cash in Ohio.

The torture came in the political commercials, in particular those supporting a candidate for the U.S. Senate from Alaska.  Now, this guy has not said one positive thing in the whole campaign, but he is against a lot of stuff, like several issues of women's rights, gun control, global warming and, well, you get the idea, anything all the Repubstructionists in Congress are against.

The only thing he has spoken in favor of is the Pebble Mine, a massive open-pit proposal that threatens the headwaters of the largest sockeye salmon runs in the world.

Most of the ads focus on his opponent, a one-term Democrat whom this guy blames for everything except sour milk. He infers two things, that his opponent was responsible for everything that happened for past six years in the United States, and that the real opponent is President Obama. We know about Republican blame for Obama: there's that tan suit, and the offhand coffee salute and on an on. Among other things this guy criticizes his opponent for voting 97 percent of the time with the president. Well, jerkoff, your party buddies voted 100 percent of the time against him. Who's the bigger jerk. He also criticizes his opponent because he voted for Obamacare. For crying out loud, 10 million Americans now have health insurance they didn't have before. But his party has spent millions on at least 50 senseless, failed votes in Congress to repeal the enabling act and then funding a lawsuit against the president because he didn't follow that law exactly.

But Sunday's incessant ads trotted out a barely literate just-out-of his-teens snowmachine rider whose one claim to fame is he can do a flip on one of those things. And what was this wrenchhead's criticism? The other candidate didn't ride a snowmachine in his own ad very well. That ad shows the candidate simply riding by – offering all kinds of reasons for this kid to judge his abilities and condemn him as a bad candidate. I have been riding snowmachines for longer than that kid has been alive and while I have no interest in doing a flip on one, I wouldn't have done anything different than the candidate did in his ad. But, this kid would rather support some guy new to the state whose official residence is even in question. What the hell, I am supposed to vote against a sitting U.S. senator on the word of a kid who obviously has no clue about politics and the words he speaks were carefully crafted for him by some campaign shill?

There are plenty of other ads that go in the same tone: a teacher who might be an actress/spokeswoman,  among others.

The main point is this candidate takes cheap shots at a sitting senator and a president while offering nothing to the conversation. In one of his ads where he talks about what he can do for Alaskans he says condescendingly he will protect Alaskans. The question is from whom? He seems to be the kind of person we need protection from. It is difficult to understand why so many Alaskans seem to support him. He offers nothing except more of the same from Republicans in Congress, a group that over the past decade has attempted to bring the country to a standstill.

Judge for yourself. Here is the ad with the senator riding a snowmachine. Is he doing anything wrong  here, except to folks who just don't like snowmachines altogether?

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