Charlie Melancon Can’t Really Be This Stupid, Can He?
Fresh off wasting the last six months trying to bash Sen. David Vitter over nine-year-old sexual peccadilloes and misbehavior of campaign aides, Democrat challenger Charlie Melancon is finally shifting gears to campaign on the issues.
And now we see why Melancon opted for sleaze from the start.
From the Melancon campaign’s Facebook page today…
I support tax cuts for the middle class – But David Vitter supports tax cuts for the wealthiest of Americans that make over $1 million, even though the average family in Louisiana makes $43,000.
A quick prediction – Melancon is going to end up getting absolutely hammered on this one when Vitter responds.
After all, Vitter isn’t opposed to restoring the Bush tax cuts for the middle class. He’s been quite clear in saying all of the Bush tax cuts need to be reinstated at the end of this year. So has every other Republican.
Melancon’s message seems to indicate that raising taxes on job creators in the middle of a crappy economy is a good idea – and opposing such an idea affords one’s opponent a political opportunity.
Maybe he’s right. Maybe class warfare will be a hot seller in Louisiana in the Year Of The Tea Party.
But Melancon has said he opposes reinstating the Bush tax cuts because of budgetary concerns. Which is an identical position to that of the Obama administration.
This would be a viable argument, perhaps, but for the fact that Melancon voted for $800 billion in union payoffs and Democrat catnip last year, a so-called stimulus which didn’t stimulate squat.
Of course, the Facebook message in question, and the subsequent tweet his campaign also put out…
@DavidVitter just doesn’t get it. He thinks “virtually everyone is wealthy.”
…are of a piece with a fresh round of attacks on Vitter trying to make him out to be a fatcat and a tool of fatcats.
Of course, with the revelation that Melancon ranks fourth among sitting Congressmen in donations from lobbyists, the whole “my opponent has lots of rich friends” reeks a little. The fact he’s reeled in over $475,000 from rich lawyers and law firms stinks a bit, too.
Melancon isn’t poor, and he doesn’t hang around with poor people. Nobody thinks he’s out there fighting for the “little guy,” and nobody ever has thought that. Up until now, he’s styled himself (fraudulently) as a conservative Democrat – which to the left-wing crowd Melancon seems to be appealing today translates into a friendly relationship with the rich and the established.
So now it’s the Workers Of The World Unite push?
Please.
Maybe Vitter has unpaid parking tickets. That might be more Charlie’s speed than tax policy and economics.
Vitter is a prostitute visiting idiot. It seems strange that you guys forgive moral indiscretions when it is a republican that commits them.
Didn't cost me a dime for him to do that. Melancon's stimulus vote will cost generations of Americans huge amounts of money. Which is the greater sin?
Ask God.
God isn't voting in this election.
I can't support anyone who violates gods laws. I wouldn't support those in favor the gays being married or those who commit adultery. If he is OK with breaking down his own family, what would he do in congress? How this man is still married amazes me.
Seems like his marriage is none of your business.
You are probably one of those people who think it was unfair to attack Clinton about his immorality. His actions with that woman are disgusting as are those of David Vitter.
Here's a news flash for you – the Republicans didn't get anywhere trying to make hay out of Clinton's sexual exploits, and Melancon's gang isn't getting anywhere trying to do the same with Vitter.
Government interference in Americans' lives is too pervasive and tyrannical at this point to care whether politicians are faithful to their spouses. The majority of Louisianians understand that, which is why Melancon's sleaze strategy has gotten him nowhere.
I think it's important that we know what goes on inside peoples bedrooms.
By your standard, you "think government interference in Americans' lives is too pervasive." Or may be you are one of these people who think gay marriage is OK.
The difference in Clinton is that he perjured himself. Sexual proclivities are one thing, but lying under oath is something entirely different.
What about God's laws against stealing?
Which is what Charlie Melancon did with my money when he took a taxpayer-funded trip with his wife Peachy to Hawaii, Australia, and Antarctica.
Which is what Charlie Melancon did when he used my money to lease himself a luxury SUV.
If you are a Christian, then you accept that we are all sinners and that God forgives those of us who repent of our sins. David Vitter sinned, but he has publicly repented of the sin and gone to marriage counseling in an attempt to repair the damage to his family. Where is Melancon's repentence for stealing?
I won't even get into the fact that Charlie Melancon would vote to confirm Supreme Court justices who support abortion and gay marriage. If you are trying to make a Christian case for voting for Melancon, it won't work.
This is what's known as a "campaign troll," Ryan. He's not the first from Melancon's camp to wander in here.
It offends me that you think I'm some democratic troll. I'm southern baptist and have the stars and bars on my porch as we speak. Just because you don't think those that represent you should follow Gods Laws, don't put it on me.
Yeah, I just don't believe you. I think you're lying. The fact that you refuse to even enter an alias to post more or less serves as a dead giveaway.
Is that better
Yep. That's great. Since you just violated the terms of the site's use, you're gone.
I never made the case for voting for Melancon. I've only said that I could never vote Vitter because of his immorality.
God's rules made sure gay people in CA can't be married. If people had the courage of their convictions as I do, then they would vote this immoral man out of office.
Vitter is a prostitute visiting idiot. It seems strange that you guys forgive moral indiscretions when it is a republican that commits them.
Didn't cost me a dime for him to do that. Melancon's stimulus vote will cost generations of Americans huge amounts of money. Which is the greater sin?
Ask God.
God isn't voting in this election.
I can't support anyone who violates gods laws. I wouldn't support those in favor the gays being married or those who commit adultery. If he is OK with breaking down his own family, what would he do in congress? How this man is still married amazes me.
Seems like his marriage is none of your business.
You are probably one of those people who think it was unfair to attack Clinton about his immorality. His actions with that woman are disgusting as are those of David Vitter.
Here's a news flash for you – the Republicans didn't get anywhere trying to make hay out of Clinton's sexual exploits, and Melancon's gang isn't getting anywhere trying to do the same with Vitter.
Government interference in Americans' lives is too pervasive and tyrannical at this point to care whether politicians are faithful to their spouses. The majority of Louisianians understand that, which is why Melancon's sleaze strategy has gotten him nowhere.
I think it's important that we know what goes on inside peoples bedrooms.
By your standard, you "think government interference in Americans' lives is too pervasive." Or may be you are one of these people who think gay marriage is OK.
The difference in Clinton is that he perjured himself. Sexual proclivities are one thing, but lying under oath is something entirely different.
What about God's laws against stealing?
Which is what Charlie Melancon did with my money when he took a taxpayer-funded trip with his wife Peachy to Hawaii, Australia, and Antarctica.
Which is what Charlie Melancon did when he used my money to lease himself a luxury SUV.
If you are a Christian, then you accept that we are all sinners and that God forgives those of us who repent of our sins. David Vitter sinned, but he has publicly repented of the sin and gone to marriage counseling in an attempt to repair the damage to his family. Where is Melancon's repentence for stealing?
I won't even get into the fact that Charlie Melancon would vote to confirm Supreme Court justices who support abortion and gay marriage. If you are trying to make a Christian case for voting for Melancon, it won't work.
This is what's known as a "campaign troll," Ryan. He's not the first from Melancon's camp to wander in here.
It offends me that you think I'm some democratic troll. I'm southern baptist and have the stars and bars on my porch as we speak. Just because you don't think those that represent you should follow Gods Laws, don't put it on me.
Yeah, I just don't believe you. I think you're lying. The fact that you refuse to even enter an alias to post more or less serves as a dead giveaway.
Is that better
Yep. That's great. Since you just violated the terms of the site's use, you're gone.
I never made the case for voting for Melancon. I've only said that I could never vote Vitter because of his immorality.
God's rules made sure gay people in CA can't be married. If people had the courage of their convictions as I do, then they would vote this immoral man out of office.
By the way, I love the fact that Melancon is attacking Vitter for having gone to Harvard and Oxford. Are that saying that Vitter is too smart for Lousiana and we need someone dumber like Melancon?
I didn't know being smart was such a problem. Isn't it true that the G. W. Bush and Obama wet to Ivy League? Shouldn't we have people who went to the best schools running things?
No we should have people just like us. I am serious.
By the way, I love the fact that Melancon is attacking Vitter for having gone to Harvard and Oxford. Are that saying that Vitter is too smart for Lousiana and we need someone dumber like Melancon?
I didn't know being smart was such a problem. Isn't it true that the G. W. Bush and Obama wet to Ivy League? Shouldn't we have people who went to the best schools running things?
No we should have people just like us. I am serious.
Sen David Vitter has been the single most conservative member of the Senate…except maybe for Sen Jim DeMint out of S.C. and he has publicly repented. Considering those two facts alone causes the Christ in me to draw a simple conclusion…what more does a man have to do to receive my forgiveness and my respect.
God Bless Senator Vitter, and God Bless America.
If it wasn't for Melancon caving to Pelosi and allowing the pro-abortion members on the subcommittee to bring the health care bill back up for a vote…after it's pro-abortion language had been removed…if it wasn't for Melancon, there would not be publicly funded abortions in the bill. Period.
The Christ in me says that I cannot support a man for public office that so callously delivers a victory into the hands of the enemy.
Jeff, in addition, Melancon stated in The Daily Iberian that he backed Obama in the election over McCain. As a result, he has supported abortion, gay rights, socialistic takeover of the heatlhcare and business community and crippling effects of the moratorium being pushed by the Dems and liberals in Washington, along with Obama. Remember, this is the same man that said that Blue Dogs found a fiscal conservative in Obama. Melancon is either dumb or isn't willing to see the facts, which, either way, is unexcusable.
publicly repented? what you been smokin?
his “repentance” was political grandstanding, nothing more.
Sen David Vitter has been the single most conservative member of the Senate…except maybe for Sen Jim DeMint out of S.C. and he has publicly repented. Considering those two facts alone causes the Christ in me to draw a simple conclusion…what more does a man have to do to receive my forgiveness and my respect.
God Bless Senator Vitter, and God Bless America.
If it wasn't for Melancon caving to Pelosi and allowing the pro-abortion members on the subcommittee to bring the health care bill back up for a vote…after it's pro-abortion language had been removed…if it wasn't for Melancon, there would not be publicly funded abortions in the bill. Period.
The Christ in me says that I cannot support a man for public office that so callously delivers a victory into the hands of the enemy.
Jeff, in addition, Melancon stated in The Daily Iberian that he backed Obama in the election over McCain. As a result, he has supported abortion, gay rights, socialistic takeover of the heatlhcare and business community and crippling effects of the moratorium being pushed by the Dems and liberals in Washington, along with Obama. Remember, this is the same man that said that Blue Dogs found a fiscal conservative in Obama. Melancon is either dumb or isn't willing to see the facts, which, either way, is unexcusable.
We should be hearing some good news shortly as the spending ha stopped and the tax increase is dead and the conservitives will elect enough people to make a difference assuring that at least a band aid will hold for now so off to the races we will go with the economy.
We should be hearing some good news shortly as the spending ha stopped and the tax increase is dead and the conservitives will elect enough people to make a difference assuring that at least a band aid will hold for now so off to the races we will go with the economy.
I wouldn't vote for Melancon for Dog Catcher.
I wouldn't vote for Melancon for Dog Catcher.
A vote for Melancon is a vote for Obama. I need not say more.
A vote for Melancon is a vote for Obama. I need not say more.
[...] keep asking the question whether Melancon could really be this stupid, and he keeps upping the ante. The latest iteration of the Who Dat business involves a Metairie [...]
David “The John” Vitter is nearly at the tail end of the republican digestive tract. He’s not had an original thought in his life. He votes as he is told and the only faux courage he’s managed to summon was to “threaten” to make certain no one could stop others from using “Who Dat.”
Vitter has helped paralyze our government. The republicans are like wife-beaters, if they can’t have her (OUR government) no one can.
Say what you will about Yankees, but when Spitzer got caught doin’ ho’s he got run off.
There are other candidates but you all have been brainwashed by the two party scam. Even the tea-bagger morons don’t seem to realize they have already been absorbed into the Republican Party.
In 2004 you had a choice between one wealthy New England Preppie and Ivy Leaguer who served and was decorated in Vietnam and another wealthy New England Preppie and Ivy Leaguer whose CIA daddy put him in a cushy spot far away from the fighting. Some choice.
I’m waiting to see how you closet racists and hypochristians take my beloved country another step closer to its doom tomorrow as you suffering fools vote again against your own best interests. Read the comments about how great a christian Horny Dave is, or how his education somehow passes the “elitist” test, whereas our more acccomplished President’s (who doesn’t cheat on his wife) doesn’t.
What’s the difference Louisiana?….even your democrats are republican-lite.
Thanks for enlightening us as to the “sanity” and intelligence of the Left. Don’t bother posting again.