Poythress hits Republican “secession candidates”
GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE DAVID POYTHRESS: See his anti-secession video after the jump.
Democrat David Poythress may be an underdog in the 2010 governor’s race, but he put a video on YouTube today that does a pretty good job of showing how silly — perhaps even vulnerable — Republicans are sounding as they leap all over each other to appeal to the far right.
The subject: Noises the GOP candidates have been making about seceding from the good ol’ U.S. of A.
Poythress, who flaunts the fact that he’s a retired Army Reserve general, expresses his “outrage” in the video that four of six Republicans in the governor’s race are “embracing secession.” Photos of candidates Ray McBerry, Eric Johnson, John Oxendine and Karen Handel appear on the screen.
Poythress’ claim is only a bit of a stretch. He falsely states that the candidates said they’d “support secession from the United States of America.”
On the other hand, McBerry, whose photographer should appear next to the entry for “fruitcake” in the latest edition of Webster’s, has indeed announced that he’s running as a “States’ Rights”candidate. He also has less of a chance of winning the Republican nomination as Cynthia McKinney would were she running for the Democratic nomination.
OK, so Johnson, Oxendine and Handel — three of the GOP field’s four frontrunners — stopped short of declaring war on Fort Sumter. But they’ve been only a tad less direct than McBerry. Read more
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