This is the true story of six Republicans, picked to live in a house, work together and have their lives taped, to find out what happens when people stop being polite, and start getting real…
Or something.
RightNetwork, a conservative TV network scheduled to launch September 8, is planning a reality show called “Running,” featuring six current (or failed) congressional candidates. “Their attitudes may vary, but they all have one thing in common,” the “Running” promo says. “They love their country, and are willing to do something for her.”
The show will follow the six candidates in the run up to the 2010 elections.
“There’s no word yet on deals with cable companies to carry” the network, according to USA Today. Still, Kelsey Grammer seems pretty excited about it.
Grammer appears in numerous promos on the RightNetwork website, including the “Running” trailer. He touts the action-packed show about “six rookie candidates” making “a run for their political lives”:
So who are these candidates? Well, half of them are already out of the running. But, as with any good reality show, they all fit a profile:
The Jocks: Former pro-football player Clint Didier came in third place in Washington’s “top two” Senate primary, losing to Sen. Patty Murray (D) and Dino Rossi, despite the all-important Sarah Palin endorsement.
Jim Gibbons, a former Iowa State wrestler and head coach, was also knocked out of his race for Congress in Iowa’s third district.
Be sure to watch as these two compete for “Alpha Male” status.
The Computer Whiz: Ari David is trying to knock off Rep. Henry Waxman (D) in California’s 30th District. David has a blog on Andrew Breitbart’s “Big Hollywood” site, and has accused Waxman of, among other things, trying to “STRANGLE family farms with insane Soviet-Style regulation.”
The Dreamer: John Dennis is the anti-war, Ron Paul-endorsed candidate trying to oust House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in California’s 8th District. He says that “in the end, there is only liberty. And if we support some types of liberty but not others, ultimately we will be left without liberty at all.” But sometimes liberty has it’s price, as Dennis learns: In the promo video, he describes how somebody broke into his office and took his webcam.
The Bad Boy: Chris Simcox, the former leader of the anti-immigration Minuteman movement, dropped out of the race for Sen. John McCain’s Arizona seat in February. But just because he’s no longer running for office, doesn’t mean Simcox has been out of the news. In June he was slapped with a restraining order and ordered to surrender all of his weapons after his wife alleged he had threatened their children and the police with firearms. Simcox later maintained that his wife had hired a bounty hunter with whom she was having an affair, and the two had “engaged in a pattern of devious and malicious conduct including statements of iniquity, to torment me emotionally.”
The Doctor Who Likes Tractors: ER Doc Donna Campbell, who is opposing Dem Rep. Lloyd Doggett in Texas’s 25th District, says “when I see what the polished politicians have done, it makes me angry.” Campbell also has her own personal promo video for the show, that shows her hosting a tractor pull in Texas. Watch:
