When you’re a long-shot independent candidate for public office, you’ve got to exploit each news cycle.
Case in point: Gordon Howie, the tea party activist and former South Dakota legislator who’s running in the state’s open U.S. Senate race. In a video he released this week, Howie attempted to milk the viral footage of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) scrambling to get away from a pair of immigration activists in Iowa.
(The Kentucky senator insisted he wasn’t ducking the activists.)
In the video, Howie is seated next to another man at a table. But as soon as the candidate says he’d like to address immigration, the man gets up and runs away.
“I won’t run from the immigration issue,” Howie says after the man runs out of the frame. “Our borders have to be secure.”
Howie, who’s billed himself as the true conservative in the race’s crowded field, then squeezed in a veiled shot at former South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds (R), the Republican nominee who’s favored to win the Senate seat in November.
“And unlike my opponent, I will never sell citizenship,” Howie says in closing.
When your digestive system is acting up, instead of saying you have “the runs”, just say you have “the Rands”.
Please don’t try and be a ‘helper’ Gordo.
#RANPaul. Sure hope this one sticks. The “libertarian” Young White Bro Dudes won’t want to be associated with something they think is a p****y (their locution, not mine).
This guys actual electoral hopes are pretty much non existent, but it does go a long way to showing just how faint Paul’s presidential hopes are too.
When the tea party is openly mocking him, he can kiss those hopes good bye.
And unlike little bitty Rand Paul I do not have a teensy little doll-baby stomach and can wolf down an entire burger without even chewing the GD thing…