In an editorial titled “Time To Switch Teams,” a Times Herald-Record business editor announces he why won’t vote (as he always has) Republican in the fall:
The reason Republicans are bent out of shape is that this Foley scandal is the proverbial last straw. We’ve had it. The out-of-control spending. The earmarks. The graft with the lobbyists. The arrogance. The abrogation of principles that Goldwater, Reagan and others worked decades to spread.
The Republicans will lose the House in November. Absent big changes, I have to say they deserve to. I will help them lose it, because in my own congressional district, Pennsylvania’s 10th, I’m voting for Democrat Chris Carney. As the campaign literature for Carney slyly notes, he’s been married for 18 years to his college sweetheart.
Why might he note that? Because his opponent, and the incumbent, Republican Don Sherwood, engaged in a five-year affair in Washington with a mistress some three decades his junior.
My father had choices. The Republicans offer me candidates who can’t even keep their pants on. I’ve had it.
(Great. But why “slyly”?)
