The first volleys of Alabama’s 2022 U.S. Senate campaign have taken place as GOP hopefuls former U.S. Ambassador to Slovenia Lynda Blanchard and U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) exchanged attacks over allegations Brooks had accepted money from so-called progressive corporations.
On Tuesday, Brooks’ campaign co-chairman Stan Mcdonald appeared on Mobile radio FM Talk 106.5 to question the attack’s efficacy and criticize Blanchard, who he deemed to be “pitiful.”
The fired-up Mcdonald predicted Blanchard would eventually fall victim to what he called the law of political physics.
“I don’t know if the Blanchard campaign has any kind of viable path to victory,” he said. “Certainly, they’re not going about things even in a professional way — and yes, I did say that. I know the consultants who do her campaign, and it’s not a professional way. You don’t start out when people don’t even know who your candidate is, when your candidate has not established name recognition, has not established who they are or what they believe in — in any real, tangible way when you go out with half-truths, obscuring the truth about the frontrunner from day one, it’s not good politics. It’s not even good persuasion. It’s not good anything. It’s a pitiful display, pitiful.”
“I guess if that’s what they want to do — what they’re not trying to do is win a campaign,” Mcdonald continued. “They may be trying to destroy a good man. And it’s really sad that’s all that their efforts are going to try to do is just be destructive. But what they’re going to find is one of the rules — I guess there are laws of physics: What goes up must come down. And then the law of political physics: What goes around comes around. And it’s not going to be because Mo Brooks or I or anybody has to do anything. It is going to be the laws of political physics. When you enter into the fray, and you jump in there by not telling the truth, mischaracterizing people left and right, it comes back and bites you by the natural law of political physics. She’s obscuring the truth from day one. Her political consultants are letting her do it because why not throw your hands up and just cry ‘uncle’ and just act frustrated? That’s where they’ve all got to be. That’s where they all are. It’s pitiful.”
Mcdonald expressed his disappointment in the tactics from the Blanchard campaign led by Kansas City-based Axiom Strategies, who had worked with Mcdonald previously during now-U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Auburn) successful campaign.
“[Y]’all don’t have a quarterback,” he said. “Y’all have got a good coaching staff, and you’ve got some good people on the front line. But your quarterback when you give her the ball — she can’t throw, she can’t pass, she’s not good on her feet. She doesn’t understand the offense, and she’s not going to make any plays for you. That’s the way it is, and y’all know that. And it has become painfully clear to you. Put a product out there that can run or pass or throw or do something. But you have nobody who can do anything. It’s an empty shell. Nice campaign. Wonderful people. Nice consultants. But you have a shell for a candidate. Make her stand up at a breakfast club. Make her stand up somewhere at a speech. And that’s all that is necessary, all that’s necessary for voters to see.”
@Jeff_Poor is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Alabama, the editor of Breitbart TV, a columnist for Mobile’s Lagniappe Weekly, and host of Mobile’s “The Jeff Poor Show” from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. on FM Talk 106.5.
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