#88 - The Pennsylvania 18th Congressional District Speaks

I had never heard of Rick Saccone, the Republican Candidate, for the 18th Pennsylvania Congressional District, before, until I saw clips of him campaigning with Donald Trump Jr. This image alone was enough to make anyone feel nauseous, but then I heard Saccone speak, and that was enough to make the average person throw up.

Mr. Saccone was wrapping up his campaigning the day before the special election and was speaking with a small group of his supporters. In a sick attempt to galvanize support, he told the attendees there, that - he had seen his opponent’s supporters and…. they hated our country. Worse than that, and his wife had seen this too, they hated God.

Whoa!!

That’s right, apparently because they were supporting Mr. Saccone’s Democratic opponent, they hated our country and they hated God.

On the surface, this seemed to be a bit of a stretch for me, so I thought I would investigate more, and so I posed a few questions to Mr. Saccone.
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Let me get this right, sir. You both saw this? You and your wife? Really, sir, how do you know this? Oh, I see, you just know.

Do you have videos of them burning the flag? No?

Have they been stomping on your rosary beads? No?

Are you and your wife both telepathic and have you both seen in to the evil dark recesses of their sick and twisted minds? Nooo?

You weren’t abducted by aliens as a child, were you sir? Anal probing would explain a lot, sir. We could be very sympathetic here. Still No ?

Or Mr. Saccone, are you simply taking a page out of Donald J. Trump’s playbook on “How to Hate Your Way to Victory”?

I see a little smile in the corner of your mouth, sir. We nailed it, didn’t we sir ? Yes, yes, we did.
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Well, sadly for Mr. Saccone, the man proved to be a mere novice attending the Charter School of Haters. He hasn’t spent a lifetime perfecting his message of hate and vitriol like our dear, sweet President has. Generally speaking, it takes a rare person to espouse hate effortlessly, flawlessly, naturally and so happily, but that’s just what makes our President oh so….special.

It’s one thing to be hateful, but it’s another thing to hone the skills necessary to use hate as a galvanizing force. Those skills, take a life time to perfect.

As of this morning, the race was still too close to call with Saccone’s Democratic opponent, Connor Lamb, holding a microscopic lead as absentee ballots were still being counted. And either way, the race will go on to a recount, but the good people of Pennsylvania had spoken.

The 18th Congressional District which had been won by Donald J. Trump by 20 points less than 18 months ago had firmly voted to repudiate the hate espoused by DJT and his DJT wannabe, Rick Saccone.

It may be days or weeks before this race certified, for either Mr Saccone or Mr. Lamb. But no matter how the final votes are counted, make no mistake, this is a win for the good guys.

March 14, 2018