The Colonel Takes Dead Aim At His Foot

From the Herald Leader:

“Republican leaders who might have known about disgraced former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley's explicit sexual messages to underage male pages "are very liberal people" because they did not expose Foley's actions, Democratic congressional candidate Mike Weaver said in an interview with the Herald-Leader on Monday night.

"They have tolerated things that they should not have tolerated," Weaver said. "And it is far worse than what Bill Clinton wanted to do with "don't ask, don't tell" because this has to do with 16-year-old boys. So they covered that up, and that showed a very liberal tendency from some of the leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives."

Let’s talk practical politics for a moment.

Is Weaver trying to run off every voter that is not a lock-stepping right wing-nut in his District?

When it comes to policy Weaver is not much different from the right wing-nut Republicans. But liberals in this District, that’s anyone that is not a right wing-nut, will vote for Weaver just to create a Democratic majority in the House. They don’t support Weaver, but they will tolerate him to get the leadership changed.

About the only thing he did with this comment is piss off a portion of the voters that might vote for him.

What was he thinking with this comment?

A few more like this and he will hand the race back to Lewis. Would someone close to Weaver tell him to shut up and let the Republicans commit suicide in peace?

I just wish that Col. Weaver would quit shooting himself in the foot.