Ok, I usually try to avoid politics on this blog, but this is close to home, so I couldn’t resist writing about it. This guy, George Hutchins, is actually running for Congress in my district. The same district where the very liberal David Price has been our Representative since I learned who our Representative was in grade school. The same district that includes Chapel Hill, a town that our late Senator Jessie Helms suggested be fenced in like a zoo to keep the animals from escaping.
Not only is he running as a gen-u-wine tea-bagging conservative, but he also has the worst website ever. Go on over and take a look. Tell me if that doesn’t make you think GeoCities circa 1994. All that’s missing are the animated GIFs.
I thought this was a parody at first, but apparently this guy is for real. Check out the anti-Obama page, with its pictures of Obama juxtaposed with Fred Sanford from “Sanford & Son.” Or the culture wars page, where he decries the “gay male homosexual,” including James Dean and the dad from “The Brady Bunch.”
I wouldn’t even be aware of this guy if he wasn’t being made fun of all over the Internet. Hey, conservatives, if you want to be taken seriously, here is a case study in exactly how not to do it. This guy gives wingnuts a bad name.
shannon.turlington AT gmail.com 
