senate campaign

And the wingnuts all get it wrong. It wasn’t some “leftist plot” or outsiders involved:

A volunteer with Rand Paul's Senate campaign has admitted to placing his shoe firmly on the face of a MoveOn.org volunteer outside a Senate debate on Monday night, but insisted that the camera angle of the footage that captured the altercation made the scuffle look worse than it was.

Tim Profitt apologized for the incident in a statement sent to a local AP reporter. But he also criticized the police for not stepping in to calm down the crowd and argued that other supporters had previously warned authorities about the MoveOn activist, Lauren Valle.

Profitt is not, it appears, a random campaign volunteer. As the local blog Barefoot and Progressive noted, the Paul campaign touted his endorsement at the bottom of an ad they had taken out in a Bourbon County paper.

According to TPM the Paul campaign has severed ties with Profitt and the HuffPo adds:

A spokesman for the Lexington Police Department said that "Mr. Profitt is currently being served with a criminal summons ordering him to appear before a Fayette County District Court Judge."

So it appears now that Profitt may be facing criminal charges. Perhaps that explains a sudden Facebook scrubbing. Here’s a cached version of a FB “Rally with Jim DeMint, Ron Paul, and Rand Paul” event from earlier this month:

McCain is such a straight and honest guy, really:

Sen. John McCain championed legislation that will let an Arizona rancher trade remote grassland and ponderosa pine forest here for acres of valuable federally owned property that is ready for development, a land swap that now stands to directly benefit one of his top presidential campaign fundraisers].

Initially reluctant to support the swap, the Arizona Republican became a key figure in pushing the deal through Congress after the rancher and his partners hired lobbyists that included McCain's 1992 Senate campaign manager, two of his former Senate staff members (one of whom has returned as his chief of staff), and an Arizona insider who was a major McCain donor and is now bundling campaign checks.

When McCain's legislation passed in November 2005, the ranch owner gave the job of building as many as 12,000 homes to SunCor Development, a firm in Tempe, Ariz., run by Steven A. Betts, a longtime McCain supporter who has raised more than $100,000 for the presumptive Republican nominee. Betts said he and McCain never discussed the deal

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Legislating for cash in return and lobbyists! I thought McCain was against such things? Oh he is when it's other people doing it. McCain can do whatever he wants though. Doesn't that sound like someone else we know?

Today was a rather interesting day in the blogosphere. It appears that Susan Collin's people are upset that citizens are video taping her at public rally's. As matter of fact, this was posted today on Maine Web Report:

Markos Moulitsas’s hate-site The Daily Kos, the foul-mouthed fem-blog FiredogLake, and other ‘netroots’ extremists like MoveOn.org, have become the dominant fundraisers for Tom Allen’s senate campaign. This may be good news for Allen financially, but allowing these fringe fanatics to take over his campaign is creating a political atmosphere that will undoubtedly be rejected by Maine voters come next November.

Tom Allen’s involvement with these groups, particularly his participation in the website The Daily Kos, came onto the radar screen of Maine voters recently, as national media exposed a pattern of hateful, vulgar, and anti-semitic postings on the site. Now Allen’s extremist friends have landed on the ground in Maine, and are engaging in the same childish bullying campaign tactics that made Connecticut voters reject their attempts to unseat Senator Joe Lieberman in 2006.

Simply put this is the right wingers in melt down. American citizens aren't allowed to video tape public officials? Well then how can FOX news send their crews out to stalk people, who aren't public officials?

But this story gets even better. There have been several comments posted on this blog, but one stuck out at me. Let's see how a typical wingnut supports Collins:

Via MSNBC

He swore and walked off set during a debate with James Carville

The Associated Press

Updated: 7:34 p.m. ET Aug. 4, 2005

NEW YORK - CNN suspended commentator Robert Novak indefinitely after he swore and walked off the set Thursday during a debate with Democratic operative James Carville.

The exchange during CNN’s “Inside Edition” came during a discussion of Florida’s Senate campaign. But CNN correspondent Ed Henry noted when it was through that he had been about to ask Novak about his role in the investigation of the leak of a CIA officer’s identity.

A CNN spokeswoman, Edie Emery, called Novak’s behavior “inexcusable and unacceptable.” Novak has apologized to CNN, and CNN apologizes to viewers, she said.

“We’ve asked Mr. Novak to take some time off,” she said.

A telephone message at Novak’s office was not immediately returned Thursday.

Carrville and Novak were both trying to speak while they were handicapping the GOP candidacy of Katherine Harris. Novak said the opposition of the Republican establishment in Florida might not be fatal for her.

“Let me just finish, James, please,” Novak continued. “I know you hate to hear me, but you have to.”

Carville, addressing the camera, said: “He’s got to show these right wingers that he’s got a backbone, you know. It’s why the Wall Street Journal editorial page is watching you. Show ’em that you’re tough.”