{"id":682431,"date":"2010-03-04T12:11:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T17:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78347"},"modified":"2010-03-04T12:11:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T17:11:18","slug":"%e2%80%98i-am-leading-a-war-against-the-british-empire%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/682431","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Am Leading a War Against the British Empire\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s mostly gallows humor to be had in the campaign of Kesha Rogers, a member of the amazingly resilient Lyndon LaRouche cult who snuck past two mainstream Democrats<\/a> to grab the party’s nomination in TX-22. LaRouche candidates do this from time to time, and they do it surprisingly frequently in the South — the 2004 nominee<\/a> against Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) was a LaRouche cultist. The problem? The sorry state of some local Democratic organizations, who’ve fallen far from the days of one-party rule and can’t find serious candidates to beat the well-organized kooks. (If you want a Texas Democrat to groan, mention the name of Gene Kelley, a deranged lawyer who waged vanity campaign after vanity campaign in Texas counting on voters to mistake him for the late dancer.)<\/span><\/p>\n

But what amuses me about this race is how the LaRouche cult’s semi-coherent ad hominem attacks on President Obama are being packaged as … an Obama campaign lookalike. Click on the Rogers site and you’re greeted by the white Gotham font on blue logo work of the Obama campaign.<\/p>\n

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But read further and you get this:<\/p>\n

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After we impeach Obama, we are going to implement the LaRouche Plan, beginning with a global Glass-Steagall, and full-funding for a Moon-Mars mission, as the essential science driver behind a major commitment to build the modern infrastructure this nation needs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Seriously, that’s what her campaign is about.<\/p>\n

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