When you lie down with Jack Roeser and his funded enterprises you get the kind of garbage Petey is running on his Republicans for Family Values web site now. He’s attacking a suburban candidate and office holder for having an affair with two different men over the years. (no link–story mentioned by Capitol Fax).
The story below? About Mark Kirk allegedly being gay.
But it’s Andy Martin who is a scumbag. It must be that because Jack Roeser and Petey Labarera are perfectly acceptable sources for stories for many news outlets in Illinois. But if Andy Martin says something he gets condemned.
Of course Andy Martin should be condemned and largely ignored–he’s a loon. The question is why are the people he’s citing in his commercials not being treated as loons? Or people who have been running this rumor for months trying to derail Kirk and now another candidate?
To be clear, most of the Republicans I know including the socially conservatives think Petey is an asshole and nutjob. But he’s still gets plenty of press because he has a point of view to include-even if much of it is based on rumor and innuendo. Will we hear Pat Brady now denounce Jack Roeser and Petey for their dirty politics–or will he sit back and pretend it’s only the Andy Martin’s who are a problem?
I think we know the answer to that.