“It should be a criminal offense to lie or mislead the electorate. Yes, YES!” So declares Mary Peltola, the two-faced, tree-hugging, leftist scoundrel running for Senate in Alaska.
She delivered this sermon to a crowd of Alaskans she has, indubitably, lied to and misled.
On Wednesday, The New York Times published an astonishing admission, one of the cycle’s biggest October surprises. I suspect it pained them beyond all belief, because it makes Democrats look worse than Jamie West after three beers.
According to the Times, Peltola’s campaign scoured the state for any man (or woman — it’s rude to assume gender) named Dan Sullivan willing to run against incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan, all to “dilute the incumbent’s support and help catapult the Democrats to victory.”
This. Is. Batshiz.
Maybe they took inspiration from fellow Democrat John F. Kennedy, whose supporters reportedly recruited a second Joseph Russo to muddy his 1946 congressional primary against, you guessed it, Joseph Russo. Or maybe they’re simply evil hyenas.
We’ll go with the latter.
The Times says the endeavor, which Peltola’s posse dubbed the “ballot composition project,” “involved secret trips to far-flung...