When the Tennessee Republican party runs an ad featuring “regular Americans” in an ad going after Democratic likely Presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama’s wife Michelle, they apparently don’t fool around.
But one of the “regular Americans” featured in the ad apparently once owned a place where some fooling around might conceivably have taken place: the Nashville Post’s Post Politics blog cites an article noting one of the people featured is a former stip club owner.
The Post’s blogger A.J. Kleinheider writes:
While the “leave me alone” coalition has a strong history inside the Republican Party, the TNGOP has not really been known for its laissez faire attitude on moral issues.
Moderate Senators Corker and Alexander have already rebuked the state party for this video. Will this new revelation about Bob Pope lead those on the theocratic right to express their misgivings as well?
On the other hand, having once owned a strip club does make someone a “real” American (the opposite being an “unreal” American, which of course would be those who support Obama even though his wife once said something politically unwise that has been whipped up in an effort to obscure other minor issues that people running for office might debate in detail such as solutions to improve the economy, long-range strategy for the war in Iraq, energy policy, massive home foreclosures — trifles such as those).
After all, lots of real Americans have owned strip clubs.
It’s American as apple pie with a Hustler magazine stuffed inside.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.