Stan Geiger

Boren Ads

You know, I might well be in favor of a law that would ban all TV ads put forth by candidates for office. They are nothing more than Madison Avenue advertising. They are, as a rule, just plain stupid.

Let's start with Dan Boren, Democrat for the U.S. House.

As far as I'm concerned, anybody named Boren is a douche. Dan makes for the third generation of Oklahoma Borens that have grown fat sucking the public teet. His daddy, Dave, has made sucking the public teet an art form.

Dave is getting close, I'm sure, to retiring from his job as president of the University of Oklahoma. He's lived like a king while holding the job. When he retires, he will begin drawing an educator pension that I figure will be of massive proportions. He's been drawing a public pension for his "servitude" in the U.S. Senate since he left office. Basically, that means he's been drawing a senator's salary for years even though he hasn't been a senator for years. He had a cup of coffee in the State Legislature and did a term as governor, so I'm sure he draws a pension for that, too. Dude, this cat might well be pulling down half a million a year in public pension money in a couple of years.

But I digress.

Dan Boren's political ads seem to say we should vote for him for two reasons. One, he owns a gun. Two, he has a wife and kids.

Yepper, that does it for me! This guy must be some kind of freakin' genius!

Boren's wife, in the wife-and-kids ad, says Dan is such a great family man he comes home every weekend when Congress is in session. She may not realize it, but that's the last thing I want to hear. I mean she identifies her husband as a guy that burns borrowed federal dollars traveling back and forth from Oklahoma to Washington, D.C. on a weekly basis. Marvelous.

I have more to say about stupid, useless, campaign ads. I just figured I'd start with the biggest douche I could find. Stay tuned.

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