Bauer going up on TV this weekend

The troika of leading Republican gubernatorial candidates all showed more than $1 million on hand as of the last disclosures, and the third-place member of the group, Lt. Gov. André Bauer, is going all the way live with some television ads this weekend. He’ll be the first candidate in the race to purchase TV time.

According to an AP story, the ads will be “message-oriented,” whatever that means. Usually, a candidate leads off with a bio ad that has gauzy pictures of the candidate with their spouse and children. Bauer, being single with no children, can’t pull that stereotype, so it seems like he’s going directly to the second level of ads — ostensibly positive and mapping out policy goals.

We’re willing to bet it’ll deal with his absurd comments about starving stray cats and poor children who have bad parents. When the entire nation reads your comments and exclaims, “What the fuck,” you probably said something very stupid. So, he had two choices — own up and admit you said something foolish, or take it to the bank. He took it to the bank. The story mentions how Bauer said in a recent debate that he promised he wouldn’t be “politically correct.”

Somebody ring a bell, because we just got a loaded phrase, code words to the voters. We grew up around people who, at times, would say that they weren’t going to be “politically correct.” It had nothing to do with a Bill Maher-like (whether liberal or conservative) irreverence. It usually had to deal with race. Now, we think that’s not what it’s about with Bauer. What we do think is the other part attached to uttering the phrase, which is, “I’m mavericky and can act like a total douchebag without compassion for others because that’s what pansy liberals do.”

And that’s a fact, Jack.