Dirt Diver / Kansas

I feel pretty crappy about kicking Rob Wasinger’s teeth in again, but unfortunately it has to be done.   Before I put boots to bicuspids, though, I want to first qualify my remarks – I respect Rob Wasinger for a lot of reasons, but after today I don’t think he has what it takes at this time to be a Congressman.

His last shred of credibility was severed today when an Official Wasinger for Congress email landed in the Dirt Diver email inbox.  After wading through the hyperbolic political rhetoric calculated to to capitalize on the Big First’s vast supply of Rush Limbaugh fans (nothing wrong with that, by the way), the email made two astounding statements.  The first statement left me dumbfounded at first, then after I recovered my wits I realized, this guy is either stupid, or he thinks we are…there’s really no other explanation.  Here’s what his email said:

I will build coalitions and filibuster any bill that results in higher taxes, more spending, hurts our national security, or attacks core family values.

Did you catch it?  No?  Look again:

I will…filibuster any bill…

Now do you see it?

A filibuster is a procedural tactic used in the United States Senate.  But Rob Wasinger is running for the House of Representatives, which hasn’t allowed filibusters since 1842…so either Rob doesn’t know what he’s talking about, or he just thinks you’re too dumb to know the difference.

Unfortunately for Mr. Wasinger, that’s not the only glaring item in his email.  Did you also know Rob Wasinger was behind the nomination of Samuel Alito in the Supreme Court?

It’s true, just ask Rob.  Here’s what he says about it:

I led the behind-the-scenes effort to take [Harriet Miers] down and now we have Justice Samuel Alito.

Groan.  Come on, Rob…I’m just a bit skeptical that you – YOU – “led the behind the scenes effort.”  Are you sure it wasn’t Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society?  Rush Limbaugh?  A nation of raging mad conservative Bush donors who contacted the President?  Come on, dude.  You either take yourself way too seriously, or you think your fellow Kansans are just a bunch of rubes who will believe your stories, fall to our knees and pledge allegiance to the second coming of Ronald Reagan.

In my humble opinion, today’s email proves that Wasinger and / or his campaign staff is not exactly ready for prime time.

All that aside, it’s not easy to run a Congressional campaign, period.  But in Rob Wasinger’s case, he had to sell his home in Burke, Virginia, and relocate his wife and 9 or 10 kids to Kansas (congrats on all those kids, Rob, all kidding aside, big families are pretty cool and America needs more of ‘em).  Rob Wasinger took a major risk in coming back to Kansas – he surely could have landed another job on Capitol Hill.  But alas, he decided he was the best man to fill the shoes of Jerry Moran in the Big First, and that’s when trouble began.

My advice?  Pack it in, throw your support behind one of the other candidates, and start trying to re-establish your Sunflower State bona fides.   In a few years, you’ll be fully restored to non-carpetbagger status and you’ll have purged that “Washington D.C. stupid” out of your bloodstream too.

Here’s a screen-cap of the Diver’s email from Team Wasinger this afternoon: