Don’t Vote for Me, Vote for the Republicans
Tom Parker knows no one believes he deserves to be a Supreme Court Justice and he knows he can’t defeat his Democratic opponent on the merits, so he has decided to just smear the entire Democratic ticket in hopes it will give him a victory.
Parker said President Bush, the Republican standard-bearer, is an outspoken Christian and supports the Christian right’s social agenda, as he does, “in contrast to the pro-abortion and pro-homosexual position of the leaders of the Democratic ticket.”Parker said he isn’t ascribing those views to his Democratic opponent, Robert H. Smith, but he says Smith is “running as a Democrat, knowing what his party stands for.”
Smith says he’s an Alabama Democrat like former chief justices Howell Heflin and Bo Torbert, and isn’t promoting any Washington agenda of the national party. He said his experience handling jury trials and making decisions on appeals “gives me the edge on experience.”
Smith is wrong, he has the edge in every area that should matter to voters. That is why Parker is resorting to the age old tactic of trying to tie state candidates to the positions of national candidates. Tom Parker is a sad, sad man.