You learned this from Top Gun, didn’t you? Well, blogger Curtis Coleman, who has announced his intention to run for the U.S. Senate as a Republican in 2010, should have. His defense of his comments yesterday whereby he said that you needed to be vaccinated before traveling to southeast Arkansas is certainly a lesson in what not to do.
This from Zack Stovall at the Arkansas News Bureau,
But Coleman said he was trying to “accentuate or maybe even celebrate the enormous diversity we have in Arkansas.”
“I’ve done a lot of international traveling since the 70’s, and when going to a new and different land, you had to have a visa and shots. I only meant it to show the tremendous differences you see from one corner of the state to the other. I love Southeast Arkansas and meant it only as a metaphor,” he said.
Mr. Coleman needs to invite those former Mike Huckabee staffers he has on the payroll to meeting where he tests his metophors and his jokes. And then, after they bombard him tomatoes, he’ll learn to stick to his talking points.
uh huh. sure thing Mr. Coleman. Implying that you can catch rare, exotic, and fatal diseases, (many that are caused by substandard drinking water and infrastructure) is such a great thing,
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