Though Cawthorn leads in the polls, Edwards’ challenge has led Cawthorn to try to induce amnesia in mountain voters.\u00a0 He wants us to forget: his support for the January 6 rioters; his disdain for Ukraine’s “thug” president; his attempt to board a plane with a loaded gun in his carry-on; his driving with a revoked license, twice; his alleged invitation to orgies in the capital; his twisting the stories of the car crash that crippled him and his rejection by the Naval Academy.\u00a0 You can look it all up — the internet remembers even if voters forget.<\/p>\n
Cawthorn’s amnesia strategy involves something I don’t recall him doing explicitly in his 2020 campaign, that is, using his handicapped status to pander to voters.\u00a0 While Cawthorn did use his car crash as a false excuse for not attending Naval Academy, that seemed more like lying than sympathy-seeking.\u00a0 But one look at this Cawthorn campaign sign installed on the median of US 25\/70 near Weaverville shows that he has now gone full-tilt pander:<\/p>\n
Cawthorn’s new primary campaign symbol is not a flag — or a cracked Capitol dome — but a white man in a wheelchair.\u00a0 Who could vote against “Ironside” Cawthorn, the white man in the wheelchair?<\/p>\n Surely, a white man in a wheelchair had to surmount many more life-challenges than, say, an ordinary Joe (or Chuck in this case) who went from flipping burgers to owning his own chain of McDonalds.\u00a0 At least that’s the message I think Cawthorn wants to sell us here.<\/p>\n I hope Cawthorn does win the Republican primary, as I believe that a Democrat would fare better against him than against other Republicans in November.\u00a0 My premise is, Cawthorn will lose more votes due to the wing-nut factor than he stands to gain as a Trump suck-up or as a pitiful — but not pitied — young man.<\/p>\n On the other hand, one should never underestimate the power of mountain values in the little state I live in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You may have heard of Madison Cawthorn, 26, the man who currently “represents” those who live in North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District, which includes me.\u00a0 Our district is not very diverse (86% white) and not overly educated (about 25% have … Continue reading ![\"Madison](\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/cawth_9729.jpg\" "\\"Madison")
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