#Elxn42: In Which Jason Kenney Makes Like Lyndon Johnson...

.....1948 Edition.

"He was sunk in despair. He was desperate... he called his equally depressed campaign manager and instructed him to.....accuse his high-riding opponent (the pig farmer) of having routine carnal knowledge of his barnyard sows, despite the pleas of his wife and children... His campaign manager was shocked. 'We can't say that, Lyndon,' he said. 'It's not true.' 'Of course it's not,' Johnson barked at him, 'but let's make the bastard deny it.'..."

Hunter Thompson, on Lyndon Johnson's 1948 Congressional Campaign.

And what does this have to do with Mr. Kenney in the here and now?

Well.

There is this, from Saturday:

A Conservative candidate appears to be falsely claiming Liberal leader Justin Trudeau wants to legalize brothels...

{snippety doodle dandy}

...“He wants to force communities to accept brothels,” (Jason) Kenney said. “We don’t think the values of most Canadians include having to put up with heroin injection sites imposed on their communities against their will, or to have brothels operating in their neighbourhoods against their will.”....


It's like we said earlier.

This is nothing but contempt for the 67% percent.

And, of course, it is also a dog whistle for the base, sounded in a desperate (and simultaneously calculated) attempt to get back up to 33-and-a-third.


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