2008 Romney’s Willie Horton?
posted by on November 26 at 9:03 AM
I have a story up on Time.com today that looks at a Washington State double-murder that has Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on the defensive.
The suspect in the Nov. 17 double-murder is Daniel Tavares Jr., who previously served 16 years in a maximum security prison in Massachusetts for murdering his mother. When his sentence ended last year, prosecutors in Massachusetts tried to keep Tavares locked up based on allegations that he’d recently attacked two prison guards. However, a judge appointed by Romney while he was governor of the state decided to let Tavares go free, at which point Tavares apparently moved across the country to Graham, Washington, where he allegedly murdered Brian Mauck, 30, and Beverly Mauck, 28. The motive? Possibly a $50 debt.
Giuliani is pouncing and pulling what he thinks are damning FBI statistics out of his pocket; Romney is calling on the judge to resign while also attacking Giuliani back; and a spokesman for the victims’ families tells me:
This is now a huge issue for me in the presidential election. Something has to be done about this.
It’s not hard to see shades of Willie Horton in this incident. Although, as a friend just pointed out to me, this is Daniel Tavares Jr:
And this is Willie Horton:
That Willy Horton video is really interesting. I've heard it mentioned in the press but have never seen it (or when I saw it, it didn't mean anything to me because I had other pressing matters like a plastic horse with a really long purple mane.)
The Republicans had it dialed in way back then. Way to go scum-bag Republicans!
One important difference: Tavares isn't black.
Tavares is of Portuguese ancestry! This is a RACIST ATTACK! ARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!
Interesting. But I think Guiliani risks losing the guys-with-neck-tattoos vote.
at least the blatantly negative fear-tactic campaigning has less of a racial element to it... welcome to 2008!
Reminds me of the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy's song, "Television":
It's the perpetuation of the two party system / where image takes precedence over wisdom / Where sound bite politics are served to the fast food culture / Where straight teeth in your mouth / are more important than the words that come out of it / Race baiting is the way to get selected / Willie Horton or / Will he not get elected on... / Television, the drug of the Nation / Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation.
And of course, the networks have been having a field day with the story.
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