Political Fratricide! Meet The Woodhouse Family
So you think your family fights about politics? Here’s a diverting little tale about a family that has it worse than you do.
Meet the Woodhouse brothers — Brad and Dallas. Both from North Carolina, they don’t just bicker about politics in typical family fashion. They’re now running ads against each other.
If you don’t know Brad Woodhouse, you should. He’s emerging as a key player in the growing world of lefty groups teaming up to raise big bucks in order to run new TV ads that push Obama’s stimulus package and pummel its GOP opponents.
This gig has now put Brad in direct conflict with his brother.
One of the ads being run by Brad’s outfit, the labor-backed Americans United for Change, hits GOP Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina for opposing the stim package.
Dallas, it turns out, runs a conservative non-profit in North Carolina, Americans for Prosperity, which is running an ad targeting Dem Senator Kay Hagan for backing the package.
This fratricidal battle for the North Carolina airwaves, not surprisingly, is creating a bit of tension in the family. Dallas, in an email, tells me that his brother is a “raging leftist,” adding: “While I love my brother, I am committed to trying to defeat everything he ever works for.”
Brad, for his part, jokes that his brother is “just a nasty, angry, mean spirited backwards looking wingnut.”
“He’s been an unrepentant right winger for as long as I can remember,” Brad says. “Of course, my wife is, too, so I’m somewhat surrounded.”
All I can say is that I’m not going to spend Thanksgiving at the Woodhouse home any time soon.
All I can say is that I’m not going to spend Thanksgiving at the Woodhouse home any time soon
Jeez, Greg -have you no Thanksgiving spirit? I thought that was the point of Thanksgiving: To get the family together and fight.
Thats a damm shame. But the responses show the difference between liberals and conservatives by in large. Conservatives are angry combative a$$holes and liberals are able to laugh at them while kicking their ***. I wonder what Brad’s brother is going to do after Hagan votes for it and it gets passed. He better hold his tongue because the way politics is looking nowadays being a Republican strategist isn’t going to be paying too well in the years to come. He might end up having to act his lefty librul brother for some help.
Tena! You feeling better? and interesting, sg. I wonder, though, whether being in the opposition is financially a boon to groups like that run by Dallas…
You’d be welcome to stuffing and cranberries up north, Greg. When Pierre Trudeau first ran for PM in Canada, I was too young to vote but not to enthusiastically support the man. My dad, however, was a staunch NDPer. Through that election, our front lawn displayed two huge signs for competing parties.
Tena and Greg! I found you!!!!!! TPM hasn’t been the same……..the same old blah blah blah….
phew.
kathleen
On second thought, I suppose I ought to temper that “Canadians are SO polite” romanticism above with the admission that had one of my siblings been rooting for the Progressive Conservative Party, dad and I probably would have done him with a weed-eater.
Greg
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I would think that would be predicated on whether those oppo firms were effective. Judging by the poll numbers you posted on, it doesn’t seem that they were. And I mean seriously, running ads AGAINST a stimulus bill? Probably not the smartest thing the Republicans have ever done.
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But then again Mike Steele went on Tee Vee yesterday and said construction jobs and government jobs (people who make up the blue collar grass roots of this country many of whom traditionally vote Republican) were not real jobs so I guess that lack of awareness is prevalent throughout the Republican party.
No stimulus petition, watch here
Recommend!
Tena! You feeling better?
Better – still not great. It’s an epidemic here – schools have closed and doctors are slammed. Fifty cases of flu and strep throat a day are walking into doctors’ offices here.
Jokes that his bro is a rightwingnut? Sounds like – all joking aside – he really is a wingnut.
I’m Mr. right-winger, I’m Mr. bucks,
I’m Mr. filibuster, I’m Mr. Bush tax cuts,
Friends call me right-winger, whatever I touch
Turns to **** at my touch
I’m too much
I’m Mr. Democrat, the Kicking ***,
I’m Mr. pragmatism, I’m Mr. middle class
Friends think I’m left-wing, but whatever I touch
Turns lukewarm at my touch
I’m too little
rm – I bow in your general direction. That’s a hell of a rhyme you dropped there.
conservative non-profit[...]Americans for Prosperity
Beyond the stupid name (is there an “Americans Against Prosperity”?), this sham organization is as funny to me as all those non-profit organs of the free market, like the National Review, Reason and The American Spectator who can’t hack the actual free market and make profits.
I have to admit, I have a hard time imagining how to live with a wife who is diametrically opposed to you politically. I must be a little less tolerant than some, that would be a deal breaker for me.
Ugh… his wife is a wingnut too? A divorce will eliminate half the problem. We may not pick our family, but we can sure as heck do a better job at picking our mates.