Several Senate debates and campaigns around the country Thursday night were stunning for their incivility and audacity. Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott Brown is currently running an ad featuring a “union construction worker” who, it turns out, calls President Obama a “faggot” and Brown’s opponent consumer advocate Professor Elizabeth Warren a “douchebag” on his Facebook page. Ohio progressive Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown responded to his baby-face opponent state Treasurer Josh Mandel calling him a liar by “citing Mandel’s six “Pants on Fire” designations from PolitiFact for false ad claims,” the Huffington Post reported. “Being called a liar by the winner of the pants on fire crown is remarkable,” Brown said. “”He goes lower and lower.” But lower than that was the comment by Illinois Tea Party darling Republican Rep. Joe Walsh after his heated debate with opponent Democrat Tammy Duckworth during which he said he opposed abortion without exception. Walsh told reporters: “There’s no such exception as life of the mother. And as far as health of the mother – same thing. Advances in science and technology. Health of the mother has been, has become a tool for abortions any time and for any reason.”
Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, openly gay Rep. Tammy Baldwin, who is seeking to become the first openly LGBT person elected to the US Senate, debated grousing Republican former Gov. Tommy Thompson, whose son recently suggested that the Nov. 6 election could return Obama to Kenya. In the news coverage below, the reporter points out that Thompson “said he wants to protect Medicare, despite campaign attack ads that show him saying no one was better to end it.” See Thompson make those comments directly in the video following the news report, in which he says: “Who better than me, that’s already finished one of the entitlement programs, to come up with programs to do away with Medicaid and Medicare?”
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