As an expat Alabamian, I know that Alabama has some of the most highly-evolved rightwing politics in the world, and it has been ever thus since long before George Corley Wallace put us on the map. (We were, after all the first capital of the Confederacy, but that didnt have anything to do with slaves, because some of our best friends were slaves.)
But the new flurry of ads coming out of the Yellowhammer State (Rammer jammer yellowhammer give em hell Alabama!) shows that our evolution continues apace.
First, you have got to see the original ad, which would make Ronald Reagan weep with pride.
It's not just the gun (which he waves around like a man who has never held one or learned the rules of gun safety) or the horse (who appears to have a comment or two up his sleeve) or the fact that an Alabama ag commissioner needs neither a gun nor a horse. It's not the way he spits out the word "illegals" with the same venom you know he used to reserve for the word n***er.
It's all of it, taken together. Follow me below the fold to see the original video, and a wonderful parody response.
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The only thing increasing faster than the flow of "illegals" into Alabama is the flow of parodic response to the silliest ads of the campaign season. Check out this one...
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