Okay, that’s not the quote, or anything near it. But the sentiment is right.
Mark Kelly is on his way to beating incumbent Martha McSally and about ready to help switch Arizona from red to blue in the Senate, in under two years. (Kyrsten Sinema beat McSally in 2018.) So you should expect the usual Hail Mary from the Republican smear machine.
Man, talk about projection …
Mark Kelly, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, said he was falsely accused of dressing up for Halloween decades ago as Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator responsible for World War II and the genocide of 6 million Jews.
That last part is for the three people in the world who don’t know who Adolf Hitler was.
National File, a conservative news site, published images Friday asserting the image was Kelly, along with images from a yearbook reportedly dating to the mid-1980s. The site did not quote anyone verifying the images were of Kelly.
Three former classmates of Kelly’s said the photos are not of him. Kelly’s campaign called the article false.
Patrick Howley, the National File reporter, stood by his story.
“I am frankly shocked that Mark Kelly would dare to deny this and at the mainstream media’s inability or unwillingness to do their job and report the truth about the candidates seeking high office in the United States,” Howley said in an emailed statement to The Arizona Republic.
Okay, Pat, what did you expect he’d say? I doubt that Pat did nazi that response coming.
Ah ... not just desperation, but stupidity as well.
UPDATE: I’d forgotten that I’d posted this when I saw it on a sidebar. (It was originally going to be a comment in an open thread.) Thanks for all the recs!