Article Contributed on: 5/15/2008 5:58:32 PM
Republican Bob Schaffer's senate campaign leaped out of the gate and off the side of a mountain this week when his first campaign ad featured the candidate confusing Mount McKinley with Pikes Peak.
In the ad, the Ohio-raised Schaffer cocks his head back toward a mountain in the background behind him while saying that he proposed to his wife on Pike's Peak. But it's actually Mount McKinley in Alaska. The campaign pulled the ad as soon as the error was pointed out (they didn't figure it out themselves), but it's still available through the
miracle of You-Tube.
Political blogs from across the state were
all over the mistake, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee helpfully posted a
"geography quiz" for Schaffer.
Schaffer may want to count his blessings on this one. It's only a gaffe: at worst an indication that he surrounds himself with incompetent people. And for the first time in weeks, the attention is off his long-standing support of Pacific Rim sweatshops where thousands of Chinese women are enslaved. You know, his "model" for how the U.S. should treat immigrant workers. That's a bit of a break for "Silent Bob."