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SIGN OF THE TIMES: I just got an email from Democrat Roy Herron, who?s running for John Tanner?s se?

By Glenn Reynolds

SIGN OF THE TIMES: I just got an email from Democrat Roy Herron, who’s running for John Tanner’s seat in Tennessee. Here’s the key bit:

My top three priorities in Washington will be fiscal responsibility, fiscal responsibility, and fiscal responsibility.

Washington is mortgaging the future of my sons and your children and our grandchildren. And Washington is risking the future of this country with trillions in debt.

I drive a 12-year-old truck with 375,000 miles on it. My sons call me cheap, but Washington needs more of us with 375,000-mile pickups who?ll spend your money like our own.

Sounding more like Scott Brown than Barack Obama . . . . And who’s this “Washington” he’s running against, exactly? . . .

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 17, 2010 (boomark / email).