In an outrageous ad
aired on the local Washington D.C. NBC affiliate WRC-4, Virginia Democratic
state senate candidate Jennifer Wexton – running to replace newly elected
Virginia attorney general Mark Herring – made a shocking comparison between
violent rapists that she once tried as a prosecutor to "Tea Party Republicans"
in the Virginia legislature. [Listen to the
audio]
After describing women being assaulted and "traumatized again by facing the criminal in court," Wexton made this declaration: "...as a prosecutor I put violent offenders in prison. In the Virginia Senate, I'll fight just as hard against Tea Party Republicans who would take away a woman's health care and her right to choose, even in cases of rape and incest."
When will the media seize on this ad and bemoan the lack of civility in politics? Something they delight in doing when conservatives are the offenders.
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