Mike McCarville
If trash talk about your opponent equates to victory, Republican Paula Sullivan of Norman should defeat her runoff opponent, Moore businessman Mark McBride, 90 to 10 percent.
Sullivan, who entered the House District 53 race late, on the last day, and her rhetoric sound suspiciously like that spouted by the likes of Al Gerhart, who has proven to be an embarrassment to even the most conservative of Republicans with wild, unproven allegations offered as “fact.”
McBride says Sullivan’s allegations are without foundation.
In Sunday’s The Oklahoman, Capitol Correspondent Michael McNutt quotes Sullivan, who until 18 months ago was a Democrat and Barack Obama supporter:
“He doesn’t come across when you meet him as a very intelligent person. He’s sort of the epitome of what I’d describe as the good old boy that gets up into the Legislature and they just agree with their old cronies. They don’t think for themselves and they don’t make the right decisions because it’s whatever special interests want them to vote a certain way. He doesn’t have the backbone or the intellect to get up there and really make the hard decisions.”
Sullivan noted McBride’s acceptance of a donation from the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce: “He will be just a puppet for them. He will be just a mouthpiece for them.”
McBride, keeping his cool despite Sullivan’s vitriol and the heat, said he has no agenda other than good government coupled with reduced state spending and tax relief.
McBride won 49.2 percent of the primary vote; Sullivan got 38.6 percent.
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“He doesn’t come across when you meet him as a very intelligent person…He doesn’t have the backbone or the intellect to get up there and really make the hard decisions.”
Mrs. Sullivan’s campaign website states that “Paula’s family and her Christian faith are central to her life.”
I don’t have a dog in this fight because it isn’t my district, but the language and insults Mrs. Sullivan uses are beneath the glory of God.
“Be Holy, as I am Holy. (1 Peter 1:16).”
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful (Psalm 139: 13-14).”
“With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be. (James 3:9-10).”
I am really growing weary of “Christians” speaking of others this way (all of whom have been “fearfully and wonderfully made” in the image of God, even those who aren’t believers).
Mrs. Sullivan should try campaigning on the merits of her ideals rather than insults.
I couldn’t agree with you more Jason.
People are tired (or should be) of mudslingers. One has to only read her statements to realize that Mrs. Sullivan is a hypocrite as Jason so accurately points out. Isn’t it sad that someone would rather campaign on things like that rather than highlighting their own ideas for our state? Campaign on what should matter, rather than doing people of this country and state are tired of politicians are doing. Give us something new.
Keep reading…there is a developing story-about-to-be that will help us understand where all her trash talk is coming from. And you likely won’t be surprised.
Paula claims Mark McBride doesn’t have a backbone? This is the woman who was a democrat until 2011, voted for Barack Obama and claimed on her facebook page that she would have voted for Hillary! Who doesn’t have the backbone?
Oh, and the “I’m smarter than Mark” thing that she has going on right now, she needs to think about what she’s getting herself into. This is someone who has never run a business, oh sure, she ran the front office of her husbands business. She is an actor, one of which no-one has ever heard of… Oh, and she has gone to lawschool… But didn’t finish. What exactly is she bringing to the table? Nothing.
Paula, if you should happen to read this and you being the Christian you say you are, you might want to read Phillipines 2:3. It says ” do nothing out of vain conceit or selfish ambition, but in humility consider others better thean yourself.”