Have some pity, if you will, for longshot conservative GOP Senate contender Chuck DeVore. DeVore is no recent convert to the whole teabagger thing, and he has watched while teabagger candidates have been ascendant in Republican primaries all around America.
Everywhere, it would seem, except for his home state of California.
Since former Republican Congressman Tom Campbell made the decision to switch races and give up a gubernatorial bid in favor of a Senate bid, DeVore has consistently ranked third in the GOP primary, behind Campbell and multimillionaire Carly Fiorina.
That has left DeVore grasping for thin reeds upon which to justify his candidacy. Including, in his most recent efforts, claiming an endorsement from a right-wing hero. One that, sadly, does not exist in real life:
Chuck DeVore, a California state legislator and Tea Party-backed candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, has a new Web video claiming that "Jack Bauer," the protagonist of the action-adventure show 24, would support him for Senate.
"Ask yourself this question, Jack Bauer fans: Which person would Jack want as his U.S. Senator?" the announcer says.
Sweet. Lord.
Let's leave alone, for the moment, the hilarity of a serious Senate candidate claiming an endorsement from a television character (c'mon, Chuck...let's explore this further...who do you think Stewie Griffin would endorse?).
As Eric Kleefeld of TPMDC notes, the actor who portrays Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) is the grandson of one of the architects of single-payer health care in Canada, and Sutherland is also a supporter of the left-of-center NDP in Canada.
So, it's bad enough that DeVore thinks Jack Bauer is in his corner. What's worse--it's not even accurate.
Comedy gold: always on the menu in an election year!
UPDATE: Great catch in the comments by Scarce, who notes that Sutherland, as recently as last year, gave a five-figure donation to the DNC.
