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Contrast Important In Tight Senate Race


By Charlie Mitchell
Vicksburg Post

Unlike their counterparts seeking the presidency on Nov. 4, Ronnie Musgrove and Roger Wicker don't contrast as sharply as Barack Obama and John McCain.

Though Musgrove is a Democrat and Wicker is a Republican, both are conservatives on social and fiscal topics.

Both are pro-life. Both are on record against gay marriage. Both oppose gun control. They pass all the litmus tests that have become standards of the so-called religious right.

So far, their parties have done much of the campaigning.

The Republican Party has rolled out a litany against Musgrove's term as governor from 2000 until 2004. It's their standard, moderately distorted stuff: Net loss of 37,000 jobs, $700 million budget hole and a $55 million taxpayer bailout of a failed beef plant whose principals had donated $60,000 to Musgrove.

They don't point out that the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, might have had something to do with the U.S. economy tanking. They don't mention that it was the Legislature that created new programs without funding or that two lawmakers have taken full credit(?) for public funds lost in the Mississippi Beef Processors misadventure at Oakland.


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