NY: GOP Conspiracy Theories Featured in New Ad Attacking Third Party Candidate

From Roll Call:

After largely ignoring third-party candidate Jack Davis in her first round of television ads, Republican nominee Jane Corwin is attacking the former Democrat as “the hand-picked candidate of Nancy Pelosi” in a 30-second television spot that began airing across the district today. The ad is her first since a public poll showed Corwin leading Democrat Kathy Hochul by just 5 points, 36 percent to 31 percent. Her lead would be far larger without the presence of Davis, a Congressional candidate with a history of switching parties who will appear on the May 24 ballot under the “Tea Party” line. Davis pulled 23 percent in the poll. “Davis was a handpicked candidate of Nancy Pelosi, and said he was proud to help her become Speaker,” says the narrator in the new ad.

The ideology that sustains the two-party state resembles nothing so much as a vapid conspiracy theory. This often appear to be just as true of the brain dead followers of the Democratic party as it is for the brain dead followers of the GOP. 

MA: Democrats See Evil Conspiracy in Independent's Bid for Congress

Like their Republican counterparts, many Democrats suffer from paranoid delusions. From the Boston Globe:

James A. Sheets has campaigned for Congress before and lost. That was 32 years ago. He last ran for office nine years ago when he was denied by 17 votes an extension of his 12-year reign as mayor of Quincy. Now 75, he has shed his lifelong Democratic Party affiliation to run for Congress again, this time as an independent, for the open 10th Congressional District seat. . . .

But some Democratic operatives believe there is something more mischievous going on. They fear he is running to siphon away Democratic votes in the Nov. 2 election in Quincy, a blue-collar, heavily Democratic city, which usually accounts for more than 10 percent of the turnout in a district that snakes along the South Shore to Cape Cod and the Islands.