The staff of The RECORD was treated to a good laugh this morning when they read a letter to the Kennebec Journal accusing Chandler Woodcock of wanting to set up a theocratic tyranny over the people of Maine.
One of the staff had to run to consult the dictionary to see if this is exactly what Chandler Woodcock wants. He found the following. Webster’s Dictionary defines a theocracy as 1) the rule of a state by God, or a god; 2) a government by priests claiming to rule with divine authority; 3) a country governed in this way; 4) a group of clerics with political power. As far as we know, Woodcock has not yet called for any of these things. Now we can all breathe a sigh of relief.
The letter, though laughable, reveals the strategy the mainstream media plan to use against Woodcock in the upcoming election. Woodcock will be called a dangerous fanatic, a Bible-thumper, a Creationist bumpkin who just crawled out of the Maine woods. Yet this is a dangerous approach for the Left to take, since the majority of Maine people share Woodcock’s beliefs. To call Woodcock backwards is to call the people of Maine backwards.
Sadly, the Kennebec Journal needs to be reminded that it is no sin to believe in the Bible, honest government; and control by the people, not government. By criticizing Woodcock and the people of Maine, the mass media are once again revealing themselves to be elitists who are hopelessly out of touch with the people. Rather than a liability, Woodcock’s background as a Vietnam veteran, a Maine Guide, a basketball coach, and a former school teacher will lead him on to victory in November. Only if Woodcock fails to exploit his deep ties to the people of Maine, will he go down to defeat in November, and rightly so.
It is no coincidence that the letter calling Woodcock a religious fanatic appears in the Kennebec Journal at the start of the Labor Day weekend. Labor Day marks the start of campaigning in earnest, and the letter was intended to be the opening salvo in the effort to label Woodcock as a populist, a man who holds traditional beliefs regarding religion and civic life. If Woodcock is wise, he will embrace the label, rally the people of Maine to his side, and move on to victory in November.
