GOP backs doctor as write-in for DeLay

Houston City Councilwoman Shelly Sekula-Gibbs chats with reporters before a vote that selected her as the official write-in candidate to run for Rep. Tom Delay's seat after a meeting by Republican precinct chairs at a church in Pearland, Texas Thursday, August 17, 2006.(AP Photo / Michael Stravato)

How about another exciting episode from The Tom DeLay Comedy Hour! This is also from Yahoo News:

PEARLAND, Texas - Texas Republican leaders, unable to replace former Rep.
Tom DeLay's name on the November ballot, sounded confident about the party's chances of holding onto his congressional seat after they voted to support the write-in campaign of a Houston city councilwoman.

Party precinct chairmen from DeLay's 22nd Congressional District met Thursday night and chose Dr. Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, a dermatologist serving her third term on the city council, as the favored Republican candidate.

DeLay, dogged by allegations of money laundering, resigned from Congress a few months after winning the Republican primary. The party wanted to replace him on the Nov. 7 ballot, but the courts ruled against it, leaving the GOP leadership scrambling to find a write-in candidate who could win.

The party faces a tough race against Democrat Nick Lampson, a former congressman. Libertarian Bob Smither also is running.

"Tonight we start the grassroots Republican campaign that this district is well known for," Sekula-Gibbs said. "It is a district that has over 60 percent Republicans and we will turn them out."

Sekula-Gibbs said Friday that the war on terrorism will be a focus of her campaign.

"I have heard from the base that it is critical we support the war on terror and we protect our country from acts of violence against our citizens," she said. "So supporting the president's war on terror is extremely important to me."

The Republicans are really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. They couldn't take DeLay's name off the ballot, so they are trying to get an unknown dermatologist to fill in as a write-in candidate. And what is Sekula-Gibbs' big campaign message for the voters in Sugarland? Why--the Great War on Terror of course! Support the War! Support the president! Democrats such as Nick Lampson are traitors who will surrender to the terrorists!

I don't know about you, but the message is getting pretty stale here. But wait--there's more:

Sekula-Gibbs said she also supports limited government, fair taxation and defining marriage as the union between one man and one woman.

So, Sekula-Gibbs supports limited government (cut all domestic spending except defense and national security), fair taxation (tax cuts for the ubber-rich), and defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman (ban gay marriage, discriminate against gays).

Sekula-Gibbs sounds like a pretty stale candidate.