Just plain weird

Today, the Drudge Report has an article headlined: "TWO DEM CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES GO ON HUNGER STRIKE -- ONE GETS ENEMA... " Even for Drudge, that is a weird headline. I read the article, however, and it is a fair summary of its contents. It seems that in a Republican District in California, the Democrat and the Libertarian are trying a hunger strike to get the sitting congressman to agree to debates earlier than October. So they are starving themselves to change the timing of the debates. I am not a political consultant, but I would think that any adviser would tell them that a stunt like this is not likely to get them too many votes. What will the Bumper stickers say? How about "Vote for _____ or he will kill himself." It is like the old ads (in many variants) that said "buy this magazine or we will kill this puppy." I think those ads were for Mad Magazine, but this congressional race seems to fit right in there.