Is Bowman the New McKinney?
Here's an interesting article on Robert Bowman, the Democratic nominee for Congress from Florida's 15th District.
Politically, Bowman's victory is a potential gift not only to Rep. Dave Weldon, his Republican opponent, but the Republicans as a whole. Bowman could be the new Cynthia McKinney, the Democrat who lost her primary election after an erratic performance that included suggesting that President Bush knew about 9/11 in advance, and fighting with U.S. Capitol police officers. Bowman's victory suggests that the Democratic Party constituency has moved beyond the far-left fringe into the realm of "the matrix." Indeed, someone running a table at the event where Bowman spoke operates a website called www.whatreallyisthematrix.com. If you thought that was only a science fiction movie, think again. We are all slaves, it advises, and you need to take a red pill to enter. No kidding.
posted by Pat @ 1:03 PM
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If you thought that was only a science fiction movie, think again.
He ripped off David Icke.
This Bowman guy may actually be nuts. Get a load of what he said locally (tcpalm.com) about his chances of winning:
"Bowman thought he could win the general election with a budget between $100,000 and $150,000 and even predicted he could defeat Weldon, a six-term congressman, by more than a 2-1 margin."
According to opensecrets.org, Weldon's budget is already over $500,000, and was in the $700-$900K range in previous elections.
So Bowman thinks he can reverse a 2-1 Republican/Democrat ratio in the district, with one-fifth of the budget his opponent has. I'm not a political strategist, but that seems unlikely.
He is one of the few who I actual believe may be clinically INSANE.
This guy's going nowhere. I've been tracking some of the various close races and this race definitely isn't one.
He was a genuinely accomplished man up until about 1982, at which time he seems to have suffered a personal train wreck of an occult nature. The resume appears to have fake snow added to it, but the doctoral degree from Caltech is genuine, the posting to VietNam appears so, as does his assignment to a research and development department with in the Air Force ("Air Force Systems Command") and his corporation employment to 1982. However, he appears not to have held a workaday job in 24 years and has done a number of odd and exhibitionistic things in the interim. There is a story here, quite apart from and likely more affecting than his recent peregrinations.
He was a genuinely accomplished man up until about 1982, at which time he seems to have suffered a personal train wreck of an occult nature.
I can believe that. And Bob Bowman wouldn't be the first highly-educated person to become a wacko conspiracy theorist. It really is a seductive worldview, even to people who ought to know better. Apparently, it has convinced Bob Bowman to reject his lifetime's worth of study. And that's a shame, really.
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