Upset! Sam Graves isn’t the sleaziest campaigner

Sam Graves, as it turns out, isn’t sleazier than John McCain or Liddy Dole. It’s not for lack of trying — see Graves’ abortion-loving, interracial, San Francisco sodomite wet dream:

Graves’ homophobic campaign ads

finished third — third?!? — in Talking Points Memo’s Golden Duke

Awards. I totally thought Graves had this one; the ads were good enough to win a 2008 Best Of Kansas City award from The Pitch. But our endorsement couldn’t propel Graves’ ads above Dole’s “godless atheists” or John McCain’s Obama-wants-to-teach-kindergartners-how-to-fornicate ads.