Elizabeth Dole goes bananas and loses

As a senator from North Carolina, Elizabeth Dole was the Conservative Fool Of The Day for 4/4/06 because she mailed out a Republican fundraising letter designed to look like an IRS tax form and tried to threaten people into sending in money. The letter didn't go just to GOP cultists but also to other members of the general public.

This was such an obvious case of mail fraud that it's a miracle Dole wasn't hauled straight to jail.

Guess what? Now she's lost her reelection bid just like so many other Republicans. And she deserved it.

As one of the sleaziest political attacks in recent memory, Dole ran an ad attacking her Democratic opponent Kay Hagan (a former Sunday school teacher) by having a person with a similar voice yell, "There is no God!" It was designed to make it sound as if Hagan had said it herself.

Maybe there is a God if Elizabeth Dole lost.