It looks like a family holiday card except that the woman and children posing with Republican Derrick Anderson are not his wife or his offspring.

Anderson, who running in a close race for Virginia’s seventh congressional district, was seen in another image seated around the dining table with the same woman and three girls.

The images came to light in an article by The New York Times, headlined “G.O.P. Candidates, Looking to Soften Their Image, Turn to Their Wives,” which reported how “male Republicans struggling to appeal to female voters concerned about their records on reproductive rights are unleashing their spouses to make the pitch on their behalf.”

However Anderson, who is childless, engaged to be married and lives alone with his dog, sought to borrow the wife and children from a longtime friend in an apparent effort to appear as a family man.


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    The perpetuation of the myth that you are less of a person for not having a family or children is absolutely fucking disgusting

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      But it is hilarious when the person perpetrating it does not have a family or children

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      Every single life adds value to the world. Splitting people into groups then discounting those groups as less than or useless is a recipe for failure. Anyone who does not see that is not qualified for a leadership position.

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      Tim Scott gave up the ruse as soon as his Presidential campaign ended. These guys are so stupid and obvious it’s painful.

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    These idiots don’t understand that the internet is a thing that exists despite using it constantly.

    “No one will ever find out that I don’t actually have a family.”

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      The problem isn’t that people will find out. It’s that 99% of their voters are too stupid to think critically about the people they vote for.

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      Best and brightest.

      Republicans have to continually poke fingers at others to detract from their own significant shortcomings.

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    He was breathing fairly easily. It occurred to Ford that he might breathe more easily yet without the weight of his wallet bearing down on his chest, so he slipped it out of Harl’s breast pocket and flipped through it. Fair amount of cash. 55 Credit tokens. Ultragolf club membership. Other club memberships. Photos of someone’s wife and family - presumably Harl’s, but it was hard to be sure these days. Busy executives often didn’t have time for a full-time wife and family and would just rent them for weekends.

    -Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

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      Honestly, I doubted that a fictional writer could be as sleazy and vile and disgusting as reality. I hand it to Douglas Adams for keeping parity, but not for long…

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    Wait, WTF? He’s engaged but the woman he’s misrepresenting as his wife in the photo is somebody other than his fiance? What, did she get creeped out and refuse to do it or something?

    Don’t get me wrong, the whole thing is a big WTF, but that aspect of it is even more WTF-ish than the rest!

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    That’s OK! Republican Voters are KNOWN to do their Own Research and will VERY EASILY find out he Lied!

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    engaged to be married and lives alone with his dog,

    How does that work? Don’t most people cohabitate before marriage? Or is he engaged to his dog?

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      Many people do, but not everyone. Religious people especially tend not to cohabitate before marriage, as that would be considered a sin.

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      What woman would want to marry sometime that felt the need to put his political career over their relationship? Sounds like a match made in heaven

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      Apparently there’s a man in Virginia who will lend you his entire family, but only if it’ll help take away their rights.

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    Republicans being fakeass disgusting idiot degenerates is about as unforeseeable as water being liquid.