Cowards cut and run, Cooters never do

From the honest-we're-not-making-this-stuff-up file, which grows larger each day this election season:

The campaign of Victoria Wulsin - Harvard-educated physician, resident of Indian Hill - has to reach out to voters in a massive congressional district that, once you move beyond Eastgate on State Route 32, is made up of small towns, farmland and the hollers of the Appalachian foothills.

Who, then, to speak to those voters in the pick-up trucks with the gun racks and souped-up cars?

How about a guy from Dukes of Hazzard?

Enter Ben "Cooter" Jones.

Jones played Cooter Davenport, the grease monkey who kept the Duke boys' wheels running; and he later went on to serve a couple of terms as a congressman from Georgia. (If you are curious as to what Cooter is up to these days, check out his website - www.cootersplace.com.)

Now, on country music radio stations from here to Portsmouth (and there are plenty of them), Cooter is doing a radio ad touting Wulsin over Republican incumbent Jean Schmidt.

Cooter's advice: Pay no attention to the Schmidt attack ads.

"Victoria ain't about to raise your taxes or take your guns,'' Cooter says, as only Cooter can.

If it works and Wulsin is elected to Congress, she's still be referred to in print as "D-Indian Hill," not "D-Hazzard."