Former Dallas Mayor and Texas GOP Senate candidate Tom Leppert on Tuesday launched a NCAA-style bracket challenge ripping President Barack Obama’s most controversial policies.
On Leppert’s campaign website, users can pick which Obama policy they dislike the most by filling out a bracket that pits them against each other. There are eight policies Leppert includes for users to pick from on the bracket: Operation Fast and Furious, Solyndra, the Keystone XL pipeline rejection, Obamacare, the contraception mandate, “runaway spending,” the DREAM Act and a $1.9 trillion tax hike proposal.
Leppert’s campaign calls their challenge “Stop the Madness,” a clear parody of Obama’s recently unveiled March Madness basketball challenge.
“There’s a lot of ‘strong’ teams in the field—from ObamaCare and Solyndra to a $1.9 trillion tax hike and record deficit spending—just to name a few,” Leppert’s campaign said in a post accompanying the bracket. “I think you’d agree, President Obama has given our nation a lot of failed policies to choose from as the ‘worst,’ and now you have a chance to make your thoughts be heard loud and clear.”
The campaign says the president’s bracket challenge is really an opportunity for conservatives to point out how Obama is avoiding his record. “While Obama goes on national television to fill out his NCAA Tournament bracket, the Obama Bracket is the chance for conservatives to turn the table on Obama’s empty rhetoric and failed policies,” the Leppert campaign said.
Leppert is one of four major Republicans vying for the party’s nomination to run for outgoing GOP Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s seat. The frontrunner is Texas Lieutenant Gov. David Dewhurst, whose campaign released its own Obama scandals bracket similar to Leppert’s on Wednesday morning. The Dewhurst campaign’s bracket has more Obama administration scandals listed on it and splits them off into regions.