I...genuinely cannot think of another time when a candidate for office did something like this, but a GOP candidate in Virginia has decided to start airing ads touting his family credentials.

There's just one little problem.

family credentials

It's not his family. He's not married, and he doesn't have kids, so he just borrowed them from someone else.

like he has released entire ads with them

'in a photo with the wife and children of a longtime friend' LOLOLOLOLOL

I see we've brought swinging back in a new and very strange form

did he ask anyone's permission

Ayasugi_san: I can only assume so

probably the wife and friend. The kids? probably no

oh sorry, it gets weirder

he's NOT single, he's just unmarried

and for some reason he just.......ran ads with his friend's family instead of with his fiancee.

...

What. The. Fuck.

Good luck with that turning out, buddy

the fuck???

somehow this is more weird than if he'd like hired actors or something

"I need kids. right away"

that screenshot really helps underline why this is so weird. 'the proliferation of women and families in campaigns this season...' That's just icky.

it's the NYT in that screenshot, so. Disappointing, but not unexpected.

They're sane-washing Trump and the GOP this round

... that was a choice