Well, Heath Shuler relaunched his campaign website today, and, objectively speaking, it is a big improvement (unless you liked white text on a red background). We think it’s great that he has a blog, although we were a bit disappointed that the "Multimedia" section didn’t have video clips of all 33 of his NFL interceptions.

But nothing could have prepared us for the flash animation on the home page. For those of you who don’t have the patience to sit through it, this is what it says:

Great Character (pause)
Great Work Ethic (pause)
Great Vision (pause)
Great Leadership Skills (pause)
Am I Describing a Great Quarterback (pause)
Or a US Congressman?
  – Coach David Cutcliffe on Heath Shuler

WHAA??? The words "great quarterback" and "Heath Shuler" should never be used in close proximity, unless it is something like, "unlike great quarterbacks, Heath Shuler…" Here at Stop Shuler HQ, we were stunned. Dumbfounded even. We even went so far to post a comment on the Shuler blog expressing our shock and dismay. To their credit, they are not moderating comments, so it went right up (we’ll see if it stays there).

As we said in our comment on his site, we’re sure he has a lot of positives to run on (we, of course, know only of the 1994-1996 Heath Shuler, so can’t think of any), but being a great quarterback isn’t one of them. Maybe what they meant was, "Shuler’s obviously not a great quarterback, so we must be describing a US Congressman." We just can’t figure it out.

We think we are going to go watch the 1991 Redskins highlight film to calm down. We love watching Jim Kelly get knocked around…