The ShamWow Guy Is Running for Congress… Seriously

This guy, Remember this guy? This guy was an infomercial guru, shamwow. His name is Vince Shlomy and he claims he's running for Congress, believe it or not. But you'll never guess what his issue is and what it's going to be in. In 2026, believe it or not. Okay, I've got to share this. I thought I was in a time capsule. I thought that perhaps I had picked up a story from three or four years ago. But this guy, Vince Shlomi, forgive me if he's. If I'm mispronouncing his name, he used to be very well known in infomercials. He's running for Congress in Texas, according to a filing with the state's Republican Party. He's running against an incumbent John Carter, who's 84 years old. Okay, I don't think he's the John Carter. He's in all the movies at 84 years old. He's older than Biden at this point. He's older than Trump and. And maybe, just maybe it's time to move on. That's the sentiment, apparently, of Vince the infomercial guy. But here's what caught my eye. He said in 2025, this is the Shamwell towel guy. He told Fox News he's running for Congress because he, quote, wants to destroy wokeism in Congress. He wants to destroy wokeism in Congress because apparently they. There's so much wokeism in the current Congress was controlled entirely by Republicans in the House and Republicans in the Senate, most of whom have been running against this phantom boogeyman of wokeism for a long time now. And he's motivated by, quote, the political infighting in the country to run and he wants to make America happy. I gotta tell you, I've seen some really awful campaign announcements and messages in my time, having worked with a lot of political candidates, not only in the United States, but around the world. But you. But you always have to look at every. Any campaign in the context of its time period. Something that worked in 2008 doesn't necessarily work in 2016. Something that worked in 1988 doesn't necessarily. I was reminiscing with a friend just the other day about 1984 in North Carolina, where I grew up. And so saying, hey, Jim Hunt, he's a Mondale liberal. That used to be the big attack. Before everyone was called a communist or member of the radical left. They were called a Mondale liberal. That was supposed to be the ultimate burn. If you are Republican running against a centrist Democrat or even a conservative Democrat. It worked. So that has kind of morphed into being too politically correct, being a part of the left, the radical left. And then things sort of settled the last half a dozen years on woke. I think initially it was a reaction very specifically to things like certain academics saying you should always identify your gender because someone could see themselves as a they and as non binary. And if you didn't all automatically say I'm a him or I'm a her, you're insensitive. And so it that started to define what WOKE is, but since then it has morphed into this gigantic gooey blanket tossed on essentially anything conservatives don't like, to the point where I would argue it is an absolutely meaningless term other than it has come to represent intolerance. And therefore you could say that there is a real problem with wokeism today, but it's right wing wokeism on campuses around the country. We've documented that right here, unfiltered in the case of certain words not being able to be used, like global warming or environment. You know, the environment even you can't say it. Race, you can't say in certain colleges and high schools and elementary schools in America. So there is a problem with wokeism, but I don't think that's what the shamwow guy is talking about. So again, if we were back in the day when the Democrats still controlled Congress and sort of the peak of wokeism, arguably, say 2020, you could make the case that maybe he had a good message. But you kind of get the sense that this guy has been watching nothing but infomercials and sort of looked at an old speech by Ron DeSantis from a year and a half ago and said, oh, that sounds like a good topic. I'm a marketing guy, let me market myself on this. Seems like a hot topic. And you're several years too late now. Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida, really got big on this about three, four years ago. He said, this is my ticket, I'll be the next Trump if I can just talk about how I kill wokeism. And I'm the guy who destroyed WOKE in Florida memorably. He said Florida is going to be the place where Woke came to die. And he beat his chest about how tough he was on being anti woke. And he ran for president last year and guess what? Nobody liked it. He got about one and a half votes the entire campaign and he embarrassed himself. So now we got a guy who says, okay, it's a year and a half later, it's the next election cycle. It would be two years later, 2026 and Shamwow guy wants to run for Congress because it is controlled by I guess, radical left wokeism. If that's what you consider Mike Johnson. I do hope some reporter, Fox News won't do it, but I hope some real reporter will ask him exactly who are the people writing all these woke laws from the Congress. Especially in the last two years when it's been a Republican anti woke speaker of the House, Republican anti woke leader of the Senate, a Republican anti woke President who signs or vetoes legislation. So at some point good messages have to have some internal consistency. They can be wildly inconsistent to other people who have different premises. But there's got to be some form of internal consistency and I don't see it here at all. Now some fun facts about this guy, Ben Shlomo. He was arrested for for aggravated battery after a fight with a woman who was also arrested back in 2009. Now given Pete Hegseth and a lot of other credentials of top members of this administration, I guess arguably you could say that's a plus in his favor. Maybe that helps him get an endorsement from Trump earlier. I don't know. The fact that you have been arrested for battering a woman, I think in the current climate in at least one political party is an advantage. So whether he's able to milk that all the way to Congress, I don't know. I will say that he certainly appears to be much younger than the 84 year old. And many people across the spectrum, and I count myself in on this too, do think it's time for more young people for politics. And by young I mean these days you could be 65 years old and you're young compared to a lot of members of Congress like Charles Grassley. So we'll see. He is a talented communicator, he's good on tv. You can't count him out. Certainly this district in, in Texas seems like it's going to send a Republican to office. There's no doubt about it. We'll see how much infomercial money he banked from back in the day and whether that's enough to carry him through. Because with enough money in a district where someone in your party can't lose, quite often the person with the most money does in fact win.