It seems that someone is trying to imitate Congressman Gene Taylor on Twitter. It’s a thinly veiled attack account that offers left-of-center tweets from someone pretending to be Congressman Taylor.

The account (@genetaylordem) is relatively young, with only six tweets to date.

I’m not impressed. As an attack offering goes, it is weak. As an innovative means of using social media, it is even weaker. (Here are my personal thoughts on the matter.)

Past that, I’ll say what I said over on my personal blog:

It’s going to take a much more substantial offering to topple someone as popular and well entrenched (not to mention as effective for his constituents) as Congressman Taylor.

After all, Congressman Gene Taylor must be doing something right. Some Democrats are angry at him because of his votes on health care and the stimulus package. Republicans can’t stand him because of his jobs votes and his support of the Democratic majority.

But every two years, the overwhelming majority of is constituents — Democrats and Republicans — return him to Washington because they know he is a voice for the Fourth Congressional District of Mississippi first and foremost. Everything else — especially political considerations — are a distant second to him.

Good luck, Congressman Taylor. We’re happy to have you as our nominee for Congress, and we support you wholeheartedly!