CPR suspends TV campaign “out of respect” for Kennedy?
posted at 11:36 am on August 26, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
I got this via e-mail earlier this morning:
CPR Suspends Ad Campaign On News Of Senator Kennedy’s Passing, Statement from Rick Scott:
“With the sad news of Senator Kennedy’s passing Conservatives for Patients Rights is immediately suspending our ad campaign for health care reform out of respect to the Kennedy family as well as the Senator’s colleagues and supporters, to whom we extend our condolences. We know the debate will continue – a debate Senator Kennedy embraced with vigor – and we look forward to engaging in the debate in the months ahead. But now is a time for respect, reflection and remembrance. Senator Kennedy’s lifetime of dedicated public service transcended multiple generations. His devotion to many issues and his relentless passion made him a hero to his supporters and worthy adversary to his opponents. His voice and presence will be missed.”
It’s gracious of CPR and Rick Scott to pay their respects to the Kennedys, but that’s another issue entirely. While Ted Kennedy made health-care reform his signature issue, the debate doesn’t hinge on Kennedy’s presence or non-presence. It’s not a personal issue at all; it’s a national debate, and it continues today and every day while the ObamaCare proposal remains on the table. Unless CPR’s ads specifically mentioned Kennedy — and I’m not sure why they would have — there’s nothing at all disrespectful about running them today or any other day, in relation to Kennedy’s death.
Broadcast networks can and will endlessly chew over Kennedy’s life over the next few days, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us can’t stick to business. Let’s not indulge in the same personality-driven actions of the television stations. Our health-care debate didn’t depend on Kennedy before now, and the very same issues remain just as vital today as they were yesterday.
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One question,
will he buried with
or without pants?
burn in hell
Sonosam on August 26, 2009 at 12:05 PM
So it begins….grab your ankles and assume the position.
HornetSting on August 26, 2009 at 12:05 PM
If I had a spare million I’d make the “Ted Kennedy Foundation” a charity which teaches women to swim and men to drink and drive.
sven10077 on August 26, 2009 at 12:06 PM
Hey Ed. You should send ‘em your piece on Coleman.
JiangxiDad on August 26, 2009 at 12:06 PM
I don’t mind this (the suspension). it doesn’t “HURT” anything, and it possibly helps a tinge with some crossover dems that are mad about health care but actually like teddy?
it’s a no-lose situation
battleoflepanto1571 on August 26, 2009 at 12:07 PM
They should just redouble their efforts and say:
“If this bill passes, you’ll be deader than Teddy.”
Just name a submarine after him and get back to work.
TexasJew on August 26, 2009 at 12:09 PM
Just cuz he’s dead doesn’t mean he’s NOT STILL full of sh!t!
gsherin on August 26, 2009 at 12:09 PM
This makes me think of when Mel Carnahan’s plane went down right before the Senate election, and people actually said they voted for him “out of respect for the family”.
The Monster on August 26, 2009 at 12:09 PM
CPR: snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
I already emailed them regarding this.
ted c on August 26, 2009 at 12:10 PM
I hope these dumb bastards aren’t expecting any contributions after this.
TexasJew on August 26, 2009 at 12:10 PM
When CPR is revived, tell them not to give ObamaCare CPR!
ConScribe on August 26, 2009 at 12:11 PM
The rules apply to everybody as does law. Conservatives are who I care about. In my post I mention those I care about. I dislike seeing them make fools of themselves.
For instance I am a Doctor Who Fan. When I saw your name I thought hmmmm where have I seen that before. Then O remembered.
kanda on August 26, 2009 at 12:11 PM
Saw this on Lucianne.com amd kust had to share it
With apologies to Rodgers and Hammerstein and to poor Jud, a prince among men compared to Ted:
Poor Ted is dead
Poor Teddy is dead
All gather round his coffin now and cry
He had a heart of pearl
And he killed only ONE girl
Oh why did such a feller have to die?
Poor Ted is dead
Poor Teddy is dead
He’s lookin’ oh so peaceful and serene
Don’t we owe it to him now
To pass health care ANY how
To filibuster it would just be mean
Poooooor Ted
Poooooor Teddddddd
ArthurJ on August 26, 2009 at 12:11 PM
There is absolutely nothing wrong with extending condolances to the family of a recently deceased Senator, while at the same time continuing to argue against a bad bill. The two are unrelated entities and CPR will get demonized WHENEVER they begin again.
If they start up tomorrow, 3 days time, next week, next month, it will always be “Too soon!”
It was a nice sentiment to express, now continue your fight to protect all of America, please.
DrAllecon on August 26, 2009 at 12:11 PM
When Yassir Arafat died, was Israel supposed to hand over their entire country to the PLO out of “respect”?
TexasJew on August 26, 2009 at 12:14 PM
ted c on August 26, 2009 at 12:10 PM
Their email address, please..
TexasJew on August 26, 2009 at 12:15 PM
there is a difference between respect and stupidity.
note to CPR.
ted c on August 26, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Yes, I remember that. And to make matters worse, he was using the State plane (as governor) to make campaign appearances for the Senate race.
And everyone voted for him also knowing that OneTermBob would appoint Jean to hold the seat.
I also remember some Republican group encouraging people to write-in Jean Carnahan, probably hoping to split the vote and let Ashcroft win.
JamesLee on August 26, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Let’s continue the fight out of respect for those who died in service of this great country.
ROCnPhilly on August 26, 2009 at 12:16 PM
*sigh*
CP on August 26, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Yep. I inhabit a library and inspire fear. Beware the shadows.
Vashta.Nerada on August 26, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Have we learned nothing as true conservatives? While the liberal left USES Kennedy’s death as a rallying cry to pass Obamacare (hey…didn’t a certian political party get excoriated for “using” 9/11 as a rallying cry to fight terrorism?), our panty-waist so-called leadership will once again bend over and take it from the left.
Huckabye-Romney on August 26, 2009 at 12:16 PM
I don’t get it. WHY? If the dems were in that position would they’d do the same? I think not.
4shoes on August 26, 2009 at 12:17 PM
http://www.cprights.org/contact.php
ted c on August 26, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Ugh i dont mind this. Its not a huge deal. CPR isn’t LOSING support (as in people switching to LIKING obamacare) because they dont run ads for 2 days, but its possible some squishy independent might find it tacky (or, might find it tacky because cnn or msdnc highlights cpr) if they DO run ads.
you lose nothing by not running ads for 2 days.
let’s calm down about this.
battleoflepanto1571 on August 26, 2009 at 12:17 PM
eegad.
Write to CPR and tell them to reconsider: http://www.cprights.org/contact.php
tru2tx on August 26, 2009 at 12:18 PM
I can hardly wait for the pious ponderings of Teddie’s hard life to be broadcast. He sacrificed so much. This is going to make the Jackson fiasco look like child’s play.
GarandFan on August 26, 2009 at 12:18 PM
CPR needs to keep its guns up.
ted c on August 26, 2009 at 12:18 PM
When a society loses a collective sense of civility, two things happen. One is occurring on another thread at Hot Air. (You know the one.) The other is to overcompensate. Calling a truce is only effective is the adversary lays down its arms as well. Judging by the stacked deck that passed last evening, for a “town meeting” hosted by Congressman Jim Moran, I question that this is happening. Americans need to be heard on issues that affect them, whether one person or another lives to see the light of another day or not. The late Senator’s memory will not be honored by betraying supporters of groups like CPR, but it’s possible that many of those supporters will join the late Senator sooner than otherwise.
Who will pay tribute to them?
manwithblackhat on August 26, 2009 at 12:20 PM
THIS IS TOTAL BULLSH*T!!!
Kennedy did not deserve respect when he was drunk, nor does he deserve it now.
It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to flip on a station or read a blog to see the left has begun a political campaign with this terror to America.
And no, I don’t regret what I say. I stand by my words.
madmonkphotog on August 26, 2009 at 12:21 PM
I just emailed CPR.. Told them we are in the FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES… Continue the ad campaign. I know that the Dem’s wouldn’t pull if, say, Pres. Bush passed away.
reshas1 on August 26, 2009 at 12:23 PM
Perhaps there is a fat, drunken, corrupt RINO senator we could ice to balance the scales and get the show back on the road.
TMK on August 26, 2009 at 12:24 PM
Meanwhile — NBC et.al. are in full-tilt TeddyCare propaganda mode.
.
Farkin Stupid.
/.
CaveatEmpty on August 26, 2009 at 12:24 PM
With Harry Ried using Ted Kennedy’s death to push health care why are we folding just because someone died?
THEY are the ones taking advantage of his death.
clement on August 26, 2009 at 12:25 PM
You are able to apply reasoned and rational thought to the situation. That is to your credit. It truly is a no lose situation as opposed to going hysterically viral and gloating over the death of a US Senator from the opposition party. How will the general public view each action? Clearly they will dispise the gloaters and respect those supporting the action of CPR.
kanda on August 26, 2009 at 12:26 PM
Second that.
angryed on August 26, 2009 at 12:26 PM
Don’t. validate. the. linkage. of. Obamacare. with. Kennedy.
Speakup on August 26, 2009 at 12:26 PM
Keep hammering! Stay away from any mention of this bloated tick. Let the Democrooks do that. Many people in this country still haven’t forgotten Mary Jo and her unborn baby suffocating in a submerged Olds.
rotorjoe on August 26, 2009 at 12:28 PM
Did you support CPR by contributing to them?
kanda on August 26, 2009 at 12:28 PM
Typical Repubs. Be nice to the people who are trying to steal your liberties. Because (horror!) we wouldn’t want to be thought of as fighters for freedom.
Christian Conservative on August 26, 2009 at 12:30 PM
I emailed the dumb bastards too.
After that Wellstone debacle, it’s obvious that grassroots Conservatives need to call the shots and not beltway dummies like these people.
TexasJew on August 26, 2009 at 12:30 PM
CPR should run the Chappaquiddick Blues.
nor on August 26, 2009 at 12:32 PM
heart-ache.
sesquipedalian on August 26, 2009 at 12:33 PM
I thought this was a representative republic.
These morons work for us, not vice versa.
TexasJew on August 26, 2009 at 12:33 PM
I just wrote CPR and bluntly told them to go stuff themselves, but in different terms.
I have zero tolerance for a repeat of McVain’s fiacso in the waning days of the election, nor do I have tolerance for anyone/any group that will do the same.
madmonkphotog on August 26, 2009 at 12:33 PM
CPR should be scouring Kennedy speeches and writings for material that supports sensible reform. Not this Democratic nonsense.
It may not exist, but it would be great to beat the Dems to the Teddy-eulogizing punch. Consider it on par with Obama channeling Reagan and Lincoln and other people Obama has no business echoing for anything he does.
BuckeyeSam on August 26, 2009 at 12:33 PM
We should also suspend all mortgage payments…and all welfare payments this month…
right2bright on August 26, 2009 at 12:34 PM
I agree Ed, this is a tad bit ridiculous. I don’t remember any liberal groups pulling ads following Bob Novak’s death. This is a national debate, not an issue surrounding any one person or politician. It seems like all of the news coverage surrounding the health care debate focus on Obama and what it means for his political career – now its about Ted Kennedy. How about for the nation as a whole? What’s going on here? Ted Kennedy died so we might as well give up the fight against socialized medicine out of some form of respect? This is a stupid move by CPR
d-mitch on August 26, 2009 at 12:38 PM
no more money for those wussies
bill30097 on August 26, 2009 at 12:40 PM
Wait…did their campaign ads reference Ted Kennedy? Then that seems reasonable. Re-edit the ads and air them.
However, if it didn’t, are they just not arguing an issue whose debate he was part of? That’s ludicrous.
MadisonConservative on August 26, 2009 at 12:41 PM
Every cent they have should be exhausted for “If Teddy was on Obamacare, he’d have been dead LONG AGO” ads.
marklmail on August 26, 2009 at 12:43 PM
The Republicans have to match the ruthlessness of the Dems. Suspending any campaign “out of respect” is a worthless gesture, a sign of weakness, that the Dems will exploit to the fullest. The fact that Pelosi and Byrd didn’t wait until the corpse was cold to start exploiting Ted’s passing proves this point.
n0doz on August 26, 2009 at 12:48 PM
“Unless CPR’s ads specifically mentioned Kennedy — and I’m not sure why they would have — there’s nothing at all disrespectful about running them today or any other day, in relation to Kennedy’s death.”
It might be because of this:
http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/08/26/byrd-wants-health-bill-renamed-for-kennedy/
JeffinSac on August 26, 2009 at 12:49 PM
Yea, I donated too…. sucker.
Fool me once. Our side is too nice… finsh last.
This is war.
stenwin77 on August 26, 2009 at 12:49 PM
Face palm of the day.
Fletch54 on August 26, 2009 at 12:51 PM
Ed, I’ve been thinking about this statement. Perhaps this is more publicity for their ad campaign by broadcasting the postponing.
Just a thought.
shick on August 26, 2009 at 12:51 PM
I didn’t respect him yesterday and I don’t respect him today. He did things and supported things that were damaging to us as a nation. Sometimes for nothing more than to make a political point. Worthy adversary? He was nothing more than a partisan hack that had the ability to do nothing but stay in the United States Senate for his entire life. Never created a job in his life. He destroyed jobs. Unless you consider the maids, butlers and drivers in his family’s employ. He took over his brother’s seat and never did another thing on his own except get reelected to the same seat over and over again because he was a sympathetic figure with a HUGE political machine.
Mary Jo Kopechne 1940-1969
JeffinOrlando on August 26, 2009 at 12:55 PM
A privileged man of considerable political power who increased tax burdens on working people, and who, in his dying days, sought out and purchased the very same medical treatment he desired to deny by law to the average American.
I take no joy in his death and I offer no respect for how he wasted his life.
bloviator on August 26, 2009 at 12:56 PM
Agreed 100%
JetBoy on August 26, 2009 at 12:56 PM
I think CPR should take the time to re-do their ads to fight Obamacare under its new name in honor of Kennedy. Chappaquiddick-care.
Iblis on August 26, 2009 at 12:57 PM
no! No! NO!
This is that same trap that McCain and various other RINO’s always fall for, its a seperate issue. LIFE CONTINUES!! and its one thing to be repsectful and quite another to suspend all critism in an ogoing public debate about this nations health care situation. This is the same ludicrous notion that the right needs to just concede and reach across the aisle to get things done. Does anyone honestly think the will be respected in the morning for suspending an ad campaign when I can guarantee the left is going to actually be the disrespectful ones and USE this event to a bill passing public sympathy gaining advantage!
Koa on August 26, 2009 at 12:58 PM
John McCain played by the rules last year, how did that work out for him?
Dr Evil on August 26, 2009 at 1:13 PM
That’s interesting.
Being drowned out and therefore ineffective is a serious concern. Their respect for the late Senator and his family is commendable. But, I’d counsel that they keep their eyes on the ball.
ConScribe on August 26, 2009 at 1:20 PM
CPR decides to take the chill pill.
ICBM on August 26, 2009 at 1:22 PM
Suspending the ads was the only thing this guy could think of to grab a second or two of attention. He probably wishes that Kennedy was in the ads…but whatever.
I’ve heard the news, he’s dead. Yep, indeed. I really don’t care, a liberal is a liberal is a socialist, dead or not. They just do a lot less damage to this country when dead. Mary Jo is probably stuffing a pineapple in his rectum right now on the ‘other side’.
The left will use Ted’s death to the maximum of course, hoping that Teds death will somehow give this monsterous travesty a chance at getting passed because Americans are just stupid that way according to most dumbocrats.
A murderer dies, and you get to pass a bill that kills millions more? Liberal logic at it’s finest.
Spiritk9 on August 26, 2009 at 1:23 PM
as if the liberals wouldn’t jump at a chance to kick conservatives while they are down…remember Reagan?
kirkill on August 26, 2009 at 1:27 PM
WTF?! No, really. WTF?! In the words of Margaret Thatcher, don’t go wobbly on me, Conservatives. Keep taking the fight to them.
Rational Thought on August 26, 2009 at 1:29 PM
Just lost the 60 votes.
riverrat10k on August 26, 2009 at 1:33 PM
Every time I saw those gin-soaked jowls, I thought “menace”.
marklmail on August 26, 2009 at 1:37 PM
Let Conservatives for Patient’s Rights know that this position is too craven and spineless for your hard-earned donations. Respond with the same email that you registered along with your donation and tell them that NOTHING they do will garner sympathy from the left, all they’re doing is pissing away the efforts of everyone’s who’s fought so hard to bring HR3200 to its knees.
Khorum on August 26, 2009 at 1:40 PM
Half-a$$ed “conservatives” like these wimps are the death of conservatism. Reminds me of the Maverick stepping on himself during the debate cycle.
Screw these 5th columnists.
Spartacus on August 26, 2009 at 1:42 PM
I know, many of you will disagree, which is fine; but from a strict PR perspective, I say smart move. Blunts the “heartless conservative” claim, and puts the organization and its opposition to ObamaCare in the news at zero cost. This is the doldrums anyway: midway between sessions, nothing good on TV so fewer viewers — why not take a week off, save your advertising money for just before Congress comes back into session, and give yourself extra cred for compassion. The money saved by ads not running this week will allow them to double down at crunch time.
Win-win.
RegularJoe on August 26, 2009 at 1:43 PM
BTW, wobbly would be if they ran an ad saying Chappaquiddick Ted was right, or partly right, about healthcare reform. They didn’t do that. This is more the equivalent of allowing your enemy access to the battlefield to retrieve their dead. The libs will try to capitalize on Kennedy’s corpse to pass the crap sandwich, and it’ll backfire — those who love Kennedy are already on board with healthcare reform, while those of us who despised him will have yet another reason to oppose it, and many of those who have no particular opinion will think it crass to use the death of a person for political gain. A bunch of liberal money spent, and nothing really gained by it. Sweeter’n honey.
There are some times where it’s best to just stay in your foxhole and let your enemy flay himself, then return to the fight when conditions are more favorable. IMHO, this is one of those times.
RegularJoe on August 26, 2009 at 1:52 PM
Nicey-nicey Republicans/conservatives always get their a$$es kicked. Conservatives who go for the jugular with terms like “death panels” control the public debate.
bw222 on August 26, 2009 at 1:53 PM
Well, that’s not quite true. There were also the bartenders, strippers, prostitutes, and one lucky undertaker.
RegularJoe on August 26, 2009 at 1:55 PM
Boy did I mis-read the headline!
I thought it referred to stopping resuscitation efforts on old liberals!
dominigan on August 26, 2009 at 1:58 PM
CPR… tap tap tap… OK… ENOUGH TIME, NOW!!
Khun Joe on August 26, 2009 at 1:59 PM
The Marines taught me that “respect” is earned. This clown did not meet that milestone.
Alden Pyle on August 26, 2009 at 2:07 PM
NEW AD: In Memory of Edward Ted Kennedy.
His PRIVATE healthcare plan allowed him to have many more precious moments with his family and more time to serve his country that he couldn’t have enjoyed under Obamacare.
marklmail on August 26, 2009 at 2:07 PM
Sure, this could be a strategically masterful move; only as long as CPR does not take the Left’s bait of allowing ObamaCare be effectively sold by nothing other than the emotional cloak of the memory of the late Senator Kennedy – out of respect and sadness and ‘compassion’. I think that that is partly just the sort of probable cop out folks wish to forestall.
ConScribe on August 26, 2009 at 2:07 PM
http://www.cprights.org/contact.php
ted c on August 26, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Thanks 4 the link, I gave ‘em my two cents worth…well actually, I dropped the whole damn piggy bank on top of their heads. Serves ‘em right!
The political conservative leadership is guilty of “generals are always fighting the last war”. It reminds me of king George’s Redcoats. In an outdated understanding of “honor” they stayed in formations and stood out like sore thumbs in the open, while colonial sharp-shooters picked them off in their buckskins concealed in the tree-line.
Such lack of cognition as to how the battlefeild has changed, I fear will end in the same disasterous results the British met.
Idiots!
Archimedes on August 26, 2009 at 2:10 PM
You are able to apply reasoned and rational thought to the situation. That is to your credit. It truly is a no lose situation as opposed to going hysterically viral and gloating over the death of a US Senator from the opposition party. How will the general public view each action? Clearly they will dispise the gloaters and respect those supporting the action of CPR.
kanda on August 26, 2009 at 12:26 PM
There is a vast chasm of difference between “going viral with gloating” and rolling over and playing dead! If the left will not “honor” their champion with a cease-fire, why the hell should we?
In battle, use the terrain you find yourself in, and act on it!
Archimedes on August 26, 2009 at 2:19 PM
I wish so much that this was true. I love the red meat. I stand up and cheer for a good Reagan conservative, and would love to see people like him in positions of power. But the lefties have been VERY effective at portraying conservatives as heartless bastards. You know it’s not true, and I know it’s not true; but to win a national election (or in this case a national debate) we have to counteract that false charge. Hammering away relentlessly, and flipping a just-deceased U.S. Senator the bird — even Turd Kennedy — will not win points with those ill-informed middle-of-the-roaders. Publicly pointing out that this isn’t a personal vendetta against Kennedy is a step in that direction.
(I will grant that you CAN often win local or statewide elections with red-meat conservative campaigns, in areas that are quite conservative; just not with more moderate electorates, which — I’m very sad to say — our national electorate currently is. Right of center, but moderate — mostly BECAUSE of the left’s successful casting of conservatives as mean old white men.)
Remember, it’s not as though votes are going to be cast in the next week. Congress doesn’t reconvene until Sept. 8. So let’s say CPR lays off for a week, then comes back with new messages, messages people haven’t been seeing every day, messages that will catch their attention, on maybe Sept. 3. That’s still 5 days before Congress comes back for their fall session, time enough to get the anti-Obamacare troops back to action (and a full week before TV Season Premieres start in earnest, and people start watching more TV).
It will also give conservatives some interesting data to help determine the effectiveness of an ad campaign like CPR’s. That could be invaluable as we lead up to 2010.
It may or may not be brilliant strategy; but it’s only “going wobbly” if the message weakens.
RegularJoe on August 26, 2009 at 2:21 PM
They cancelled the campaign for allowing government to set your date of death, out of respect for a man who fought for life to his last breath.
It shows that they’re aware of the long-term consequences of government health care.
hawksruleva on August 26, 2009 at 2:25 PM
The Marines taught me to respect my enemy who was just as deadly, committed, and well trained as I was. I was prepared to die for my belief knowing that other Marines would come and make the enemy pay the price if I was defeated just as I would do the same for them with a vengence. Remember, Honor Courage Commitment is what Marines live by. They are not simply words. We still after all these years take honorable actions with personal courage while we maintain the committment to see the battle through. Thats why we are Marines forever.
Taking that lesson to civian life I applied it to the liberals who are just as dedicated to their cause as I am to the conservative cause. That means to respect our adversary. I will do everything to defeat them within my power but I will never lose respect for their skill, cunning, and power lest I become arrogant and overconfident. Unless I do that my enemy will own me.
Semper Fi
kanda on August 26, 2009 at 2:26 PM
Two comments: first, it is PRECISELY that “emotional cloaking” that this has the power to disarm — i.e. don’t let it become personal about someone who has just died. Don’t let your OPPONENT make it personal about someone who has just died. If they can sit there dabbing their eyes with a tissue, and pointing at those mean conservatives who didn’t appreciate Kennedy, and – they look up at the viewers — “and they don’t care about YOU, either, so they don’t want you to have healthcare! Waaaaaaaaaa….” — this is stupid, but you KNOW it would be effective with a lot of people. But if we’re standing there with a hand on their shoulders saying, “there, there” for a couple of days, it takes that club out of their hands.
The second comment is that we have to quit putting mock quotes around “compassion”. Compassion is a real thing, and we should have it — and we should let it be seen that we have it. We just need to make a well-reasoned case about why it is the responsibility of people, not governments. Government compassion should consist of leaving us the heck alone, which isn’t mock compassion — it’s very real. But in this case, conservatives — as people, not a government operation — should show some compassion, and take a few days off.
Better still, it’d be great if they’d just spend a few days focusing on the proper role of government, and the founders’ ideal of a Constitutional Republic. Then tie that BACK into healthcare next week.
RegularJoe on August 26, 2009 at 2:33 PM
And just who wrote that “appoint my successor” letter to the Mass. governor if Kennedy was on his $10,000-dollar-a-day deathbed using up all those health care resources?
My hope is we have a good, old fashioned Paul Wellstone style memorial service where Obama and the Clintons get caught up in front of the TV cameras with that old time Liberalism.
kens on August 26, 2009 at 2:35 PM
I was just hearing AARP’s “truth” ad on the radio during Rush. It’s funny, they haven’t suspended thier ads.
I thought AARP wasn’t taking a position. And, how can they say something in the bill is not the truth, when their spokesperson was saying there was no bill to agree or disagree with.
barnone on August 26, 2009 at 2:36 PM
Do you suppose AARP lied? What is interesting is the AARP ad seemed to support obamacare when I saw it.
kanda on August 26, 2009 at 2:39 PM
The AARP Radio ad does. It says that all the main bullet points against OBAMACare are Lies. But again, I watched their spokesperson being interviewed several times and when asked specific questions about what AARP does/doesn’t support, he said “there is no bill” so he can’t be for or against it without the “actual” language.
barnone on August 26, 2009 at 2:46 PM
Before they put him to rest, they will give him an enema & bury him in a shoebox…
bj the muse on August 26, 2009 at 2:50 PM
To me he was a scumbag. The left will propose sainthood for a seriously flawed man. Keep up the pressure to not pass any government run health care that costs us money we don’t have.
jorb on August 26, 2009 at 2:51 PM
Ed, this is on the same page as your post about Coleman. Our side is always trying to do what they think is being a gentleman. They would NEVER give us this same kind of respect, EVER. They would kick us while we’re down and spit in our face before backing down or suspending any political debate or issue. This is why we lose. Not because our ideas are bad, hopeless, and unpopular but because he have limp-wristed apologizer who don’t believe enough in their own principals to fight for them through thick or thin. You are right! This is not personal and about ONE PERSON, this is about our NATION. They Founding Fathers never condoned the concept of CAMELOT and wouldn’t condoning the honorary anointing of American Royalty. Leave that to the economically falling countries of Europe. It has no place here. That’s why my families AND yours are here in the first place!
Sultry Beauty on August 26, 2009 at 3:03 PM
WTF!? Kennedy deserves as much disrespect as the loyal opposition is able to muster.
exdeadhead on August 26, 2009 at 3:10 PM
Pussy republicans (conservatives) roll over once again.
darwin-t on August 26, 2009 at 3:13 PM
Just one comment. There is nothing wrong with compassion (or with respect or with sadness) when appropriate. I think you know this, as you point out. The quotes were not mock quotes; they were, rather, phony quotes and/or guilt quotes, if you will.
‘Compassion’ for the cameras and political manipulation, as the Left usually shows, is fraudulent and morally bankrupt, on the one hand. ‘Compassion’ out of guilt and political brow-beating, as the Right sometimes shows, is stupid and self-demeaning, on the other hand. By way of explanation, the reason I put only compassion in the phony/guilty quotes is exactly because many do misunderstand it (as they misconstrue many virtues).
Lastly, there is nothing wrong with being seen showing compassion and indeed explaining how it is that you are being compassionate in your conservative ideals and actions–the compassion part, though, not the being seen part, comes first. I think that you know that also.
ConScribe on August 26, 2009 at 3:13 PM
Lose-Lose. It plays right to their self-righteous delusion, seen in every bleeding heart movie since “Twelve Angry Men” that conservatism is a pose, a sham put on because of money interests or some neurosis, that deep down we KNOW the liberals are right, and if we have ANY decency we can be shamed into doing it their way. Pfui. In no way do we ‘dishonor’ Kennedy by pointing out how wrong his agenda is.
Chris_Balsz on August 26, 2009 at 3:31 PM
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