Dems’ new midterm message: These tea-party wingnuts have captured the GOP
posted at 5:23 pm on July 28, 2010 by Allahpundit
It’s working in Nevada. Why not try it nationally too?
Here’s why I, like Rick Santorum, can’t quite see the genius in Pawlenty positioning himself as an antidote to ye olde Republican “country club elitists.” Isn’t that caricature a tad outdated, especially at a moment when prominent liberals are in the news for not paying their yacht tax? Granted, the Dems will trot it out occasionally for old time’s sake (“John McCain owns seven homes!”), but ever since the fateful DNC ad last year attacking townhall protesters as “angry mobs,” their main attack on conservatives hasn’t been that they’re upper-crust snobs. Rather the opposite — that they’re feral rednecks stampeding towards the voting booth to devour Great Society II like the zombies pouring into the mall at the end of “Dawn of the Dead.” And so we come full circle with a new ad, whose cheesy mock-horror soundtrack would make George Romero cringe and whose targets — policy wonk Paul Ryan is scarrrry but Marco Rubio, a serious threat to win in Florida, isn’t? — are somewhat inexplicable. Or maybe not so inexplicable: Ryan is included for having committed the radical wingnut offense of offering a deadly serious solution to the deadly serious problem of long-term fiscal unsustainability, which even Obama himself acknowledges as a crisis. Lest you ever wonder how committed Democrats really are to solving the entitlement crisis, remember this and know that they were happy to list a guy like Ryan as a resident of “crazy-town.”
Here’s the write-up of the Dems’ presser this afternoon rolling out the ad. Looks like Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was tasked with playing the race card, a duty I’m sure she was happy to perform. Exit question: Up until now, the Democratic line has been that the GOP wants nothing more than to return to Bush’s agenda. Given that Bush was responsible for TARP, for the Medicare prescription-drug expansion, for pushing amnesty, and various other policies that are anathema to most tea partiers, how exactly does this new message square with the old one? “Bush is the font of all evil — except that the tea party is worse”?
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Feral Rednecks, lol. I want to be a party of the Feral Redneck party!
Daemonocracy on July 28, 2010 at 5:26 PM
Uh, no. The “it’s” you’re referring to Nevada isn’t the “it” being referred to by the Dems. Angle is messing up on her own without Reid tying her to the tea party.
Apologetic California on July 28, 2010 at 5:27 PM
So I guess the Democrat outreach to the Tea Party is over, then?
The Chewbacca Defense on July 28, 2010 at 5:27 PM
No.
Firefly_76 on July 28, 2010 at 5:27 PM
If there were no stupid people, there could be no Democrats.
Josiah on July 28, 2010 at 5:29 PM
I R 1
thomasaur on July 28, 2010 at 5:30 PM
The flip side of this is the reality that the Dems are being run by their own wingnuts like Nancy Pelosi, Henry Waxman, John Kerry, etc., and they’ve helped run the economy into the ditch.
teke184 on July 28, 2010 at 5:30 PM
Maybe the GOP out to do an ad accusing Barry of just “continuing the failed policies of George W. Bush.”
Typhoon on July 28, 2010 at 5:31 PM
Boy that will be effective, since the people it is intended to scare probably didn’t even know there was such a thing as the 17th Amendment. LOL.
txmomof6 on July 28, 2010 at 5:31 PM
If that’s their best shot…meh.
BHO Jonestown on July 28, 2010 at 5:32 PM
She definitely is messing up on her own, but the tea-party brand has declined over the last few months too. We’ve written posts about some of the polls before. (I know, all the polls are wrong.)
Allahpundit on July 28, 2010 at 5:32 PM
You Ipad people are obnoxious. /
portlandon on July 28, 2010 at 5:33 PM
Note to GOP:
Don’t say “yes it’s true” – say “HELL YES IT’S TRUE”
jake-the-goose on July 28, 2010 at 5:33 PM
There are three words that define the Democrats:
1)presumptuous
2)propaganda
3)paranoia
They are part and parcel of everything they say or do.
technopeasant on July 28, 2010 at 5:35 PM
I would assume someone who has no interest in Glenn Beck’s or Rush Limbaugh’s or Sean Hannity’s shows would say that.
Marcus on July 28, 2010 at 5:35 PM
That commercial was pitiful. I can’t wait for November.
barrythrowslikeagirl on July 28, 2010 at 5:35 PM
“OMG….the Tea Party is coming….they are coming for your children, your parents, your dog …. stop the Tea Party before they kill you.”
Excerpt from a speech given by Rep. John Lewis, October 2010.
David in ATL on July 28, 2010 at 5:35 PM
This is the very best they can come up?
Oh brother!
pilamaye on July 28, 2010 at 5:36 PM
Help!
The boogeyman’s gonna get us unless we vote for the Democrats!
BOOGA BOOGA!
Good Lt on July 28, 2010 at 5:36 PM
Bullshit.
Ronnie on July 28, 2010 at 5:36 PM
I don’t get the impression that the Trent Lotts of the Republican Party have just handed over the car keys to the “riff raff” and said, “you drive for awhile.” Maybe that works in Democrats ads, but it’s not true.
RBMN on July 28, 2010 at 5:36 PM
GOP should change the music and run the ad themselves…
mjbrooks3 on July 28, 2010 at 5:37 PM
Hoo boy, that’s a sure fire winner! America just LOVES those liberal harridans like Debbie Wasserman-Schulz!
:-D
rockmom on July 28, 2010 at 5:37 PM
I don’t think they care if it squares. They will just keep going with the race card, the “party of no”, and whatever else is convenient. They seem pretty desperate.
forest on July 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM
Wow, pretty pathetic. If that’s the best they can come up with they are in bigger trouble than I thought they were.
sandee on July 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM
Compare the production value of this ad to the Republican Governors Association’s… Pretty weak DNC.
I laughed when the intern or whoever made this video thought that Democratic voters would even know what the 17th amendment was!
tetriskid on July 28, 2010 at 5:39 PM
August 28/2010
Schadenfreude on July 28, 2010 at 5:39 PM
Quit smack talkin T-Paw!
abobo on July 28, 2010 at 5:40 PM
I don’t know, that list looked pretty good to me, as a start.
skeeter on July 28, 2010 at 5:40 PM
EEEGAD!!! Bible thumping patriotic clingers!!!!
DA – DA – DAAAAAA
tru2tx on July 28, 2010 at 5:42 PM
Ditto.
The federal government won’t protect the border, it controls my healtcare, it controls my banking and credit card transactions, and private citizens can no longer make a damn FOIA request of the SEC.
You tell me who scares me more.
BuckeyeSam on July 28, 2010 at 5:42 PM
This has been for some time too. I seem to remember MoveOn.org claiming to ‘own’ the democrat party a few years back. Does the left REALLY want THIS war?
clement on July 28, 2010 at 5:43 PM
I know who they are aiming this ad to. It’s the so called “independents.”Those squishy middle of the roaders that just can’t seem to make up their minds. Somehow I don’t think this is going to help them with their decision.
sandee on July 28, 2010 at 5:44 PM
Want to be afraid?
Look at this:
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/07/28/feds-to-enforce-fingerprintid-registration-database-against-mortgage-brokers/
What the h*ll is going on in this country?
BuckeyeSam on July 28, 2010 at 5:46 PM
It’s not outdated to position yourself as NOT a CC Rep. Though I would simply go with a Reagan ad. Plagiarize The Gipper, then give him credit for your ad. “Yeah, I lifted this from Ronnie. Because I believe what he believed. Up the Reagan Revolution!” The only ones who would be turned off or complaining would be the Dems and those Fat Cat Republicans. Meantime the majority of the country will be voting for the new Reagan coallition.
As for the Dem ads, it’s working in NV because the candidate isn’t running a good campaign. You said so yourself didn’t you? Besides if the GOP has anything on the ball (I know that is a real concern) they can just refute the ads and say we want what Reagan wanted. But….see above. The GOP Fat Cats don’t want more Reagan. They want crony capitalism. That after all is what the GOP was founded on. Oh yes, they were mercantilists, aka: “The American Plan”. Ole Abe and his homies were crony capitalists in a big, big way.
JimP on July 28, 2010 at 5:48 PM
Wow… that is probably the lamest ad I’ve seen yet.
It stinks to high heaven.
Seriously, how much do they pay to produce something like that?
They should demand a refund, (and air freshener).
SalHansen on July 28, 2010 at 5:49 PM
You know, I am not sure I can tell the difference between the attitude in this ad and the attitude of the RNC and the country club GOP.
The ad itself is kinda lame.
sharrukin on July 28, 2010 at 5:51 PM
AP: Yes the TP polls have weakened but nothing polls worse than the “Beltway GOP”. Why improve the party’s standing by tying it to anything else? Frame the individual candidates as freaks and tar the party as desperate. Pretending the party has a platform makes people think the GOP might have a spine, and that can only help the GOP.
Patrick Banks on July 28, 2010 at 5:51 PM
Inanemergencydial on July 28, 2010 at 5:51 PM
Yet you keep posting for the juicy goosey checky.
I hold my flag, like my bible and like my guns Allah. You can’t eat a Ipad when you are hungry and you can’t read an Ipad when there is no power.
upinak on July 28, 2010 at 5:51 PM
Right, but of course the electorate is much, much, much bigger than the combined audience of those guys’ shows. But no need to refight this battle, which has been fought in the comments many times before. Up until election day 2008, the vast, vast majority of readers were convinced McCain was going to win even though every poll for weeks had shown Obama comfortably ahead. If some of you guys want to believe that the entire public thinks exactly as you do, have at it.
Allahpundit on July 28, 2010 at 5:52 PM
That seems quite mature.
thomasaur on July 28, 2010 at 5:53 PM
It’s a bad ad just on a technical side. Trying to read the text, recognize the faces, and figure out where the music was going got me lost the first time through. And then the music doesn’t go anywhere anyway as there is a jarring transition.
theperfecteconomist on July 28, 2010 at 5:54 PM
that is the beautiful thing Allah. When they see more going out of their checks this coming new year… we don’t have to convinve them. They will get upset themselves. And THEN they will start asking questions.
upinak on July 28, 2010 at 5:54 PM
For the life of me I can’t comprehend why they don’t already.
thomasaur on July 28, 2010 at 5:56 PM
Yup.
And the indies are probably on board with 70% of the ad content.
Please run it in MN-6.
Please, oh please…
Bruno Strozek on July 28, 2010 at 5:56 PM
I am definitely a Tea Party wingnut crazy because I loved everything in that ad and want to help make it happen!
LOL!
I’m sitting here wondering why I don’t have plans to be in Washington on 8/28 for Glenn and Sarah’s big rally…
Jenfidel on July 28, 2010 at 5:56 PM
Some of them definitely will. That’s how the tea party has grown over the past 18 months. Whether that will offset the demonization campaign being run by lefties against the tea-party movement, though, I don’t know.
Allahpundit on July 28, 2010 at 5:57 PM
I wonder how New York will like Sarah’s endorsement today.
upinak on July 28, 2010 at 5:57 PM
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Inanemergencydial on July 28, 2010 at 5:57 PM
Yeah because the marriage between the Tea Party and the GOP (ha!) is soooo much scarier than SEIU thugs and the DNC.
w3bgrrl on July 28, 2010 at 5:58 PM
Some of us knew he was toast when he paused his campaign like a retard. :P
lorien1973 on July 28, 2010 at 5:58 PM
Let’s hope their demonization campaign works then.
Inanemergencydial on July 28, 2010 at 5:58 PM
Tav on July 28, 2010 at 6:00 PM
Thanks libs for the free advertisment. You are listing those policy items as if they were a bad thing.
midlander on July 28, 2010 at 6:00 PM
Smart butt LOL!
I do Allah… and I see my co-workers waking up to this now and not 4 months down the road. And these people are liberals.
upinak on July 28, 2010 at 6:01 PM
Tav on July 28, 2010 at 6:03 PM
Simple message to America from Democrats, you’re bankrupt. And so are your kids, their kids and then their kids.
tarpon on July 28, 2010 at 6:04 PM
The readers I saw and myself thought that since Obama was below 50% there was a chance the undecided just couldn’t pull the trigger on Obama and they would fall to McCain but alas they did vote a majority for Obama. Now the situation is more like Carter in 1980 the known bad versus Reagan the scary unknown conservative. Are people going to vote againat the tea party AP? Don’t bet that if they are such an unknown to the masses that they translate to the masses either good or bad in any proportion to what actual democrats are doing in Washington. Did our warnings translate to anything about Obama? Wright, the Annenburg Challange, Spread the Wealth? Did the public end up just going with its gut? Yes they did and handwringing that some voter in say Florida cares about people outside of public office like Angle or Rand in another state is unwarranted. Want to bet that Tea Party doesn’t make it on the chart for voters concerns on election day? See the 2008 election for my evidence.
Conan on July 28, 2010 at 6:05 PM
“Get the Facts” sounds like great advice, though that won’t help libtards who never accept their own faults.
Something flashed by that was absolutely unfounded by any standard. “Protect those responsible for the oil spill.” Hey, that’s OBAMA and his incompetent (AND crazy) administration. No Way any TEA PARTY member would protect ANYONE at fault for the Gulf Gusher, especially those functioning as inspectors during THIS administration.
/Is Dean still the DNC Chairman? It looked like his handiwork. Can you even imagine how much worse we’d be off had Dean ever won the presidency?
maverick muse on July 28, 2010 at 6:06 PM
Do you think getting control of narrative is important to Republicans?
Speakup on July 28, 2010 at 6:07 PM
Starting the policy statements with they will repeal Obamacare is funny, given the percentage of people that want just that.
Slowburn on July 28, 2010 at 6:11 PM
I wasn’t convinced McCain was going to win at all…I hope and prayed he would and that America wouldn’t elect Maobama, but that’s all anyone can do.
Things looked pretty bad when McCain ran the worst. campaign. ever. (Except for Sarah Palin and I voted for her.)
You don’t need the polls to confirm for you, however, that the mood in the country is ugly right now and it’s not either Oilbama or DemocRat friendly.
These Tea Parties, which are growing, not shrinking, didn’t come out of a vacuum.
Americans notice when Washington keeps passing laws, bills and programs that we don’t want, don’t need and are not willing to pay for, especially when we know it will cost us our jobs, our homes, our way of life and our future.
Jenfidel on July 28, 2010 at 6:11 PM
Welcome one, welcome all
Obama and his cohorts are about to take a fall
It’s not too late to join the glorious fight
And stop in it’s tracks this hideous Third World fright!
Cheshire Cat on July 28, 2010 at 6:12 PM
Defines the Tea Party agenda for those without a clue.
OF COURSE there are uberleftists who will vote the Democrat ticket regardless of the hell this administration has forced down our throats.
I opened this thread wondering if Allahpundit was going to trash the Tea Party as “corrupting” the Republican Neoconservative Caucus. Not this time.
But people like Cantor (and McCain can’t stop himself) will defy the Tea Party for being radical, and will prevent any Tea Party agenda from transpiring under their watch in Congress. THEY want constitutional conservative support but WON’T provide constitutional conservatism support.
maverick muse on July 28, 2010 at 6:13 PM
Bush was not responsible for what Obama did with TARP. The money loaned out under TARP back then has been paid back and if that had been the end of it, the whole thing would not be an issue today. No more than than the Savings and Loan bailout was a problem once the money was paid back…and most people support the Medicare program and Bush’s program was a lot less costly than the one being promoted by the Democrats. And Bush also talked about social security reform and he made some effort to deal with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Democrats blocked it of course, but by and large Bush is not remembered as someone who drove up trillion dollar deficits. It might be that the Democrats are realizing that to most people a $160 billion deficit and 4.6 unemployment sounds pretty good. So the Democrats might assume that at this point the less said the better. Instead they will move onto the Tea Party and Breitbart.
That might work in Nevada to some extent, but I don’t think it will work nationally.
Terrye on July 28, 2010 at 6:13 PM
That struck me as the only “off” part.
I wonder how that snuck in…because I’m not aware of any Tea Partiers that want to give BP a pass for the mess.
Jenfidel on July 28, 2010 at 6:13 PM
Cheshire Cat on July 28, 2010 at 6:12 PM
heh
maverick muse on July 28, 2010 at 6:14 PM
The Dems want to focus on ANYTHING but Joe Biden’s “three-letter word” JOBS.
Unemployment is stuck at around 10%.
Shrug off the Obamatrons’ inept critiques and keep beating the JOBS JOBS JOBS!!! drum.
People care more about a paycheck than terrifying teabags.
profitsbeard on July 28, 2010 at 6:14 PM
The Kostards really think this is effective. Big Oil, Big Oil Oooga Booga!
Speedwagon82 on July 28, 2010 at 6:15 PM
Obviously they don’t think like we do, if they did Obama would not be where he is now would he?
Terrye on July 28, 2010 at 6:16 PM
Nobody can fire Andrew Breitbart.
maverick muse on July 28, 2010 at 6:17 PM
Now is the time to send back exactly the same message to where it properly belongs:
Show: Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin…then Obama, Pelosi and Reid.
THEY HAVE CAPTURED THE DNC.
AND SO IS THE BLUEPRINT FOR HOW THEY WOULD GOVERN.
GET THE FACTS.
Lockstein13 on July 28, 2010 at 6:17 PM
Democrats are vile and disgusting creatures. With all they have done in the last 18 months, they choose to ignore their accomplishments and instead make the false claim of racism. I’m guessing the American people are fed up with their crap and will let them know in November.
huckleberryfriend on July 28, 2010 at 6:18 PM
Wow. Can you imagine how awesome it would be to get even 2 things listed in that video accomplished?
di butler on July 28, 2010 at 6:18 PM
Aw, c’mon. I remember most comments at least coming up with scenarios where McCain might or could win, but the vast vast majority being convinced he was going to win up until the end? No.
My scenario was that “all” McCain would have to do is sweep close calls in IN, MO, VA, NC, CO, NM and also win 2 of three in FL, OH, PA. No sweat. I was so convinced that was going to happen, I staked my retirement on it in Vegas.
forest on July 28, 2010 at 6:19 PM
Ouch.
Maybe you can make some of your money back by betting on Angle over Reid…You can still get decent odds today, I’ll bet.
Jenfidel on July 28, 2010 at 6:25 PM
Yes, and let’s not forget that the Obama’s plan to vacation in Marbella and Martha’s Vineyard, at the same time Arne Duncan suggests that the children of we the peasants go to school 12 hours a day with stolen summers (a requirement the Obama’s children are conveniently exempt from).
Buy Danish on July 28, 2010 at 6:25 PM
I would agree that Rand Paul is a liability. What in God’s name were the GOP voters in KY thinking when they nominated him? He’s the son of a complete nut that has ties to white supremacists like Don Black.
Ward Cleaver on July 28, 2010 at 6:27 PM
I know.
Terrye on July 28, 2010 at 6:31 PM
One word: libertarian.
Terrye on July 28, 2010 at 6:32 PM
ZOMFG!!!! As bad as the RethugliKKKans were already, now they’ve become demon-possessed by those horrible, horrible Tea Party people? NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! OMFG JUST LET A SIX-MILE-WIDE ASTEROID HIT THE EARTH AND END IT ALL!!!!!
My goodness, this is hilarious. Next the Democrats will be crying “Come back George W. Bush, all is forgiven!”
Aitch748 on July 28, 2010 at 6:37 PM
Repeal the 17th amendment? First I’ve ever heard of that.
I’ve been advocating repealing the 19th amendment.
kurtzz3 on July 28, 2010 at 6:37 PM
McCain lost because he only fought for the Presidency with Republicans, when he wimped out in the last debate and refused to go after Obama because of his race, everybody knew it was over and Vladimir hasn’t lost his smirk since.
He performed just as the left knew he would and the most radical candidate they’ve ever nominated sits in our Whitehouse, destroying our lives, while we piss and moan.
Speakup on July 28, 2010 at 6:41 PM
I’m still waiting to see some leadership from the Republican party. So far, you have a fragment here and a fragment there. But no big, bold solutions to the problems we face.
We are going to lose. And we deserve it for electing the leaders we have. Right now, both parties are incompetent and crazy.
ramrants on July 28, 2010 at 6:48 PM
You’re not going to Tea Parties and listening to both our elected GOP representatives and the candidates.
Candidates like Sharron Angle propose “big, bold solutions” and the Leftist MSM calls her a “nut.”
We’re not going to lose.
And we didn’t elect these “leaders,” who are leading us to Socialist hell!
Almost half the electorate did not vote for Oilbama.
The GOP is neither incompetent nor crazy and has done yeomens’ work holding back the disastrous DemocRat agenda as much as they can, given that we’re currently in the minority in both houses.
Jenfidel on July 28, 2010 at 6:54 PM
The TP has been hurt by no formal leadership. I know this is by design, but you basically have 3 factions of the “Tea Party”…and their views are not all the same.
The TP needs to go underground at this point and stay out of the media. They need to stop having rallies and start going door to door with their message. Instead of spending 8 hours on a Saturday, spend 8 hours walking a neighborhood armed with information about the Health Care law, cap and trade, new tax laws etc.
The media will do whatever it takes to destroy the TP and they need to recognize that and change their tactics.
ramrants on July 28, 2010 at 6:57 PM
Are you serious? “doing yeoman’s work holding back the disastrous dems”? Seriously? Do we live in the same country because if they have been doing yeomen’s work then how come we have a new health care law that is going to force me to give up my health care I like and go on a government run plan? Yeoman’s work? really? How do you explain the passage of cap and trade in the house? Or the government take over of student loans or GM or Chrysler? How about that bs Financial Reform bill that just passed? How about the Republican’s caving, once again, on unemployment benefit extensions that aren’t paid for? Would that be an example of the yeomen’s work the Republicans have been doing to beat back the Dems? Is that what you’re talking about?
ramrants on July 28, 2010 at 7:03 PM
Notice they didn’t put Sarah on that video? If she is so toxic, I wonder why she was left off.
Also, All those things they mentioned in the video – rush thinks we should embrace them. Conservatism wins every time it is tried.
McCain lost because he wimped out on TARP – he should have followed through on his vow to call out names on pork. For him to have allowed and encouraged that ridiculously monstrous bill to pass without calling out all the pork was his losing moment. All the good will be had built up the week before was pissed away in that moment.
Queen0fCups on July 28, 2010 at 7:14 PM
Are you serious? “doing yeoman’s work holding back the disastrous dems”? Seriously?
ramrants on July 28, 2010 at 7:03 PM
Jenfidel on July 28, 2010 at 7:16 PM
Its mincing metrosexual minstrel Michael Medved’s message, too -
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichaelMedved/2010/07/28/the_right_movement,_but_the_wrong_slogan/page/full
Quote
‘The Right Movement, But the Wrong Slogan’
If conservatives want to succeed in taking our government back, we need to drop the popular but misguided slogan about “taking our country back.” …
rayra on July 28, 2010 at 7:46 PM
It’s time conservatives stop whining about democrats using the race card and demand republican politicians answer why after decades of democrats using the race card they still live in terror of democrats using the race card? Don’t they know by now that whenever democrats are in trouble they play the race card?
Look, as long as republican politicians continue to bolt for the tall grass whenever a democrat use the race card they will continue to use the race card.
And why not? it works!
RMR on July 28, 2010 at 7:48 PM
Don’t you think a lot of the drop in Tea Party interest is because they haven’t been meeting? It’s hot, people are on vacation and there has been some serious talk about push back from the Left at the rallies. I think as the November gets closer they will come out in force again and put the issues front and center.
Cindy Munford on July 28, 2010 at 7:56 PM
Is that like the Beetlejuice trick to get the race card to come and call us all bigots?
Cindy Munford on July 28, 2010 at 7:58 PM
He said with glee, rubbing the bald head of his…Chinese Crested.
Extrafishy on July 28, 2010 at 8:02 PM
I agree with some of you – that ad should be morphed into a Republican ad! How funny…..they just don’t see it….most people WANT the healthcare bill repealed en toto. They want our country to stop spending money we don’t have. They want our nation to follow the Constitution. How out of touch are these guys?
All the polls I’ve seen quoted on Hot Air support my statements. Particular candidates go up and down, depending on the polling and the current media message. As November gets closer, we’ll have a better picture of the real landscape.
Take out the inflammatory words and clear falsehoods (like “reward those who caused the oil spill” or some such nonsense) and it’s a winner!
By the way – repealing the 17th amendment would be a great thing to restore the balance of power in DC. Senators would be more directly tied to the desires of their constituents. Wilson, the Progressive extraordinaire, knew what he was doing pushing for this Constitutional change……kinda like The Won knew what he was saying when he said, “We are only 3 [or was it 4?] days away from fundamentally transforming America!” Crazy like a fox, as the old saying goes.
Truer words were never spoken by Barack Hussein Obama.
DINORight on July 28, 2010 at 8:04 PM
Why is it whenever someone might slightly disagree with you or point out where you may be wrong, you question their motives?
Now,to your point about all that yeomen’s work being done….if Repubs leadership can’t convince 8 members of their own party not to vote for a new tax, they are either not working too hard or they are incompetent in their leadership abilities (which I believe was my original point). And if they can’t convince 7 Blue Dog Democrats to vote against Obamacare, again…they aren’t working hard enough or it is a lack in their leadership ability. I mean, the Democrats convinced 8 Republicans to vote for cap and trade. Why can’t the Republicans convince 7 Dems to vote against Obamacare?
Because there is NO LEADERSHIP. Convincing yourself otherwise isn’t going to help the Republicans win in November (or questioning people’s motives who point this out to you)…just as AP pointed out that people on here had convinced themselves up until election day that McCain was somehow going to magically win, even though the polls had him losing for weeks prior to the election.
Not being able to convince people in your own party to vote against crappy legislation is due to a lack of leadership. Not being able to convince conservative democrats to vote against crappy legislation is due to a lack of leadership.
Too bad you can’t see that because living in denial does nothing to help Republicans.
ramrants on July 28, 2010 at 8:14 PM
No it’s not. Angle and Reid are in a statistical tie – and here we are less than 100 days from the election and the incumbent has less than 50 percent of the polls and very high negatives.
You seem to completely ignore the fact that Reid is the most powerful Senator in the Senate. You ignore the fact that he has a huge war chest – and yet, here this “whacko” Tea Party lady comes along and is giving him a run for his money.
He’s going to lose.
The problem with the Democrats is, they think Americans like Obama and dislike the Tea Party. They’re going to find out they have the wagon hitched backwards.
HondaV65 on July 28, 2010 at 8:36 PM
Reid is comfortably ahead of Angle in a poll? Boxer is comfortably ahead of Carly in a poll?
Show me those polls.
HondaV65 on July 28, 2010 at 8:43 PM
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