Posted on 10/10/2010 5:10:05 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, October 10th, 2010
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Reps. Eric Cantor, R-Va., and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.; political strategists Karl Rove and Joe Trippi.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Illinois Senate nominees Mark Kirk, a Republican, and Alexi Giannoulias, a Democrat.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Presidential adviser David Axelrod; former Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Connecticut Senate nominees Linda McMahon, a Republican, and Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat; former President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan; French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Reps. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.; former CIA Director Michael Hayden.
Well goodness SW.....I mean just goodness.
I think your comment is a bit of an over-reaction.
It’s to be expected that there’s some disarray over the transition.
Hey, I shall ignore you because I think your comment was way over the top.
And hey, here YOU are putting this out on a public forum when you could have sent your comment Freepmail in keeping with your opinion.
I adore Christine O’Donnell, consider her like a daughter.
My comments weren’t untoward, cruel or anything but in passing.
Speaking of spin and projection - - this just takes the cake for the Dims hitting a new low. The Pubbies better hit back fast and hard!
Dems Anti-GOP ‘Stealing Democracy’ Ad Features Purse Snatching and Chinese Cash
Sunday, October 10, 2010 | Kristinn
Posted on Sunday, October 10, 2010 8:45:17 AM by kristinn
The Democratic National Committee has a new ad that sinks to new lows in political hypocrisy and agit-prop for a mainstream national party. The ad literally accuses Republicans of ‘stealing our democracy’, illustrated by showig a man ripping a purse from a woman and running away.
The ad also falsely accuses Republicans and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce with using foreign money to fund their political activities. The ad features Chinese paper money in a counting machine flashing large images of Chairman Mao Tse Tung. This from the party that took millions of dollars in Chinese cash during the Clinton presidency and was given a record fine by the Federal Elections Commission.
more here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2604888/posts
Well, turning over to the private sector would do better than her public sector. Why can’t we have a choice to do w/our $$ WasterMan.
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So let me put my story out about my granddaughter, Christine O’Donnell and Dutch Wonderland before I say something else to bring me undeserved criticism.
And let me clarify right now that I do NOT consider the O’Donnell campaign to be in disarray. In my anecdote I cited a quote from a volunteer conference call of an intent to GO AROUND the paid staff. This is just plain wrong but it was nought but an idle comment.
At that point I abstained from any more conference calls.
I have little experience with political campaigns, but logic tells me that when you phase from volunteers, nice people who worked so hard to win, to a paid staff...this sort of thing is probably the norm.
By me, the O’Donnell campaign is doing just fine. I like the two commercials she’s put out as of yet although I am chomping at the bit for the campaign to go after Coons a bit more.
And for the record, the Coons campaign is putting out commercials pretty much like O’Donnells. They have him sitting with a group of what appears to be concerned citizens. He talks about taxes, yielding to be Big business, that kind of thing. HIS commercials do not, as of yet, go after O’Donnell.
There are commercials by the Senate campaign staffs going after O’Donnell and Coons but so far each candidate is presenting themselves as low-key, personable, not prone to nastiness.
I suspect, but do not know for sure, that within the last week or two we’ll start to see a bit more vitriol from the candidates.
The story below as I pasted on Facebook. Just a harmless anecdote about mean liberals.
Next morning, we are ready to go to the Amusement park and as God is my witness, the child pulls out a pair of boot-type shoes, boots with tops that stop right above the ankles, with two inch heels that I used to call “Cuban” heels, complete with little bling thingies around the ankle area.
“I’m going to wear my high heels, Mom!” Kaitlyn shouted, pulling out these godawful things and I pondered who on earth would design such a thing for little children. “I wore them to the carnival, Mom-Mom, and I could get on every ride!”
Dawn broke over my slow-to-comprehend grandmotherly head.
For all of these places with rides have those measurement type of things, generally upright rulers of some sort affixed to a wall next to the ride. In some fashion, an indicator of just where the tops of the heads of would-be riders must be, is indicated on the ruler. Kaitlyn, deceitful as a child with a plan can be, determined she would wear those “high heels” and no ride would be denied her. IF the ride is a rocket trip to the moon, she wants to be on it, preferably without an adult co-rider.
Of course her mother, and me a little bit, refused that the child will wear those shoes while traipsing around an amusement park all day, dear Lord she’d be in agony halfway through the day. Kaitlyn pouted and cried but sanity prevailed.
Dutch Wonderland too had those ruler things on the rides, they being marked using some kind of “gem” system. Kaitlyn fell solidly in the “sapphire” category and thus was allowed on most rides. A few, however, were of the “ruby” height requirement and Kaitlyn’s head fell about three inches below this gem. When the ride operator asked Kaitlyn to stand in front of the ruler, she would quickly stand up against it, then just as quickly turn around and point out that her head hit the ruler at, well imagine that, right where the RUBY marker was. In reality, her head was at least three inches BELOW the ruby marker.
This was, as yon reader might imagine, a blatant lie. It was no mind as the ride operators have those separate measurement rods for their rides and alas, Kaitlyn had to ride the RUBY ride accompanied by an adult.
I laughed with daughter that someday Kaitlyn might run for Senator for Delaware. At which time some News Journal reporter will find that ride operator and with great flourish will publish the scoop…KAITLYN FREY CAUGHT IN LIE ABOUT HER HEIGHT IN ORDER TO FOOL RIDE OPERATORS AT AMUSEMENT PARK. The subtitle would be…”We understand this is not the first time Kaitlyn got caught in a big lie”.
Well hahaha….actually I told this rather cute little story on a local Delaware political bulletin board on which I post. Man there’s a liberal woman on that board, mean and nasty as are most liberals. The story was supposed to be, for the liberals reading this who don’t much understand the language, an anecdote about Christine O’Donnell and her witch dalliance story.
This liberal woman, a mean and very unhappy person by her comments and damn you’d think she’d go and be unhappy and mean on a liberal Blog but no, they aren’t happy unless they make the rest of the world miserable like they are, evidently read my innocent little story of 6 year old Kaitlyn and the height requirements.
Anyway, she reads the above cute story and as is mean and nasty, and naturally not wishing me to make any sort of point about how stupid liberals were about that witch story, right after my anecdote above, guess what she says?
“Obviously the child has parental discipline issues. Children at this age should know about lying.”
She makes my point quite well. For I must suppose her child, which she has one, has never, even at age six, did such things as lie about her height or goodness wear deceitful high heels for fooling ride operators.
It’s exactly why the witch story got traction. Because they have nothing else but silliness and mindless attacks as their defense.
For sure they can’t defend their guys’ record, the awful shape of the world, the economy….from Obama to Coons.
So they have to say stupid and mean stuff. Like Christine O’Donnell is a witch. Like Kaitlyn Mae needs disciplining.
It must be awful to live a life so full of such hate when you think about it.
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My rule of thumb: Whatever Dems accuse Pubbies of doing is always what the accusers have done and are doing.
Did you catch the interview w/Maddow and the guy from Oregon? He beat her like a runnaway mule.
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If Bush only gave tax cuts for the rich, why were they debating keeping the tax cuts for the middle class? In 4
weeks they are going to get a dose of humility.
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Here’s a related thread that includes Rove’s and Axelrod’s statements re the Pubbies and Chamber of Commerce ad financing:
Rove claims Obama ‘enemies list’
Politico ^
Posted on Sunday, October 10, 2010 8:22:02 AM by Sub-Driver
Karl Rove charged Sunday that President Barack Obama has an “enemies list,” after the White House escalated its argument that Rove and others are orchestrating a flood of midterm-election ads paid for by unknown donors.
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Rove, in an e-mail to POLITICO, said: ““It is sad to see the president diminish his office by these baseless attacks. Even the truth doesn’t restrain him when it comes to assaulting his enemies list.”
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On CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday, White House senior adviser David Axelrod told Bob Schieffer: “Why not simply disclose where this money is coming from? And then all of these questions’ll be answered. … [T]hese interest groups … are now the major force in some of these campaigns … This issue of this special-interest spending is VERY important. It’s never happened before, that organizations are spending this kind of money.”
As I recall, much of the money received by the democrats in recent years came from suspected Chinese sources or arrived mysteriously from small Internet donations with no trail.
10 posted on Sunday, October 10, 2010 8:31:27 AM by oldbrowser (Barack the Bungler must step down.)
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I agree these things need to be exposed and countered but we cannot spend too much time doing it. Daily, more voters know many of these things are totally untrue and outright lies.
Democrats pay the politics of personal destruction on a daily basis. I still like the “guilt” comment earlier. For charges like this, I’d like to see candidates say “that’s just your guilt talking” or some such thing, and move up to the real issues and pointing out the Democrats real record.
Yes, I could have asked via Freepmail, but I also wanted to see if I was the only one who thought your comments were giving ammunition to the enemy. I guess I am since no one else has weighed in, so I'll shut up now and fade back into the background....
I never watch Madcow - who was the guy from OR? Was it someone running for office? Given that I’m a neighbor, I’ve been keeping an eye on the races in OR.
Looks like you have a chance of geting a Republican gov (fingers crossed). And, Cook just move OR-5 to toss-up:
http://blog.oregonlive.com/mapesonpolitics/2010/10/cook_report_schrader-bruun_rac.html
IF my comments are giving ammunition to the enemy...well they’d have to be desperate.
No need to fade away in the background.
But please let me clarify, again, that my offhand, perhaps ill-thought I suppose, comment, was in no way meant to convey disaray in the O’Donnell campaign.
Simply because it’s doing just fine.
Although....hey, I’m hardly any kind of insider so bear that in mind yon readers.
;)
THAT is one comment I plan on remembering and using. Thanks.
Here it is, pure video gold:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/66944.html
Good post! The Pubbie candidates and the rest of us should adapt your suggestions!
;o)
"Instead they’d like to reduce each race for the House and Senate to the personal level. Their aim is to emphasize the individual flaws of Republican candidates. In the Democratic game plan, the economy and national issues are taboo.
"This microstrategy is one of pure desperation. It’s all that’s left when macro-political trends are going against you. Indeed, Democrats start with two strikes against them. A midterm election is usually a referendum on the president’s performance, and this year’s is no exception. And the most important measure of the president’s success or failure is the condition of the economy.
You also have to realize nobody is polling Oregon. I would guess OR 1 is toss up also but the turnout should be pretty strong our way. I live in a swing district and it is getting very interesting for our locals.
Their only hope is Fraud by Mail.
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Yes, and the GOP response should ALWAYS be:
"NO, that's a lie! That's what you guys are doing, and I can prove it. Don't be projecting that crap on us."
But usually the GOP guy just sits there, smiles and looks stupid.
“NO, that’s a lie! That’s what you guys are doing, and I can prove it. Don’t be projecting that crap on us.”
Now, that’s the right tone, Rocklobster!
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