Posted on 10/07/2010 7:32:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
DUBUQUE, IOWA — Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell is throwing down the gauntlet in the first-in-the-nation state of Iowa.
The former Philadelphia mayor and chairman of the Democratic National Committee is calling on Democrats to help him match the political star power of Sarah Palin.
In an e-mail to Iowa Democrats, the tough-talking Rendell is promising to draw a bigger crowd at the state party's upcoming Jefferson-Jackson dinner than Palin was able to muster at the GOP's annual Ronald Reagan dinner last month.
"Sarah Palin was able to get 1,300 people to show up at the Republican Party of Iowa’s dinner last month. I can do better than that at this year’s Jefferson-Jackson dinner," Rendell predicts in a message to drum up interest in the Oct. 16 event, where he is the keynote speaker.
Late Wednesday, Iowa Democrats said they were only 250 tickets from surpassing the turnout for Palin. Rendell said besting the GOP's attendance mark would "send Republicans and tea partiers a message," and then went on to take a swipe at the former vice presidential nominee.
"While Palin has offered nothing but extreme rhetoric and a repackaging of failed Bush-era policies, Democrats have provided real leadership, and our nation is better off because of it. As someone who has served at all levels of government, I can spot a real leader when I see it, and Sarah Palin is anything but that," he wrote...
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YES. I’d pay to see it. I’d pay to see it again.
He's always nauseated me. And he's been a disaster of a governor. It will take PA a long time to dig out of the damage Governor Cheesesteak has wrought.
I take comfort in the fact that some of the stench emanating from Harrisburg will dissipate once Tom Corbett takes office in January.
Perhaps Fast Eddie should spend a little more time trying to save PA from utter ruin and wait until he is no longer governor before moving on to his next job.
Oh, and if Ed, his judge spouse or the teamsters are reading this, eat sh#t and die. [Sidebar: I post with my real name a$$holes]
5.56mm
Rendell is so full of shite that you can smell it when he appears on TV. Typical Dim.
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