Posted on 12/15/2009 1:00:18 PM PST by mdittmar
Sen. John Kerry's new fundraising letter seeks to make a bogeyman of Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement and rally liberals for the 2010 midterm elections.
A new fundraising letter from Sen. John Kerry (D) of Massachusetts gives a strong hint about how Democrats may try to stir their base to action during the 2010 election season: scare them with the prospect of a Sarah Palin nation.
“Think GOP obstruction is bad now?” Senator Kerry asks in a fundraising letter sent out Tuesday morning by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. “Just imagine what Washington would look like if a bunch of new senators – inspired by Sarah Palin and the tea party crowd – took over.”
In recent months, the political right has been energized by Ms. Palin, whose "Going Rogue" book tour has boosted her favorability rating, and by the Tea Party movement, which has channeled the anger of fiscal conservatives outraged by Obama administration spending. Together, they kindle the worst political fears among many liberals, summoning visions of gun-toting, Glenn Beck-watching, right-wing radicals.
With the Democratic caucus holding 60 seats in the Senate – exactly the number needed to defeat a Republican filibuster – Kerry suggested in his letter that "the loss of even one or two would flip crucial votes in their favor and doom President Obama’s agenda.”
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i wasnt aware of palin running for office in 2010
Only beat you by 4 minutes!!
That seems like a winning strategy - alienate the Independents and Unaffiliated.
darn dialup connection;)
“Just imagine what Washington would look like if a bunch of new senators – inspired by Sarah Palin and the tea party crowd – took over.”
Gee, I don’t know, maybe the opposite of what we have in there now. Oh the horror.
I supposedly have broadband, but you couldn’t prove it by me, especially during these heavy rain storms here in Biloxi.
i wasnt aware of palin running for office in 2010
I guess horseface doesn’t have anything positive to say for himself. Clever guy, eh?
Is she running? I don’t think she will run until 2016. and then be President from 2016 until 2024...that sounds very good. 2012 to 2020 sounds good too but still believe she will hold off until 2016.
I wasn’t aware Sarah was running for anything at the moment?
“Just imagine what Washington would look like if a bunch of new senators – inspired by Sarah Palin and the tea party crowd – took over.”
I believe that is what our Founders envisioned:
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Haha.. Flipper is Afraid!
Kerry correctly figured that Palen has shot way more weapons than that limp-wristed little frump ever did. The people of Massachusetts surely have a very large mental problem...Kerry, Dead Ted, Frank.
“Doom the Presidents agenda”? That’s the most important thing Kerry has said since he got in office. He gives us something to work on. Poor guy doesn’t know what he’s doing.
It would be best for her to be VP for 2 terms, then run for Pres, giving her 16 years to clean out the elitists in DC.
Before that, however, she needs to lead the charge on cleaning out the elitists from the GOP.
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