Posted on 09/05/2010 7:10:54 PM PDT by sickoflibs
MATTHEWS: And “Let Me Finish” tonight with some advice on Democrats how they can deny Republicans all-out victory this November.
If the Republicans want to roll up the score, they`re on the right path. Energized by the Tea Party grassroots, driven by a nasty economy and by a ferocious propaganda campaign that paints the Democrat in the White House as a terrorist sympathizer, they can just keep doing what they`re doing.
Democrats have a tougher task. How to win when things are so darn bad? Well, the smart, tough, hard-nosed strategy is to play to your strengths.
Democrats have always been trusted first and foremost on the economic basics — bread and butter, looking out for people in trouble. They`re the party you vote for when you`re unemployed, when you`re really need unemployment insurance, when you`re worried about retiring and needing every cent of that Social Security check you spent your life working for.
Democrats are also the people you tend to trust when you see that the grand loudly promised benefits of globalism and greater productivity are going to the boys on Wall Street, when your factory is closing, when you`re being cut from a job you`ve spent decades doing your best at.
Well, look, this is going to be a tough year for the Democrats, but if they`re smart, they`ll start talking about real ways to create jobs, making steel to build rapid rail track and fast-moving trains, bringing big, big heavy, good-paying industrial jobs back to put men and women to work here in our American neighborhoods because of real capital investments and rebuilding our subways and bridges and road systems — real jobs to replace the smell of decay with the healthy smell of construction, of dirty being moved and foundations being laid and real, good old, almost forgotten factory noise.
Oh, you`ll be knocked for talking like this. You`ll be mocked by the smoother, better off critics out there. But the working people will hear you as real, and Mr. And Mrs. Democrat may well end up with a good piece of the political action, even this November — not only that, but one day, sooner than you think, with a place in the sun.
Democrats, did you hear me? Play your strengths: work and wages.
FROM THE START OF THE SHOW, THE UNION FOR THE UNEMPLOYED "WORKING AMERICAN' STRATEGY :
Let`s start with what labor is doing to help the Democrats. Karen Nussbaum`s the national director of Working America, a group affiliated with the AFL-CIO. And Dan Heck is a regional director of Working America in Columbus, Ohio.
Thank you, Karen, for joining us. What exactly is your effort, your strategy nationwide to get, well, working people to vote Democrat or to get involved politically, if you will?
KAREN NUSSBAUM, WORKING AMERICA: Well, it`s simple. It`s that we`re about jobs. We`re here to change this economy, to make sure that it`s working for working people. And it`s what we do all year `round, and now we`re doing it for the election. Working America is a union for folks who don`t have a union on the job. We`ve got three million members and we talk to tens of thousands of them every single week about jobs, the economy, outsourcing, tax cuts for the wealthy, and we know what matters to them.
MATTHEWS: Well, if you listen to that array, Dan, it sounds like people should automatically vote labor or vote Democrat if they`re working people — they don`t have a college degree, for example, and they`re working for a wage. But that`s not the situation, is it, right now.
According to the — let me show you this poll we`ve got from NBC/”Wall Street Journal.” It basically right now shows Republicans winning working class whites by 49 to 33, a 16-point spread, in the congressional ballot. When you ask them about Barack Obama, it`s just as bad. Basically, that`s an overwhelming — here it is. Those without a college degree, 33 percent, just a third of working people like President Obama, 59 percent, three out of ten — or three out of five, rather, disapprove of him. By the way, last year around the summertime, it was 41 disapprove — or 41 approve, 51 disapprove. It was nowhere near the margin it is right now.
How do you explain a 26-point differential negatively against the president among white working class people, Dan?
DAN HECK, OHIO WORKING AMERICA: I mean, I think what I know about it what we`re seeing in communities around Ohio and around the country. And people, you know, are concerned about outsourcing. They`re concerned about what Wall Street did to the economy. And what I know is when we talk to them about those things and we talk to them about what President Obama and what Democrats have done about those things, they`re supportive. We just need to make sure that we`re connecting to enough people with our message because it moves them. And I think working people are smart and they`ll figure out what`s going on.
MSNBC Hardball 9/1/2010 Full Transcript
All these Democrats are brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
They’re so brilliant, that they can never be understood by those idiots in flyover country because the idiots in flyover country don’t think, they just hang onto their bibles and guns.
/SARCASM/
Hey Chrissie Matthews, do you do even a modicum of research? Untold millions of people are unemployed because of government. Do you know the the main job killers are government rules and regulations, high taxes and the current anti-American, anti-small business administration? If I was unemployed I would Vote Republican to give Small Businesses a jump start. Small Businesses have had to tighten their belts, lay off people, shut down their R&D, in essence have Gone Galt waiting for the current administration to expire. Chrissie, Businesses hire people, they create a Job - that's what the unemployed want, a Job. Duh. . .
And I think working people are smart and they`ll figure out what`s going on.
fool me once, shame on you
fool me twice, shame on me.
I am just finding out that they are sue happy.
I like getting the paper though, and it is the only local one.
This unemployed won’t vote ‘Rat. Never. Never. NEVER.
The tingle in Chrissy’s leg must have take permanent root in his head.
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. -- G. Gordon Liddy
The unemployed voting Democrat this November is classic masochism and Stockholm Syndrome.
You see what sex(tingle)-starvation is doing to Chrissy’s brain?
Chrissie says, “Vote for the guys who threw you out of your job.”
Yeah, sure.
Hey, Chrissie. Would you vote for me if I threw you out of YOUR job?
The Demonrats!!!
Yes, business doesn't want to hire them back either.
I can't believe they are using a NEGATIVE like THIS to get votes. It's Obama and the Demoncrats that helped get you unemployed and the economy is still in the toiled. How bad does it have to get for even the dumbest Demoncrapper to get it?
That was not the comment she made that hurt her the most. She made a comment about the unemployed being spoiled. I don't care if many freepers think this is true. It was a very stupid thing to say in a state NV where the unemployment rate is 15%, and she needs their votes. Las Vegas very high unemployment is mostly due to housing over-development not laziness. She gave democrats endless political ammunition with this statement, they use it all the time.
Harry Reid has so many weaknesses, all Angle has to do is play clips of him talking but I dont see it, Do you ? .
This is what passed for sound political strategy in Democratic circles.
They just don’t understand the American dream is not growing old on the dole.
The old anti-drug commercial where nobody dreams of growing up a junkie, should be, nobody dreams of growing up Bolshecrat.
Oh goody ... more "shovel ready" jobs!
Never ceases to amaze me how completely out-of-touch these people really are.
Did anyone tell Chrissy that people are now getting unemployment insurance benefits for 93 WEEKS. They need JOBS.
That's right Chrissy. Tell grandma she won't get her check if Republicans get elected. They'll steal that gold-plated retirement Democrats have given her. (Never mind that deep inside she knows she's been ripped-off.)
Not really.
There are a multitude of ways to game the system, and those ways are written into the system by bureaucrats who took those actions with eyes wide open.
I.e, the system is meant to be self perpetuating, not to seek out & stop individuals from the type of activity that you mention, but to keep the system truckin, to use the vernacular.
So why aren’t they watching your show Cwissy?
Pray for America
can’t listen to Chrissy; makes me wanna shoot the TV something fierce.
Amen Chrissy! Why that unemployment rate keeps dropp...err...ummm...
ROTFLMAO
I will enjoy watching MSNBC, on November 3...very, very much...
Republican campaign message:
“If you vote for the democrat, s/he wil vote for SPEAKER PELOSI”
Excellent point and on Fox Business News, it was pointed out that within 2 weeks of unemployment benefits running out, qualified workers find employment.
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