Claire McCaskill: I wouldn’t invite Obama to campaign with me this year

Hotair ^ | 02/11/2014 | Ed Morrissey

[SeekAndFind]

Fortunately for Claire McCaskill, she doesn’t have to make that call in 2014, thanks to a narrow escape in Missouri’s 2012 Senate election. If she did have to campaign in the post-ObamaCare rollout environment, though, McCaskill would know better than to invite a deeply unpopular President to accompany her while making a pitch for another six years in office, she tells Morning Joe (via Mediaite):

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MARK HALPERIN: Senator, Mark Halperin here. If you were running for re-election in Arkansas, Louisiana or North Carolina, would you invite the president and campaign side-by-side with him?

CLAIRE MCCASKILL: You know, probably not. I mean, I try to be really candid and honest on this show. The president’s numbers are not strong in my state or in Arkansas or Louisiana or North Carolina. He did not win those states when he ran for re-election in 2012, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t win. These candidates in those states are strong candidates. They have been an independent voice for their states. They know how to stay on offense and talk about the Republicans shutting down the government, and the Republicans marginalizing great, hardworking people who come to this country wanting nothing more than be a part of the American dream. So I don’t — I think this issue of whether or not you have Obama come to your state is something we like to focus on in Washington, but probably is not that important when you get out to these states.

Note the one issue McCaskill omits in this defense of her “independent” colleagues? ObamaCare, for which all of them voted, and for which all will be held accountable in the post-rollout disaster. McCaskill tips the hand that Democrats will try and play in that environment — immigration and the GOP shutdown that was forgotten almost as soon as it ended, thanks in large part to … ObamaCare.

Good luck with that strategy. The shutdown will be a barely-remembered Beltway chess match, and immigration largely theoretical for the vast majority of the electorate. But ObamaCare will be hitting the pocketbooks of most Americans this year, thanks to rapid increases in premiums and lack of access to providers. They can try to avoid it all they want, but voters want accountability for the massive government incompetence unleashed by these Senate Democrats. Barack Obama will be at every campaign appearance in the political sense, even if he’s holed up in the White House from now until the second week of November.

[pepsionice]

Maybe it’s just me...but other than attending fund-raising dinners in LA and NY City...is there any candidate in the entire US for governor, senator or representative...who’d like for him to show up?

I think he will try to rig up as many fake dinners as possible in September and October....just to act fake-busy, but the truth is....he’s not a political asset anymore, and his folks in the high levels of the party are going to be kicked out quickly come the 2016 election.

[stanne]

Maybe they don’t even have the motivation to rig this election. The pres one is easy, just focus on a few districts, like in Ohio.

But maybe they just don’t want to go along with all this transformation crap it’s got to scare them.

The republicans, no, they’re too busy working for their people at the CoC

[BFM]

"I wouldn’t invite Obama to campaign with me this year

Isn't that RACIST? Isn't that what Dems would claim if a Repub made that statement... that it's RACIST. Would appear to be clear evidence that McCaskell, at least, is a RACIST. At least, by Dem standards...

[centurion316]

I don’t think that Claire had Obama campaign for her in 2012. Of course, she didn’t need to, she had Todd Akin doing everything that he could do to get her elected.

[The South Texan]

If the GOP would have nominated a fence post last election, Claire would be an ex Senator. Instead, they nominated an idiot and kept him on the ballot because he said something that every GOP male should have known back then or at least know that any question regarding Abortion and rape is a trap. And instead of using a standard response to defuse the motivations of the questioner, they expand on it and then find themselves up to their ears in media Bullshit.

The GOP should take a lesson from the Democrats and learn how to repeat a party line so to speak when it comes to this issue at the very least. Likewise the establishment in each state needs to take a lesson from the likes of the Rats in New Jersey when they “asked” Torcelli to dropout when he got in some hot water. And the GOP wonders why the rank and file ridicule them as the Stupid Party or a party without Balls.

[Servant of the Cross]

Note the one issue McCaskill omits in this defense of her “independent” colleagues? ObamaCare, for which all of them voted, and for which all will be held accountable in the post-rollout disaster. McCaskill tips the hand that Democrats will try and play in that environment — immigration and the GOP shutdown that was forgotten almost as soon as it ended, thanks in large part to … ObamaCare.

Strategy note to GOP House and Senate candidates: Focus on 0bamacare, debt ceiling, Dem scandals, anti-Constitutional actions of OccupyWH.

When the press tries to goad you into other areas, say you're campaigning on priorities, not distractions.

And don't let them say the "GOP shutdown". First, it wasn't the GOP's. Second, it wasn't the 'Armageddon' the Dems threatened even given all of 0bama's intentionally inflicted pain (visual - U.S. Vets barricaded out of their own Memorials!)

[Uncle Chip]

So What —

It still does not keep her or any other Obama sycophants from defending his programs and cuddling up with everything he does.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

ObamaCare

The Democrats should be made to wish the Republicans were talking about “ObamaCare.” In every state with a Democrat incumbent senator is running for reelection, the “Affordable Care” Act should be named in “honor” of that senator.