Exclusive: NRCC Memo Reveals GOP Plan to Hit Candidates Who’ve Endorsed Obama [Update]
By SusanUnPC on May 4, 2008 at 4:29 PM in Barack Obama, DNC, Democrats, Louisiana, Nancy Pelosi
| From North Carolina to Washington state, the GOP is already running TV ads that tie Barack Obama’s negatives to down-ticket Democratic candidates.
So far, the GOP ads favor tying local candidates to Obama’s longtime association with his radical, anti-American, racist preacher, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. |
Louisiana congressional candidate Don Cazayoux squeaked through because he is a conservative, pro-life candidate, but he experienced a precipitous drop in polling after the Obama negative ads ran, and won the race narrowly.
No Quarter has obtained a memorandum from the NRCC Communications Division on its strategy:
TO: Interested Parties FROM: NRCC Communications Division SUBJECT: NRCC Memo: LA-06 Special Election Results DATE: May 3, 2008 ________________________________
There is something to be learned from tonight’s results. When Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi were introduced into this campaign, Don Cazayoux was leading by a large margin in the polls. Since then, Republicans saturated the Baton Rouge airwaves in an effort to nationalize this contest and make the election about the real life consequences of a Barack Obama presidency and a continued Pelosi-run Democratic Congress. In that time, Republicans made substantial ground.
This election speaks to the potential toxicity of an Obama candidacy and the possible drag he could have down-ballot this fall.
We have already seen this impact another congressional race as a Democratic candidate for Congress in Mississippi is denying that he was ever endorsed by Barack Obama. In fact, he has referenced any mention of it by Republicans as an “attack.” And, across the country, Democrats in swing districts still refuse to publicly endorse the candidacy of Barack Obama.
By nature, special elections tend to be competitive and their results are not always a harbinger for the November elections, but what we do know is that a Democrat was clearly favored to easily win this election before Republicans invoked the names of Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi. This should come as a warning shot to Democrats. The elitist behavior of the Democratic frontrunner and the liberal and extremist positions that he and his fellow Democrats in Congress have staked their claim to, do not appear to be as salient as they once hoped.
Election Results Roundup
The following are the unofficial results from Saturday’s special elections in Louisiana.
These results are UNOFFICIAL AND INCOMPLETE until certified by the Louisiana Secretary of State:
DISTRICT/NAME RAW VOTE PERCENTAGE District 1: Steve Scalise (R) 33,867 75.13%
(DECLARED WINNER)Gilda Reed (D) 10,142 22.5% Precincts Reporting: 505 of 505 District 6: Louis “Woody” Jenkins (R) 46,741 46.27% Don Cazayoux (D) 49,702 49.2%
(DECLARED WINNER)Precincts Reporting: 512 of 512
Emphases added.
UPDATE: SEE V’s story, “Obamatross,” published here at No Quarter on May 2, 2008. The first paragraph:
Even if the people smoking hopium won’t see or admit it, the GOP has figured out who they want to run against. The AP reports that Obama is being linked to local candidates to drag them down and stomp on them and boost their candidates. Here is an example of an ad using Obama and his 20-yr spiritual mentor, Rev. Wright to bash Democrat Travis Childers: …
But it didn’t work on Cazayoux.. He was elected to a seat that republicans have held for 20+ years…
Doesn’t that prove this theory is kind of crap??
No, because if you look at Cazayoux positions, he’s going to be another Dem in name only and ran a far right campaign. They couldn’t stick him with Obama because he never endorsed him. As the presidential candidate, then ALL of these candidates will have to choose or loose.
It didn’t work….
You’re missing the point. These candidates are REFUSING to admit being supportive of Obama. And in the case of Cazayoux, this is troubling because he was leading by a 10 point margin for a long time. He ended up winning by only 3 points. And Cazayoux is conservative. If there was a place to test the waters, this was it. Jenkins was outspent 4 to 1 and had huge negatives. So WTF happened? The dems will need to spend SERIOUS cash to keep dems in office. $1.7 million for a down ticket office? That’s fine for now, but how long can they hold this up?
And let me say it again, Cazayoux is NOT a dem. He is a conservative. He only ran AS a dem. And most of these offices are up for reelection before the year is out.
Don’t waste a lot of facts on the obamabrats. Facts are not their friends. They probably think that Nancy PeePee is the problem.
Besides, we millions of Clinton supporters didn’t get to vote like we will in November.
Let’s see, rounded off, Hillary has, what, round to 14 million voters–without Florida and Michigan? And 32 percent of them say they will never vote for Barky? Without even including those 2 million florida people and half million michigan people, a third of 14 million alone is 4.6 million democrats not voting for Obama, ever. Toss in those PO’d people from Florida and Michigan or don’t, Obama has a problemo and he’s going to keep it.
How many Rebuplicans does it take to make a nervous Barky?
One “wuff”.
you’re correct. Somehow that got cut out of my story when I was editing. he is PRO-LIFE, and very CONSERVATIVE. Big difference from most Democratic candidates.
Just the fact that he had to deny he was endorsed by Obama, should freak you out. Obama is becoming toxic and guess what, he doesn’t give a flying fig. Just as long as he’s POTUS, Obama will throw anybody, ANYBODY under the bus.
And everyone knows it and my intuition is screaming at me Obama’s campaign is almost over. The D party officials are just planning the cover story at this point. We’ll see, but that’s what I feel.
No. If you read the piece again, without bias, you’ll see that Cazayoux had a much more impressive margin until he was “attacked” by his association with Obama. The fact that a Dem had to reject Obama in order to get elected, tells you how radioactive Obama has gotten to the Party.
That’s the point. Are you deliberately trying to be obtuse? I mean.. is that your point in commenting? Because the information I read here explains it perfectly. Let’s not forget that it was found that Obama voters did not vote down the ticket in many instances, that does not bode well for us in November.
Correct, and they know how damaging this information is in the minds of thousands of people running for office. Obama’s candidacy is toast. He has become the albatross of everyone running for office in the D party. This is what my gut says.
I think GOP should not get Pelosi in this … If GOP had just had Obama the ad would have been more effective .. infact have his pastor and ayers in the ad.
Perhaps the soft sell was for testing purposes.
ie Hypothesis; If they kept the amp’s to minimum what was the bang for the buck?
Gives ‘em an soft baseline to figure where to expend resourses.
It says the OBVIOUS, doesn’t it?!!! Obama is UNelectable! The GOP is waiting for him with a machine gun nest if he should be led out of the trenches and across the ‘no-mans’ land of the Dem nomination!!! Superdelagates et al, WAKE UP!!!!
BRILLIANT !……WELL DONE….
But I still wonder… WHY is the GOP showing their hand… They MUST believe he is more of a threat that Hillary… (!)… It’s weird, isn’t it?!!
No they don’t see Obama as more of a threat than Hillary, couldn’t be further from the truth. They’re doing this now because it suits their needs NOW. They’re praying for an Obama nomination, seriously. They must be laughing their asses off at the Dem Party who seems to be hellbent on repeating the same mistakes again and again.
Dean and the Elites don’t seem to grasp who and what the Democratic TWO-TERM president was. The elites notwithstanding, America has moved toward the middle even more after 9/11.
It is just irrational that they have seen the hand of cards they can expect and are going to sit down at the table and tell the dealer to deal the cards … It is like a death wish …. No victories in November in a number of elections.
“”The elites notwithstanding, America has moved toward the middle even more after 9/11.”"
Aye I agree with this…
I think America has moved to the right, past the middle,in some sublte ways.
What were the underlining definitions of democracy remain, but democrats have had to attempt to reconcile these disparites of 9/11 within and between the socialist wing and national security dems.
The problem then is, it widens and accenuates the cravass between distinct divisions in the Demacratic party. In to this cravass falls the cash of unknown special interests. The ones we know about in Obama’s case reach into the middle east in very disturbing ways.
I think they’re also assuming he will be the nominee because they feel the Dems are terrified of antagonizing AA supporters, and women are much easier to woo to McCain than AA voters are. We threw it to Bush in 04, after all.
I wonder too if they aren’t figuring what I’m figuring to myself: whichever candidate is the worst possible choice in the universe is the one the Dems will pick. They have an almost flawless record of choosing complete failures — which points to Obama getting the nod, so they are assuming it’ll be him, as well as using him for the moment because he is incredibly useful to them.
Too true.
As someone here said, “The Heaven’s Gate Dems.”
I have not heard that. It is so sad and so true.
Look they are seizing an opportunity….and the GOP is thinking ahead..
The GOP does’nt think in single election cycles…The GOP thinks in ERAS.
To them which ever Democrat is running is tied to a party in DISARRAY.
A party incapapble of governing….The stated Goal of The GOP is to gain a PERMANENT MAJORITY IN BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS…
you are the victim of a logical fallacy, that because they are using it now they cant use it later. they are using it now so they can use it later, the press will be desensitized to the overtly racist nature of their attacks and they will be pounding it home with abandon. what they do is not complicated, they find something with emotional resonance, preferably something racist, something simple for the simpletons in the press to remember and then they repeat it, over and over. they assume obama is too far ahead to be stopped or the fix is in, whatever, they have no fear
And when that doesn’t work, they just fix the final vote totals, cheating the old fashioned way.
Ah, LOL.
But they TELL themselves they won, their system works, and they’re unbeatable, then they go start wars with Iraq, using, essentially, the same applied strategy.
Cause they can conquer the world with this…
heh.
Perfectly put! Excellent analysis of it — you’re right, nothing precudes them from using it again. They’re just warmin’ up!
No they just know what dipwads the DNC people are and figure they will nominate him even if he is now officially toxic waste.
They are selectively test-marketing themes now. These are no more than probing attacks. When the true battle begins, it will be a Blitzkrieg.
Another interesting feint is the “public-finance” issue. Again, the GOP wants Obama, this time because they want Obama to reject public funding. That allows McCain to do the same. In the GE, if it’s privately funded between Obama and McCain, seriously, who do you think will have the most money? Daddy Warbuck’s purse strings will be loosened, bet on it.
The Hope-apalooza is going to look a possum on the highway.
I agree with the test marketing and probing. Also for local races, they are afraid they will lose that window of opportunity if they wait. Hannity started the Wright thing to weaken Obama but now the local races have picked it up and it may be hard for GoP to put it back the genie back. That is what we saw with NC gov race. In any case hopefully DNC will wake up and drop this gutless wonder (like Susan likes to call him).
Oh dear, I hope I’m not becoming a Republican?? Because I too want to attack candidates who support Obama, LOL.
Actually, I’m so angry with our governor for endorsing Obama,I don’t want to help re-elect her. I’m furious right down to our county commissioner and I don’t want to send him money, I don’t want to volunteer for his campaign.
Hell of a unity candidate, isn’t he? I guess in a way Obama is uniting people. We’re starting to unite against him.
True — he’s uniting us all under the elephant.
McCain’s promised to close Guantanamo and doesn’t like torture. That’s a step up from where we are now.
I could easily be a Republican on election day if my choice is Barky or the Old Man.
Not me, the republicans are as filthy as they come, and not to impressive intellectually.
No thanks.
Rove is a joke.
Just because the democrats are too removed from reality to beat him, doesn’t indicate superior reasoning abilities, or say much about his overall abilities. ROVE:MORON is not a game plan.
Really, I was reading about his general AMWAY “war” theory, and there are more holes in it than a 1950’s moth eaten wool sweater.
Kinda like his brain.
If they’re so good, why are they struggling to survive, why haven’t they been able to effect any change?
Why would I want to be associated with that crap?
Well for those who can’t hold their noses, there is always the write-in hillary movement.
You know, we keep cycling until we get it right.
At a certain point, the people of this country have to be able to see through the Roves, and Axelrod’s, the corruption, and simply shut them down, making their tactics unacceptable, illegal, if the country is to thrive.
It’s a democracy…
Obama has been in my view subverting the democratic process to the breaking point. This is why I see a mass defection of SD’s coming as soon as cover is created for them.
I also think the RNC would rather have a President Hillary than a President McCain if it means stopping Obama from doing any more damage right now. They see the danger of Obama and they may be politicians and party loyalists but they are not suicidal.
Just some food for thought.
yepper uppity and that is exactly what I am doing as I can’t vote for Obama *Ayers, Khalidi, Said, Wright, Meek, Auchi, Dohrn,..and so many more the repubs just touched the tip of the iceberg on Obama and the two or three candidates that were trying to run their own campaigns all of a sudden found themselves caught up in Rev Wright hate America stuff, they RAN RAN I say away from Obama they don’t know him and they didn’t endorse him etc etc..
No down ticket draw with this scenario and this like I said just tip of iceberg they have a whole jacket full of crap on this man that public knows little about..anyone imagine the Bill Ayers connection in the ads come fall..OMG..well uppity I cannot in good conscience vote for this man..I have no idea who he is or what he believes and oh poor Michelle is so upset and Barack can hardly hold his anger back but, he is putting his country ahead of his own ego and feelings..
WHO BELIEVES THIS CRAP… he has never put anyone first except himself..So I will be a Hillary write in along with my family and friends are doing the same..
We are voting in the beauty contest May 13th here a *primary* they will find out where the real vote should have been..
We are still believers that Hillary has to pull this off and will be going to South Dakota to help there..made calls and DONATE every bit that I can as I don’t want to feel I didn’t do all I could and if my 50 here and 25 there giving on different sites that will double the amount for Hillary..
so go Hillary..
Hillary was GREAT at JJ dinner tonight and if I am not hulucenating..I don’t believe Obama had the great response that he has had in other venues the crowd seemed more subdued and not as loud as usual..
ANYONE ELSE FEEL THE SAME THING
woman vet for Hillary
concerned american
It’s Hillary or McCain. I will never cast a vote for Fluff! The man can’t make good judgments how in God’s name can he run the country?
Republicans would rather have Clinton as President than Obama .. they fear if Obama becomes nominee and by chance he wins in Nov, this country will be radically changed.
I also find it amuzing when I see republicans for Obama… how can someone move so much to the left. May be they were not really republicans.
“Radically” is exactly the right word.
A north carolina newspaper endorsed him and somebody on TV said this morning that the reason they endorsed him is Karl Marx isn’t available for an endorsement.
Ouch.
I wish we start a new party (Name it “Moderates”)
Populists.
How about the “Constitutionalist Party”…first we have to dig it out of the shredder.
It would allow for the majority of people, both Republicans and Democratics in the center, to press the extreme edges back instead of getting split down the middle like a watermelon.
The two parties were always moderates, with a lean left or right. The problem is the hijackers who couldn’t make it with their own fringe parties. These are the radicals bringing us Barack Obama, who are just the other side of the nasty social conservative right-wing whackjobs.
“Moderates” or the “Non-Ideologically Challenged Party,” to be PC about it.
The point is, obviously, that Barack Hussein Obama is dragging us all down with him. He should do the honorable and manly thing and step out of the race. Problem is, he is not honorable or manly. He’s a whiny-ass baby and he’s about to blow (from down thread):
Michelle Obama: Barack Has Hit Boiling Point
By Tim Shipman in Raleigh, North Carolina
Last Updated: 1:11PM BST 04/05/2008
Barack Obama is struggling to contain his anger and frustration over the constant barrage of questions about his character and judgment, his wife has revealed.
AP
Michelle Obama told her audience that her husband was ’sick of the battle against Clinton’
Michelle Obama lifted the lid on the irritation felt by the leading Democrat candidate for the White House at the way anti-American outbursts by his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, have dogged his campaign.
He is said to be itching to turn all his fire on John McCain, the Republican candidate, who is benefiting most from Mr Obama’s protracted tussle with Hillary Clinton.
Mrs Obama told a rally in Durham, North Carolina, on Friday that only her husband’s desire to change US politics had helped him to control his feelings: “Barack is always thinking three steps ahead – what do we need to do to make change.”
Her husband was thinking “I can’t let my ego, my anger, my frustration get in the way of the ultimate goal,” she said.
“Barack has been characterised as many things that have nothing to do with who he is.”
New polls show the [Reverend Wright] affair may have derailed Mr Obama’s chances of sealing a double win in Tuesday’s North Carolina and Indiana primary elections, which might have ended Mrs Clinton’s hopes.
Instead, in just a week, Mrs Clinton has reversed a narrow Obama lead in Indiana and is closing fast in North Carolina, where Mr Obama had hoped for a convincing win.
A poll on Saturday found 58 per cent of voters believe his de-nunciation of the Rev Wright was merely an act of political expediency.
The Rasmussen survey found 56 per cent of voters thought it likely that Obama shares some of his pastor’s anti-American views.
A senior Democrat strategist privy to Obama’s campaign said: “He’s sick of the battle against Clinton. He wants to get stuck into McCain. His people have had to remind him that this thing isn’t over yet and he needs to focus and put her away.”
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” Why can’t these people just accept my 48 state steal the election strategy…”
Barry to Meeeeeeechelle.
Whyyyyyy do all the votes have to count, whyyyyy? My best buddies, the Republicans say they don’t, and they’re always riiiiiight!!
You know what? I’m sure Hillary was SICK OF ALL THE SHIT THEY THREW AT HER FOR A DECADE AND A HALF, TOO YOU FUCKING WIMP! MAN THE FUCK UP, BARRY.
Sorry. *clears throat*
MAN THE FUCK UP? I likey. Do you mind if I spread this one around? You’ll get the cred of course.
Feel free. I’m less good at this shit than James Carville, but I’m just as good at standing behind it when I say it.
I like your style. Obama’s oratory doesn’t even come close to yours!
You said it Janis….
Yeah, I was just thinking he should “man up” the other day, but I like MTFU much better! Would make a nice bumper sticker, doncha think?
“HEY, BO! MTFU!”
Let’s put it on a placard, on a bumper sticker, everywhere! HOPE you MTFU, Barry, and CHANGE your whiney-ass tune!
Hey, Bar?
Reach the f*ck down and find a pair, m’kay precious?
VERY good RANT!!
I guess Obama figres if he wina a state in the GE, he has the right to be President!
No one gets to discuss solely McCain till truly voted into the nominee position and that happens in late August!
4 months is a lot of time for Rev Wright, Tony Rezko, Auchi, Alsammarea, Ayers and Dohrn to create waves of some kind! will be a long road to Denver and won’t it be fun fun fun!
Talked to two firm Democrat friends today and simply asked if Obama is the nominee, you going to vote and they first said unfortunately for party loyalty! So asked them, if this was over Feb 4th, I’d agree to a large degree, but in light of everything now appearing, can you vote for someone like Obama, who lied to the cameras on many ovccassions, revealed finally the true associations with Wright et al thus far and they said that isn’t easy to say, but in reality they cannot vote for him!
So asked them, you going to sit idle and do nothing, and without a word they said no, they cannot allow such a person enter the White House in good conscience, they have to vote McCain because doing nothing is an act of allowing just the same!
This rolling effect will be the norm in the fall for many people, history or not, a dirty politician doesn’t have just white skin or black skin or yellow skin or male or female, a dirty politician is simply a dirty politician!
But why isn’t the media talking about all of Obama’s other associations? Did you all see the picture of Ayers stomping on the American flag, I think in 2001, when he and Obama were work mates??? That needs to get out there!!!
What a seriously tasteless woman she is. Here we are listening to Hillary speak in Indiana and the intro was to applaud for Barack Obama and all he is doing, the talk if of unity. And here, we have trash mouthed Michelle Obama who just can’t resist being the nasty person that she is. She will never sit her nasty ass in the white house.
He’ll get sick of the battle with McCain too then. After all, he’s only been battling Hillary for 5 months. He’ll have to battle McCain for a while longer. This just reinforces my belief that Obama is not disciplined enough to run for President. He’s too immature and whiny.
“put her away”.
Well Obama needs to be “put away”.
Hopefully he will be “put away” in JAIL, because Obama is part of the corrupt Chicago political system.
After what Obama has put us through — I’m ready for some good old “putting” myself.
And I’d like to see Mrs. Obama taken off her high horse and OUT of that mansion they can’t afford.
Best case scenario is Rezko and Auchi (as well as Obama, I would venture) violated the Patriot Act, and the government seizes it.
Too too funny…
Her husband was thinking “I can’t let my ego, my anger, my frustration get in the way of the ultimate goal,” she said.
In this, he has failed in all respects.
Sounds like Barack is bitter, and he clings to his anger against Hillary. Maybe that’s his white half speaking out.
Projection, thy name is Obama.
Someone needs to wake obama from his wet dream and enlighten him to the REAL world… !
LA-06: New Poll Shows Cazayoux Leading Jenkins By 9 Points
by: James L.
Thu May 01, 2008 at 12:47 AM EDT
From a new SurveyUSA poll obtained by Roll Call (likely special election voters, 4/27-29):
Don Cazayoux (D): 50
Woody Jenkins (R): 41
(MoE: ±4.5%)
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Jenkins made up 6 points in just a few days and the final margin was only 3 points as opposed to the 9 point lead the Dem had. I’d have to think that Obama was a drag on the Dem, or else the polls were wrong (not unusual).
Well, there’s the writing on the proverbial wall
Does he actually think it’s going to be easier when he’s up against McCain ?
Sure. He beats the bitch, then they just hand him the keys to the White House, right?
I do believe Barack Obama thinks he shouldn’t have had to work for this. He thinks the President of the United States is an affirmative action position and we should have all just spawned and handed the nomination to his superior self. Typical narcissist. He doesn’t like fighting for anything, he just assumed its his. Not a sign of any kind of leader whatsoever. It’s almost fun just thinking of him running against the swift boats. He already looks like ten miles of bad road from just working for a nomination.
Actually, I think, he thinks once he wins the nomination, everything will be sunshine, rainbows and happy, fluffy unicorns. And he and Mccain will hold hands and the Shia and Sunni will kiss and make up, and Putin will look into his eyes and see his soul.
Such a wonderful day to look forward to!
Just keep toking the hopium, obama supporters. The rest of us are busy trying to get a designated driver to run the country.
And all them goddamned cuntass bitchez who got in his way will get theirs, fucking whores …
Oops, that one musta slipped out! O:-)
Their Golden Ages are never ours. Women, if we don’t take special pains to remember that, will never fail to be reminded.
Yeah they are going to sing Kumbaya while they push him off the cliff.
And his radical followers will help him lose too. Wait till the Recreate68 crap starts up at the convention and turns off another couple of million voters just like 1968. This is a year these people want to mimic? Demonstrations, fighting, nasty assed radicals? Go for it suckers! Just remember 68 gave us Nixon, you fools. Have fun! Oh and ‘72 gave us Nixon AGAIN thanks to the radicals surrounding McGovern. I want the pop corn concession!
McCain will quit when he’s up against Angle Obambi and clear the path to the White House because it’s in Obambi genre to unit the great people of USKKKA.
Just go to McCain’s Senate site and check his press releases from Feb 6.2006 a real interesting letter on what McCain thinks of Obama.
A two faced liar that McCain has absolutley no respect for!
Poor White
I agree 100% .The Republicans do not want an “ACCIDENTAL” election . They do not want to wake up in November to find barry in the white house (even worse Michelle). They will take their chances with Hillary . They ” get” Hillary . Nobody “gets” barry except his worshippers and nobody wants him but them…..
Louis “Woody” Jenkins is a loser in Baton Rouge politics, he has lost big in every attempted run at office before, usually by a 20%+ loss margin due to his business records!
His coming this close is a completely unlikely event, and it was a Democratic easy win for anyone against him, until Obama’s name was mentioned!
Well it’s clear that he has been handed the nomination (god I hope I’m wrong) so I guess he will believe that he deserves the keys..no questions asked.
It’s been said that he got bored in the Senate so he decided to give this a try. Now he’s bored with Hillary (who makes him look like a first grader),
and he wants to move on to McCain.
How in the world does ANYONE not see that this man is just NOT qualified ???
Is it possible the Obambi has Attention Deficiency Problems?
He always seems to be bored or unable to do the work.
Doesn’t have sense enough to hang around with people who really like America.
I think GOP should not get Pelosi in this … If GOP had just had Obama the ad would have been more effective .. in fact have his pastor and ayers in the ad.
Sorry, but I am also afraid both Obama, Pelosi, the speaker from San Francisco, and to a lessor extent Reid will be a huge drain on down ticket Democrats.
Remember folks had there have been hopes for impressive gains in the House and Senate this election.
Yet if Obama gets the nomination I feel you will see the Democratic party get whipped like a rented mule. Just wait until the William Ayers/Bernadine Dohrn insanity becomes common knowledge.
Then there is the fact that Obama is taking a far left position on illegal immigration. Obama is even bashing Lou Dobbs by name. Now that takes real genius. Democrats are really lucky that Dobbs has been gracious to them so far. Dobbs has clearly stated that MSM failed in its duty to vet Obama and instead helped to stoke the mania. Callers to Dobbs’ radio show asking about the looming Bill Ayers fiasco have been told to wait and see how the impact of the Rev. Wright train wreck has impacted Obama’s campaign. Obama may be finished with out dragging down the entire Democratic party over the unrepentant ex-terrorists.
Likewise where both Pelosi and Reid are killing the Democrats is over Immigration. Pushing for the McCain/Kennedy Comprehensive Immigration Reform atrocity in spite of overwhelming opposition caused Congress’s approval ratings to tank. Even Obama backers like Ed Schultz are saying the same thing. Pelosi and Reid will not allow a hearing or vote on the SAVE Act. Yet they allowed unlimited testimony on behalf of proposed massive H1-B visa expansion, the Dream Act, Ag-Jobs with limited or no opposition testimony permitted. Bill Gates alone was allow to harangue Congress two years in a row for unlimited h1-b visas for hours at a time with no need to present empirical data as to economic need. No opposing testimony was allowed in both instances.
Sorry but Pelosi, Reid and Howard Dean have been a disaster. If they continue to back Obama and Hillary still gets the nomination , Hillary needs to back a move to remove all three from leadership.
Hillary herself has a lousy record on immigration, outsourcing and border security. Hopefully she can read the writing on the wall. In the public’s mind the only major politicians with a worse reputation on immigration than her are Obama, Pelosi, Kennedy and McCain.
If Hillary pushes for “CIR” in her first year as Pre