DSCC To GOP Senate Candidates: Campaign With Cheney! Please!
National Dems have been working overtime to stamp Dick Cheney’s face on the GOP. Now they want to stamp his face on the GOP’s Senate candidates, too.
Top officials with the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee have quietly told state Democratic Parties and Dem Senate candidates to press GOP candidates to take a stand on whether they want Dick Cheney to campaign for them. The hope is to force them to either embrace the historically unpopular Vice President or take the uncomfortable step of spurning him.
The occasion for this latest move: John Cornyn, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said today that Cheney could make a good surrogate for some GOP Senate candidates.
The state Dem parties are already following the DSCC’s directive. The Florida Dems blasted out a release moments ago demanding to know whether GOP Senate candidate Charlie Crist or his conservative primary opponent were willing “to appear publicly with Dick Cheney.” Ohio did something similar; look for other state parties to follow suit, in hopes that local media outlets put GOP candidates on the spot.
Senate Dem strategists think they can benefit from Cheney’s high-profile, because they can hang the Cheney albatross around the necks of GOP candidates without worrying about engaging his arguments, the way the White House has now had to do. Dem strategists also think they can benefit from Cheney’s last four favorability ratings: 37 percent, 18 percent, 19 percent and 30 percent.
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“I am more concerned with matters that impact my constituents here at home in [blank].”
“I would be honored – we’ll have to see how our schedules match up.”
And any number of other, easy excuses.
This is silly.
GLOATgloatGLOATgloatGLOATgloatGLOATgloatGLOATgloatGLOATgloat…
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Good Luck at turning the page on the Bush years GOP!!! What is so hysterical about this is that there are either GOP members that are truly happy about Cheney speaking out because the believe in the way he ran the Country, or there are GOP members who wish he would just shut his mouth and go back to his undisclosed location, but the funny thing is, the latter group isn’t willing to challenge him, it’s like watching beta fish puff up in frustration.
“but the funny thing is, the latter group isn’t willing to challenge him, it’s like watching beta fish puff up in frustration.:
Isn’t it loverly?
GLOATgloatGLOATgloatGLOATgloatGLOAT… (now do you get it, sbj?)
No.
Gotta love it. The DSCC should print up ads with each candidate’s picture right next to Dick Cheney’s. That anchor is going to be useful for a VERY long time.
sbj: Even if there are “scheduling conflicts” to relieve Publicans from being seen with the mendacious clown, surely some intrepid reporters may start asking “Do you agree with Dick Cheney on xyz?” and/or “Do you agree with Rush Limbaugh on xyz?”
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Here is the thing: your brand is less popular than rancid dog food. Your spokespeople and figureheads are less popular than rancid dog food. All you have left is “we’re not President Obama”, which is not such a great political strategy.
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And trotting out the stinkiest filthiest most rancid of dog food and putting it on the teevee every day just makes people sick and reminds them exactly why they hate your party in the first place.
“Here is the thing: your brand is less popular than rancid dog food. Your spokespeople and figureheads are less popular than rancid dog food. All you have left is “we’re not President Obama”, which is not such a great political strategy.”
And that gives me every reason to: GLOATgloatGLOATgloatGLOATgloatGLOATgloat…
Well, you needed a further explanation.
Tena: still don’t get it.
“Tena: still don’t get it.”
Because you’re being willfully obtuse.
I enjoy discussing the issues and Greg’s posts. Do you really think that I am going to engage with someone who thinks “GLOATgloatGLOATgloat” is some sort of reasoned discussion?