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Strange Political Strategy

by: Dean Barker

Wed Aug 04, 2010 at 07:53:51 AM EDT
The right-wing and their media enablers still doing their darndest to derail the Republican candidate with the best general election chances against Paul Hodes.

Maybe if they close their eyes and ears and shout LALALA long enough, they can pretend the electorate in the Granite State is as far right-wing as they are?

Strange political strategy.

Adding: Don't get me wrong - I'm most grateful that the NH right is insistent on putting up a gen elex candidate who opposes 2/3rds of the state on a fundamental social issue.  Many thanks!
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Here's the ad (0.00 / 0)

Interestingly enough, the You Tube says Cornerstone Action and NOM, so we know who else is behind it. With NOM's deep pockets and obsession against marriage equality, can we expect more out of state intervention and money masquerading as "grass roots"?

h/t Pindell .

shockingly liberal! (0.00 / 0)
LOL: Binnie supports marriage equality and he is open to considering new taxes.  That doesn't make him "shockingly" liberal; that doesn't even make him a liberal.

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Getting attacked by NOM is a badge of honor. (0.00 / 0)
...in my party, anyway.

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"Don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past; you must fight just to keep them alive!"

@DougLindner

Must read by David Corn (4.00 / 1)
in Mother Jones.

Corn describes what happened to GOP Rep Bob Inglis of SC.  With a lifetime approval rating of 93% from the American Conservative Union, Inglis was defeated in the GOP primary recently by a Tea Party candidate by a 3:1 margin.

Here's a snippet, but read the whole thing:


While he was campaigning, Inglis says, tea party activists and conservative voters kept pushing him to describe Obama as a "socialist." But, he says, "It's a dangerous strategy to build conservatism on information and policies that are not credible...This guy is no socialist." He continues:

The word is designed to have emotional charge to it. Throughout my primary, there were people insisting that I use the word. They would ask me if he was a socialist, and I would always find some other word. I'd say, "President Obama wants a very large government that I don't think will work and that spends too much and it's inefficient and it compromises freedom and it's not the way we want to go." They would listen for the word, wait to see if I used the s-word, and when I didn't, you could see the disappointment.

The tail is wagging the dog, for sure.


"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world." A. Einstein

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