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Concord Monitor to Tea Party Bass:'Pack a Lunch"

by: JonnyBBad

Thu Feb 25, 2010 at 08:30:32 AM EST
(ROFL - promoted by Dean Barker)

Today's Concord Monitor takes Charlie to task for acting like a real Republican, who they say will "run to the right" in the primary and "move to the middle" for the general election.


http://www.concordmonitor.com/...
"But Charlie Bass, our Charlie Bass, a tea-partier? You gotta be kidding."

The Bassmaster's naked cynicism and lack of respect for voters intelligence is incredible, no less so the fact that he thinks anybody will buy it.

It can't be easy for Bass to move to the right of his primary opponents, radio talk show host Jennifer Horn and former state representative Bob Guida. Both have talked a more conservative game. But that appears to be his plan. If he succeeds, it will take such a long way back to the middle that he'd better pack a lunch.

Enjoy your crow sandwich pal.
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Concord Monitor to Tea Party Bass:'Pack a Lunch" | 12 comments
rotflmao n/t (4.00 / 1)


for transparency sake ~I represent Union print shops
Will Bass be the new Scott Brown if he wins the primary? (4.00 / 1)
He will campaign to the right during the primary, then present himself as NH's Scott Brown - complete with a pick-up truck.

Charlie has always been a chameleon. He's all over the place - pro-choice and a Gingrich foot-soldier.

But as The Who sing, "We won't be fooled again."

Charlie can't hide from his voting record, which will work against him in both the primary and the general election.  

Last I knew (0.00 / 0)
Charlie had a full-size Suburban. Well - it's almost a pickup truck, no?

Republicans believe government is bad - then they get into office and prove it.
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Charlie collects antique automobiles (Model Ts, etc.) (4.00 / 1)
. . . a hobby for every working man (with a very large trust fund)  
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Have seen them, too. (0.00 / 0)
Good that he has something to help with the ennui.

Republicans believe government is bad - then they get into office and prove it.
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Charlie Bass: He's been one of us (4.00 / 1)

"I love them. God bless every single one of them. Their agenda is exactly the same as mine."

FINALLY. A candidate every American can call their own.

He's been a handicapped unionist minority farmer.

He's been a right-wing, pro-choice, born-again Southern elderly protectionist pacifist.

He's been a redneck Northern liberal ethnic pro-life Jewish fixed-income no-nukes gun nut.

And he's been a woman glassy-eyed tea party loon named Frieda.

BILL THE CAT FOR PRESIDENT CHARLIE BASS FOR CONGRESS

He's been one of us. ~ Berke Breathed, Bloom County (ca. 1984)

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Bass: "I'd stand by them (4.00 / 1)
any day of the week."

Here's a sign (more at the link) from a NH Tea Party rally:



 

birch, finch, beech
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For the Record (0.00 / 0)
Charlie is a hell of a lot closer to the "Tea Party" than "Progressive Republican".  Aside from being nominally pro-choice (but anti-federal funding, and pro-Bush "compromise" on stem cells), he's Judd Gregg.

Actually, let me take that back.  Judd has voted for miniminum wage increases, and supported the assault weapons ban.  Charlie supports abolition of both.

Park the Model T? (4.00 / 1)
DD When you say Charlie supports the abolition of minimum wage increases, and the abolition of the assault weapons ban... can you provide links ? Are you stating his position from past votes? If Charlie the Cameleon believes in anything, its that the dipsy doodle in his career must end, and he'll do and say anything to be re-elected to his 'old seat'. It's kind of an important point. By your logic he was really a Tea Party type all along, and NH Political Progressive Republican Charlie was all a shill.

So you are saying the climate is such that he can let his inner Bugatti out of the garage? If this is his true calling, maybe he'll be even better than as a shill. Scary business politics. He was able to stay in Federal office with his drivel for 6 years. Our job is to make sure that doesn't happen ever again.

for transparency sake ~I represent Union print shops

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His Votes (4.00 / 1)
DD When you say Charlie supports the abolition of minimum wage increases, and the abolition of the assault weapons ban... can you provide links ? Are you stating his position from past votes?

I am basing this assertion on his past votes and statements.  Am not in a position to access this research now, but will do so later.

And, to be clear, I am not saying that Charlie supports the abolition of minimum wage increases.  I am saying that he supports the abolition of the minimum wage.  Period.

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I knew you were at work (0.00 / 0)
I just wondered if he had any position papers for this run, other than his platitudes and his record.

for transparency sake ~I represent Union print shops
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Here are a couple of links... (4.00 / 1)
On his minimum wage votes from a piece put out by Swing the Vote.

And here is a link about how he voted FOR an increase in the minimum wage... but only when it was tied to a decrease in the estate tax. So as I read this he was essentially against increasing the minimum wage until it became a way to cut the estate tax.

As for assault weapons, here is some info about his views oin gun ownership in general.

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Concord Monitor to Tea Party Bass:'Pack a Lunch" | 12 comments

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