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Here’s another clue for you all

by DougJ|  May 9, 20111:57 pm| 50 Comments

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Galtian overlord Jack Davis deserves some credit too, I suppose, but mostly this is on Paul Ryan.

Hotline this morning:

It’s clear now that the Medicare issue will be the defining issue in the race, and so far Corwin has tried to turn the message back to jobs and the deficit. This is an early test for how the Democratic message will play, but the DCCC still isn’t in; though with Corwin forced to go on the attack, it could be better if they wait it out and force her hand. On the flip side, the NRCC has already begun phone-banking for Corwin, but especially if they’re forced to send resources and go up on air for her, it’s an even surer sign that they’re worried about how a loss could play into their 2012 plans

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  1. 1.

    Napoleon

    May 9, 2011 at 2:01 pm

    . . . the walrus was Paul.

    Time to donate to Hochul.

  2. 2.

    MikeJ

    May 9, 2011 at 2:03 pm

    They have their very own mini-Nader.

    A scalp for the teabaggers will make the showdown between the base and the money guys interesting.

  3. 3.

    mistermix

    May 9, 2011 at 2:04 pm

    Jack started it, but it took Ryan to get the ball into the end zone. I hope the NRCC has to pour a couple million into this should-be-safe seat.

  4. 4.

    Hal

    May 9, 2011 at 2:09 pm

    Jack Davis’s commercials say Corwin supports replacing Medicare with vouchers, and says Hochul wants to dun, dun, dun; raise taxes!

    One is far worse than another…Thanks Jack.

  5. 5.

    fasteddie9318

    May 9, 2011 at 2:11 pm

    Well, that tears it. It’s clear to me now that, so long as the Peasant insists on not dropping dead as soon as its productive work life is at an end, we will not be able to make the changes necessary to produce a truly utopian society. Therefore I am immediately withdrawing my productive services from this economy and setting sail for the middle of the Pacific Ocean where I can live out my days free from the tyranny of moochers and grifters. I apologize to the good people at Frito-Lay, who will undoubtedly feel the pain of this decision in their Cheetos division, but it simply cannot be helped.

  6. 6.

    jrg

    May 9, 2011 at 2:14 pm

    @Hal:

    Jack Davis’s commercials say Corwin supports replacing Medicare with vouchers, and says Hochul wants to dun, dun, dun; raise taxes!

    Finally an honest fucking discussion. One more medicare-entitled tea-party geriatric howling about “taxes” or “NPR” is going to send me screaming into the night.

  7. 7.

    Sharl

    May 9, 2011 at 2:17 pm

    Entertaining Jane Corwin parody sites – blog and twitter.

  8. 8.

    Mike Kay ( Geronimo!!)

    May 9, 2011 at 2:18 pm

    but, but, but… but Ryan’s plan is soooooooooo serious!!

    how can an overwhelming white GOP district reject Ryan’s seriousness!?!

    They’re gonna make Jesus Broder weep.

  9. 9.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    May 9, 2011 at 2:21 pm

    OT, but Newt is running.

    Hell to the fucking YES, bay-bee! The shit be ON!

  10. 10.

    cleek

    May 9, 2011 at 2:24 pm

    @Evolved Deep Southerner:
    sweeeet.

    i love this line from the article:

    It’s a crop of candidates that has many in the Republican Party yearning for more options as they seek the strongest candidate to take on President Barack Obama in 2012.

    yearn, baby, yearn.

  11. 11.

    stuckinred

    May 9, 2011 at 2:25 pm

    @Evolved Deep Southerner: That fat little fuck!

  12. 12.

    fhtagn

    May 9, 2011 at 2:25 pm

    Well, it’s a start, but I’d like more than a PPP poll before I become a believer. That said, heckuva a job, Paulie.

  13. 13.

    Elliecat

    May 9, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    @Sharl: The fake Corwin site is one of the funniest damn things I have seen in a long time. Just perfect.

  14. 14.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    May 9, 2011 at 2:32 pm

    @stuckinred: Do you even think his sorry doughboy ass will even carry Georgia? Never a prophet in your own land, I guess. And most people ain’t prophets anywhere.

    Here’s a question I hope he gets asked somewhere along the way. He’s said that this great stress or whatever caused him to go astray maritally. Should we take that to mean that if he’d have been in his right mind, he’d have never gotten mixed up with this gal he’s married to now? Wonder how she feels about that. I think I know about how Mrs. Deep Southerner would react if I took to the airwaves claiming, essentially, that Satan himself led me astray, and that was the only reason I really married her.

  15. 15.

    Sharl

    May 9, 2011 at 2:34 pm

    @Elliecat:
    It is damn funny. The Pat Boone post is new, and it also looks like the proprietor(s)* might have actually been connecting the (formerly dead) links to active pages. It helps that Ms. Corwin is giving them lots of material to work with.

    *From what I’ve read, a Green Party guy up in that area is the brains behind it.

  16. 16.

    Joel

    May 9, 2011 at 2:35 pm

    @cleek: I hope they nominate this guy. Independent businessman. Indisputably patriotic. Hip with the kids.

  17. 17.

    David Broder

    May 9, 2011 at 2:35 pm

    If the Democrats were a serious party they would meet Paul Ryan half way and end Medicare for people who don’t vote Republican.

  18. 18.

    stuckinred

    May 9, 2011 at 2:36 pm

    @Evolved Deep Southerner: I want to ask him why Vietnam was “the wrong war, in the wrong place at the wrong time”? Chickenshit motherfucker.

  19. 19.

    Basilisc

    May 9, 2011 at 2:36 pm

    Prediction: If Corwin falls further behind, we’ll start hearing allegations of widespread voter fraud. And the need for countermeasures, ie teabag “pollwatchers” at polling stations in poorer areas.

  20. 20.

    burnspbesq

    May 9, 2011 at 2:37 pm

    The Democratic message should be fairly simple.

    If Republicans get their way, America will continue to be the only developed country where tens is millions of people with treatable illnesses have to choose between bankruptcy and death.

  21. 21.

    MikeJ

    May 9, 2011 at 2:37 pm

    @Sharl: It’s the guy that posed as a Koch and called the gov in Wisconsin.

  22. 22.

    Josie

    May 9, 2011 at 2:37 pm

    @Evolved Deep Southerner: My next question would be “And how do you propose to handle the even more stressful office of the presidency?”

  23. 23.

    mr. whipple

    May 9, 2011 at 2:39 pm

    @Sharl: Awesome!

  24. 24.

    trollhattan

    May 9, 2011 at 2:42 pm

    O/T but holy shit, did y’all see what Florida just did? They’ve made it illegal for pediatricians to advise parents to lock up their guns.

    http://www.rumproast.com/index.php/site/comments/second_amendment_trumps_first_in_florida/

  25. 25.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    May 9, 2011 at 2:43 pm

    @stuckinred: You took him out of context. It was the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time for him. The left-wing liberal media always leaves that last piece out.

  26. 26.

    ppcli

    May 9, 2011 at 2:44 pm

    “turn the message back to jobs…”

    Turn the message *back* to jobs? They haven’t been talking about jobs since November 2010! “Jobs, jobs, jobs” until the election, and then beginning five seconds after the results were certified, we got nothing but Planned Parenthood and NPR defunding, union-busting, rape-redefining, health-care repealing (though they did say they were repealing a “job killer”. Snicker.)

    Let’s hope they do raise jobs as an issue – so we can ask the Repubs why they suddenly forgot all about them?

  27. 27.

    stuckinred

    May 9, 2011 at 2:45 pm

    @Evolved Deep Southerner: Mea culpa, I did leave that out!

  28. 28.

    ppcli

    May 9, 2011 at 2:47 pm

    @ppcli: @trollhattan:

    And of course allowing pediatricians to give common-sense advice is a job-killer.

    More of that “limited government” I keep hearing about.

  29. 29.

    Ken

    May 9, 2011 at 2:49 pm

    Corwin has tried to turn the message back to jobs and the deficit.

    On the strength of the Republican record in those areas? Still, I suppose “We aren’t doing anything” is a better message than “We are trying to shut down this popular program”.

  30. 30.

    mr. whipple

    May 9, 2011 at 2:51 pm

    This is a gooper district, right?

    So I suppose the next move by Kos will be to put up an Act Blue link and then if Hochul gets elected he’ll spend the next two years crying Hochul isn’t as liberal as him and his readers and getting all pissy about it and telling people to stay home in 2012 because their feefees have been betrayed.

  31. 31.

    Ash Can

    May 9, 2011 at 2:57 pm

    @trollhattan: If I’m a term life insurer in Florida, I’m either hiking my rates on the spot or getting out of Dodge.

  32. 32.

    Roger Moore

    May 9, 2011 at 3:00 pm

    @Evolved Deep Southerner:

    He’s said that this great stress or whatever caused him to go astray maritally.

    Good for him, then, that being President would never cause stress, and if it did, he wouldn’t be making any important decisions anyway. Right?

  33. 33.

    Ken

    May 9, 2011 at 3:03 pm

    @mr. whipple: Perhaps, but I’m betting that Hochul won’t go “Craigslist” like her predecessor. Of course, for a Republican, Lee was a bit out of the norm, being a heterosexual scandal

  34. 34.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    May 9, 2011 at 3:11 pm

    @stuckinred: Hey, and this one time, Little Newty called Hillary Clinton a BITCH! Can you believe that? His own mommy told Connie Chung so. But it was supposed to be off the record.

  35. 35.

    Judas Escargot

    May 9, 2011 at 3:14 pm

    @trollhattan:

    They’ve made it illegal for pediatricians to advise parents to lock up their guns.

    How. The fuck. Is that. Constitutional?

    I wish I were an independently wealthy Doctor in FL (preferably one who was married to an attorney). I’d be having the “GUN SAFETY FOR PARENTS” brochures printed up today, and start handing them out tomorrow…

    …mailing a few to the local NRA office just to make sure.

  36. 36.

    batgirl

    May 9, 2011 at 3:24 pm

    @Judas Escargot: I’m looking for more clarification, but I think a doctor could hand out a brochure to all new parents called “Gun Safety for Parents” as long as they didn’t ask the parents whether or not they owned a gun. Stupid, stupid law driven by paranoia and ideology. And could have serious consequences for doctors who deal with troubled kids/teenagers where having access to a gun is a helpful thing to know and talk to a family about.

    If anyone has more info about what this bill clearly does, please fill us in.

  37. 37.

    scav

    May 9, 2011 at 3:48 pm

    @Judas Escargot: Makes for an obvious catchy bumper sticker: You’ll pry my gun from the cold dead fingers of my children.

  38. 38.

    slag

    May 9, 2011 at 3:49 pm

    @Sharl:

    The 60-Plus association, which is non-partisan, unlike those commies at AARP, supports candidates who promote policies that matter to the elderly, like domestic offshore oil drilling, privatizing social security, ending the estate tax, and repeatedly misleading the public about Obamacare with millions of dollars in ads, paid for by undisclosed donors who probably aren’t the Koch brothers.

    So much goodness.

  39. 39.

    Cat Lady

    May 9, 2011 at 3:55 pm

    @Evolved Deep Southerner:

    Ask not what your country can do for you, ask who you can do for your country.

  40. 40.

    The Moar You Know

    May 9, 2011 at 3:59 pm

    So I suppose the next move by Kos will be to put up an Act Blue link and then if Hochul gets elected he’ll spend the next two years crying Hochul isn’t as liberal as him and his readers and getting all pissy about it and telling people to stay home in 2012 because their feefees have been betrayed.

    @mr. whipple: Markos is still around? And people still give a shit that he’s around? Huh, how ’bout that.

  41. 41.

    Bob

    May 9, 2011 at 4:16 pm

    @scav:

    Makes for an obvious catchy bumper sticker: You’ll pry my guns from the cold dead fingers of my children criminals.

    The NRA – fighting background checks, so criminals can exercise their right to arm themselves.

  42. 42.

    The Moar You Know

    May 9, 2011 at 4:25 pm

    O/T but holy shit, did y’all see what Florida just did? They’ve made it illegal for pediatricians to advise parents to lock up their guns.

    @trollhattan: So, Floridian parents that have loaded guns all over the house, and that somehow can’t figure out on their own that you should keep loaded guns locked up won’t be advised that this is not a good idea?

    Goddamn if I’m having a hard time seeing any downside to this one. Darwin in action. Fabulous legislation, Florida. I approve.

  43. 43.

    Ken

    May 9, 2011 at 4:27 pm

    @Judas Escargot: Well done, sir.

  44. 44.

    Ken

    May 9, 2011 at 4:28 pm

    @The Moar You Know: And this is the state that has just outlawed droopy pants ans bestiality.

  45. 45.

    The Moar You Know

    May 9, 2011 at 4:40 pm

    And this is the state that has just outlawed droopy pants ans bestiality.

    @Ken: Well, sounds like Floridians just got their two most popular leisure activities taken away by the cruel mechanism of the state. No matter. I’m just excited that a modern political party has finally seen, and decided to endorse the virtues of, population control.

  46. 46.

    Ron

    May 9, 2011 at 4:57 pm

    The ads Corwin is running against Jack Davis are just hilarious. Until I realized Davis was running as a teapartier it made no sense, but she is running ads linking Davis to Pelosi and Obama and “government run healthcare”. Not my district, but it’s a helluva show.

  47. 47.

    Ron

    May 9, 2011 at 5:02 pm

    @trollhattan: Sigh, I hate when stupid bills like the FL one get misrepresented as something even stupider. The bill prevents FL doctors from asking if patients have a gun. It doesn’t (from what I can tell) prevent general disussions of gun safety. That doesn’t mean this bill isn’t terrible, it is. But it’s bad for anyone to represent a bill as something it isn’t.

  48. 48.

    Ron

    May 9, 2011 at 5:06 pm

    @mr. whipple: Meh, Markos has NEVER told people to stay home. That isn’t to say other people there at the GOS don’t promote the idea that if candidates aren’t future leaders of the progressive caucus that nobody should bother to vote for them, but Markos has been pretty consistently suggesting voting for democrats. The only thing I’ve seen from him about candidates who he doesn’t feel are progressive enough is support for primary challenges like the one against Blanche Lincoln. Frankly, I thought she deserved the primary challenge. It’s one thing to not support every (or even most) progressive issues. It’s a whole other story to basically have your campaign brag about opposing your own party in Congress on several different issues.

  49. 49.

    OzoneR

    May 9, 2011 at 6:20 pm

    Three of the last four elections in this district, the Democrat got higher than what Hochul is polling. Two of those three were Jack Davis.

    Mostly this is Jack Davis, lets not get ahead of ourselves.

  50. 50.

    Ron

    May 9, 2011 at 9:41 pm

    @OzoneR: Yes, but if there are more 3-way races in “safe” republican districts because the tea party nominates some crazy person, they will continue to run into problems.

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