Great Moments In Political Messaging

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“Why would you hand the keys to the car back to the same guys whose policies drove the economy into the ditch and then walked away from the scene of the accident?“
Polls have opened. And go here for Steyn’s take.
Updates: In a watershed moment for post-2009 Democrats, the first mention of “blame” that excludes the word “Bush”. And speaking of monkey wrenches, the media wing of the Democratic machine has its own problems.
(I’m busy with stuff that makes blogging difficult today. Your best source for ongoing developments is likely to be the Corner.)

63 Replies to “Great Moments In Political Messaging”

  2. As Matalin said on the weekend talkshow….”if the Democrats slow walk the certification and fast track Health Care they will defintiely lose the House and probably the Senate.”
    Of course this may well happen anyway. Obama mused a couple of months ago that it wasnt assured that he would run again. Makes you wonder if he really wants to, or if he wants to just get one thing done. Or, per an ET argument, he really wants people to beg him to run.
    Brown wins, Obama has a Democrat revolt on his hands….that party is undisciplined at the best of times, they have a supermajority and they still cant get stuff done. They will fracture in the worst way with the hard left (Franken, Boxer, Kucinich yelling the loudest)
    What a meltdown.

  4. There’s no certainty of Brown’s win, much as most of us would like that outcome. Rasmussen, one of the, if not THE, most reliable polls, has him one point behind – essentially, a dead heat.
    There are TWO forces involved in decision-making. One is Habit, a force that exists in continuous time. It exists in past-future time; there is no difference between the two time phases..an entity lives on and on. The continuity of a rock. Or a tree that lives on for years.
    The other force is Now, a force that is unable to live in continuity; in past-future time. It only exists Now, a brief flash of life that can start up and die just as quickly.
    Will the force of Now, which is the anger and revolt against Democratic authoritarianism actually affect the force of Habit? Will people, even though angry Now, actually allow it to mo9ve into their mode of action operating in Habit?
    Mass. has been Democrat for 60 years. That’s a long and firm Habit.
    So, what counts is getting that vote out to the election booths.

  5. Coakley looks like the winner. If it’s close, the Brown camp had better scrutinize the scrutineers very closely.

  8. I’m not sure that Coakley is ‘terminally stupid’ but she is making a good run for it.
    Every time she opens her mouth she manages to say something monumentally stupid or offensive to some group of people. This last piece of nonsense by her campaign handler really tops it.
    This the political equivalent of hurling themselves into the Abyss with malice of forethought. Dead heat indeed…
    Maybe it is just the arrogance of the Dems thinking they can run a monkey on the ticket and people will blindly mark their X.
    She can’t even find her Coakley hand bag
    http://www.bizrate.com/handbags-totes/coakley/
    what makes voters think she can find and read a policy manual.
    This time it may well be different…
    Cheers
    Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  9. Just a question for the Coakley supporters out there.
    If Sarah Palin would have made the comment that the terrorists are gone from Afghanistan, what would have been the reaction?

  10. No need for rhetorical questions Ardvark.
    But what the hey, a rhetorical answer???? /shrug
    Anyway, the same response as if it had been a member of the GOP that made Harry Reid’s latest gem vice a DNC member.

  11. I think the heat is gone. If I were a voter and my guy won with a supermajority and all I got was higher taxes, blame and bad management, I wouldn’t be throwing in with them. Any Party.

  12. RE: margin of Acorn, or as Kate put it “margin of fraud”.
    If there is a bright side to the lightning fast turn of events, it’s that it will be difficult to get the fraud machine up and running in such a short window of time. The fraud machine had years to prepare for the 09 election and only days for this special election. Furthermore, numbers being what they are, it appears that the conservative base is quite motivated and the liberal base appears to be apathetic.
    So, the trick for the Democrats will be to motivate liberal voters (minorities, youth, elites and women) and get them to the polls. Typically, in my view, the youth and minority demographic is very difficult to motivate, especially on short notice, especially when the Democrat candidate is neither a minority(unless you count women as a minority), nor young, nor hip.
    As a healthy Canadian, at this time, if I could choose between the BIG OWE passing healthcare reform or Cap’n Trade I’ll pick the latter since it won’t effect me directly until I require medical services that have been rationed here.
    Here’s hoping for a Brown win, if not simply for the entertainment value.

  15. Saturday January 16-“Republican Scott Brown charged Saturday that a Democratic mailing against his U.S. Senate campaign violates a Massachusetts law prohibiting false statements against a political candidate.
    The cover of a four-page mailer sent by the Massachusetts Democratic Party says, “1,736 women were raped in Massachusetts in 2008. Scott Brown wants hospitals to turn them all away.”
    That was Brown’s shot across the bow to signal to the Democrat Party of Massachusetts that he isn’t going to take vote tampering at the polls lying down today.
    I know the Democrats are too arrogant and too thick to get the message.
    If Scott Brown loses there is going to be one heck of a show and a lot of blog fodder coming out of Massachusetts.
    Either way, history is going to be made today in a big way.

  19. Sure hope Brown wins.
    I know many people in Massachusetts, and Kennedy held the seat forever in part because voters figured there was no way to unseat him.
    Now that the people of Massachusetts finally have a chance to shake things up, the Democrats are having a fit wondering why they are not a shoe in.
    Remember this simple rule folks: liberals hate democracy.

  20. I have this theory about elections.
    We can survive a competently run liberal or conservative government. What’s disastrous is an incompetently run government no matter where it is on the political spectrum.
    Thus it’s often not where you stand on the issues that many voters (particularly swing voters) are concerned with, it’s how well you run your campaign. Many voters likely figure that if you’re not competent to run a campaign, you’re not competent to run a government.

  21. “Why would you hand the keys to the car back to the same guys whose policies drove the economy into the ditch and then walked away from the scene of the accident?”
    Is Danny Glover helping out with the Coakley campaign?

  23. I swear I don’t understand the docility in latest crop of Americans. After being pillaged they’re satisfied to “send a message” to this Washington klepto-Marxist regime with a GOP by-election win (possibly a small margin win at that)
    I expected ropes, pitchforks, torches and the smell of boiling tar after the revelation that the Wall Street Banks BO robbed the treasury of 9 trillion $$$ to bail out, and who are still insolvent, are paying out 20 billion to their execs (who put them in bankruptcy) in year end bonuses and a total of 100 billion in saleries. WTF!!
    http://tinyurl.com/yf2omlp

  25. Fox is covering the election. CNN seems to have decided that either the seat is lost or that they dont want to be seen covering another Obama loss.

  26. While a Brown victory would be great, it’s far from certain.
    I understand that President Obama’s visit on Sunday either created or saved thousands of votes for Coakley.

  27. Bill, you would think that $120 billion buys something, would not you?
    This is one of the reasons America has been putting their male population behind bars at the highest rate on this planet, second only to Stalin – to bleed population of manpower capable of taking action.
    And you still think the West is morally superior to Soviet Union?

  28. The latest odds on intrade:
    http://www.intrade.com/
    BROWN: 79.9
    COAKLEY: 20.1
    Looks like the betting people are calling this Dem ‘car wreck’ the way it is…
    cal2: CNN is just conceding defeat in the face of overwhelming stupidity…
    MSNBC went apoplectic with Chris Matthews yesterday.
    Cheers
    Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  29. Apparently Obama is today meeting George Voinovich, a GOP who is retiring this year and has been a turncoat on various issues.
    Michelle Malkin wonders if Obama’s meeting with him is to enlist him as the needed 60th vote for the Democrat Health Bill (i.e., if Brown wins in Mass).
    The WH has clarified. No, Obama is meeting with Voinovich, not to beg his vote, but to talk about the national debt.
    Sure.
    Explain to me why Obama would meet ONE GOP member, a noted turncoat, and one who is retiring, to talk about the national debt. That’s a topic for ALL members of Senate, for ALL members of the GOP and for ALL members of the Democratic Party.
    But Obama has chosen to meet, on the day of a vital election, and just before a vital Senate vote – with ONE, I repeat, ONE member of the GOP? And to talk about an amorphous topic, to which Obama is by the way, is utterly indifferent – the national debt?
    Sure.

  30. ET:
    The only question is how many millions will Voinovich be offered; given the past deals to secure the “Louisiana purchase”, the Nebraska “Ben Nelson” panhandler buyout, etc…
    The swirling stink of corruption reaches ever higher.
    Cheers
    Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  31. Hey sorta39,
    If you count only the top 4 polls it’s Brown 207 – 173.
    See how easy that was.
    ,

  32. Exactly ET.
    I said the other day that I estimate the GOP needs 45 seats to withstand the tirade of bribes.

  33. “within the margin of Acorn”
    If we all did not know how potentially true that statement could be, it would be quite humourous.

  35. I’d rather be in a truck with Scott Brown than a car with Ted Kennedy.
    It is pretty amazing how this “small oversight” in Kennedy’s behaviour, history and character has been glossed-over in the main stream media.
    It’s almost as if there was an MSM conspiracy TO NEVER TALK ABOUT IT AGAIN. But hinting at a conspiracy would be *crazy talk* relegated to the status of truthers and people that think the Moon landing was a hoax.
    Quite amusing isn’t it.

  37. “…that party is undisciplined at the best of times, they have a supermajority and they still cant get stuff done.”
    They don’t WANT to get “stuff done”. The democrats have become the slightly-not fringe party mostly dedicated to get itself re-elected, voters be damned.

  42. TeeHee….
    “Days before the vote, White House advisers and other Democrats in Washington began making excuses for they called a poorly run campaign on Coakley’s part. Obama flew to Boston for last-minute personal campaigning on Sunday.
    Wall Street watched closely. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 116 points, and analysts attributed the increase to hopes the election would make it harder for Obama to make his changes to health care. That eased investor concerns that profits at companies such as insurers and drug makers would suffer.”

  43. The Boston Globes page is down:(
    Does that mean that Coakley hasn’t won?
    “That’s why they play the game.”-Chris Berman

  44. And here is the ‘explanation’ Indiana Homez – incredible!! And the dog ate ‘Marcia’s’ teleprompter.
    Update!
    According to an update at the Boston Phoenix, Bob Powers, the vice president of communications for the Boston Globe, blamed the goof on the Associated Press:
    AP was testing an election data feed to its Massachusetts clients. During corresponding tests at our end, the feed of AP’s hypothetical test data was inadvertently posted for a few minutes on a single subsection page within ur site. As soon as the error was discovered, it was removed. We regret the mishap.
    Sure.

  45. Who said dead men can’t vote?
    Fox News covers how 116,000 voters in the Massachusetts Senate vote are um, dead.

  46. And here is the ‘explanation’ Indiana Homez – incredible!! And the dog ate ‘Marcia’s’ teleprompter.
    Update!
    According to an update at the Boston Phoenix, Bob Powers, the vice president of communications for the Boston Globe, blamed the goof on the Associated Press:
    AP was testing an election data feed to its Massachusetts clients. During corresponding tests at our end, the feed of AP’s hypothetical test data was inadvertently posted for a few minutes on a single subsection page within ur site. As soon as the error was discovered, it was removed. We regret the mishap.
    Sure.

  48. Well, I’m going to pick-up a raincoat for all of the grey-matter debris that will be flying around from liberal heads exploding.
    Check that, I suppose you need a brain to have grey-matter debris when your head explodes. False alarm.

  49. Indiana Homez
    There would still be skull fragments and tattered pieces of balding scalp to dodge tho…so maybe it’d still be a good idea.

  50. “It all comes back to Luntz now as he works to find bodies willing to represent Martha Coakley. “This is definition of collapse,” he says.”
    Yeah Tim, too bad he needs *warm* bodies, I’m sure there are a bundle of cold bodies voting Dem today.

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