Americablog: How Bad Are Things For The Republicans? (Nebraska)

[Hissyspit]

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/11/how-bad-are-things-for-republicans.html

Friday, November 03, 2006

How bad are things for the Republicans?
by John in DC - 11/03/2006 12:08:00 AM

Lincoln (Nebraska) Journal Star:

President Bush will come to Nebraska on Sunday to try to help Republicans save an endangered House seat they’ve held for 48 years....

The presidential visit was arranged in the wake of polling last week showing Scott Kleeb moving within reach of the first Democratic congressional victory in western and central Nebraska since 1958.

Lil 'ole Scott Kleeb has the White House in panic mode. If that doesn't show the kind of influence this guy will have in Washington, I don't know what does.

http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2006/11/02/local/doc4548b669d4393485591968.txt

Bush coming to Nebraska to campaign for Smith
BY DON WALTON / Lincoln Journal Star

President Bush will come to Nebraska on Sunday to try to help Republicans save an endangered House seat they’ve held for 48 years.

Bush will make a campaign stop for 3rd District GOP nominee Adrian Smith in either Kearney or Grand Island.

The presidential visit was arranged in the wake of polling last week showing Scott Kleeb moving within reach of the first Democratic congressional victory in western and central Nebraska since 1958.

Bush’s trip dramatizes the GOP’s end-game effort to hang onto control of the House and provides remarkable evidence a seat once considered safely Republican is a battleground contest now.

Smith said he’s “deeply grateful” for the president’s assistance and believes it will help him -- “absolutely,” he exclaimed -- in a district that’s overwhelmingly Republican and still, in his view, strongly supportive of Bush.

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1. just this evening I saw a flock of pigs flying over my house in Lincoln.

I still can't believe it is happening out there, strangest thing I've ever seen.

Kleeb is taking some serious and continuous fire on TV right now from RNC and Club For Growth. We'll see if he can weather the storm.

For what its worth he's run an outstanding campaign.

[Kierkegaard]

2. So, they are going to try and pull this one out of the fire

by sending a boat anchor to a sinking ship? BRILLIANT!

[silverojo]

3. I love THAT kind of news from my home state!

When those Repukes start leaning toward a Dem, you know the Greedy Old Pedophiles are in trouble! :evilgrin:

[grytpype]

4. Notice how they have to use Bush in a defensive manner only.

You don't see him going to battleground districts, just the ultra-red ones. And it's to prevent them from turning blue! Totally on defense.