GOP uses Obama to boost its candidates

[MethuenProgressive]

http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_124015923.html

GOP uses Obama to boost its candidates

Republicans clearly hope Obama is a Democratic albatross. The Republican Party and one of its conservative allies have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on ads portraying Obama as a liberal and tying Cazayoux and Childers to the Illinois senator.

“When it comes to taxes both Travis Childers and Barack Obama think alike — they both want to raise them,” says an ad by Freedom’s Watch, an outside group financed by wealthy Republican contributors.

The National Republican Congressional Committee, the branch of the national party that assists GOP candidates, has linked Childers and Cazayoux to Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. In Louisiana, the party’s ad says Obama and Pelosi represent “a radical agenda, very different from Louisiana’s values.”

NRCC Chairman Tom Cole, a GOP congressman from Oklahoma, this week said Republicans would rather run with Obama at the top of the Democratic presidential ticket than Clinton. That represents a change in attitude for Republicans, many of whom had argued earlier that Clinton would likely energize Republicans against her and thus help down ticket Republicans.

It's interesting to note that Childers had to distance himself from Obama in order to win back the Mississippi’s 1st District, a traditionally Democratic seat.

[jefferson_dem]

1. Too bad they (and you) have failed in morphing Obama into Willie Horton.

Shame.

[K Gardner]

95. Yes.. worked well with Childers, LOL.. GOBAMA !

[Blondbostonian]

2. Your girl lost

She won't have a chance in 2012 either. She will never be President.

I don't care who you're voting for.

[dkf]

5. Andrea Mitchell says Hillary is no longer very popular in the Senate.

And therefore doesn't have much of a chance to be a power there, much less majority leader.

[Catchawave]

18. Andrea Mitchell says ?

:rofl:

[hokies4ever]

61. It's obvious that Hillary has bridges to rebuild in the Senate

[Catchawave]

68. Obvious?

Can you site an example ?

[hokies4ever]

75. 'with us or against us'

Even lightweight political pundits can figure out that the Senate didn't appreciate her gas tax holiday pandering. Not just because it's a bad idea, but how she fruitlessly tried to score points at the expense of other Senators on this idea. So Hillary goes back to the Senate and rushes to get a piece of legislation started for this gas tax holiday. Yeah, I'm sure there are NO LOOPHOLES when you hastily rush legislation. No consulting with other members of the Senate. No building a coalition of support for the idea (unless you're counting just McCain). No backing from economists to bolster her claim to other Senators. She just rushed to get it started for election purposes, plain and simple. Then the 'with us or against us' along with asking every member of Congress get on the record about the gas tax holiday? A political no-no, and Hillary should have known better. You can pander all you want, but you better leave other members of Congress out of it.

[cliffordu]

76. There ain't enough duct tape, string, paper clips and concerete

to rebuild the bridges SHE'S burned....

It's over. she either steals this or she's gone. Forever.

Maybe city council in Little Rock.

[rodeodance]

69. she is a gossip and you let her dupe you

[MadBadger]

3. WELCOME BACK

CELEBRATION TIME!

[dkf]

4. Yeah, I think that should be the GOPs main strategy this fall...

Its worked so well for them...

:rofl:

[ShortnFiery]

6. Wonder Woman? No way! More like *The Goddess of Egomania and Self-Righteousness.*

:puke:

[cali]

7. LOL! It's even more interesting to note that the repukes massively failed

in their attempt to win by tying Childers and Cazayoux to Obama and Wright. No matter that Childers and Cazayoux distanced themselves from Obama, the repukes ran ad after ad and it still didn't work. As for MS-1 being a traditional dem district- so what? For the last 16 years it's been repuke and it wasn't until this year that we won it back.

[merh]

8. He said he had not asked for Obama's endorsement

He did not demand that Obama remove his endorsement of Childers from the Obama website and it remained, was even used against Childers during the election. That little game didn't work, the folks didn't care.

Guess that bothers the shit out of you, how all those expensive adds didn't help make hillary's case for the super delegates.

[Enrique]

9. Obama isn't much of an albatross

he's popular and likable.

But it's all they've got.

[dionysus]

26. thank you

[NJmaverick]

10. They tried but it back fired, Obama's coat tails are LONG!!!

Mississippi now has another Dem thanks to the Obama inspired voter turn out! GO OBAMA!

[Renew Deal]

11. They did it and they lost.

I know you were rooting for the republicans on this one. Better luck next time.

[chascarrillo]

12. If by "boost" you mean "suicide", then sure.

Give it up. This is just pathetic.

[graycem]

13. Yeah.. and

that worked out so well for them in Louisiana and Mississippi last week and last night. I recommend a new game plan for them. Try running as Independents. Bush has made the word "Republican" a dirty word.

That seat as well as the Louisiana seat has been in Republican possession for YEARS. Traditional Democratic seat my ASS. Read a paper.

[tyne]

15. I guess

Wright isn't going to work for the right.

[graycem]

25. Bush is a bigger

threat than Wright ever could be. The Louisiana seat was a 32 year Republican stronghold, the MS, 16 years! Those idiots had the great idea to send Cheney of all people down there to campaign for Davis. They really do NOT get how much people in their own party think they suck. I am loving every little second of it. They keep trying to frame it as a Democratic meltdown because of our long primary in order to divert attention away from their sad reality. That's the only hope they have. Ah, how sweet karma is.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

14. One could say...

...that this strategy has failed quite miserably.

[KingFlorez]

16. It obviously isn't boosting them

Using Obama in ads hasn't worked, they've lost to southern seats consecutively.

[lisa58]

17. It didn't work in MS and it won't work in the general....

...McCain is too close to Bush and loyalty to Bush is what is destroying the GOP

[PaulaFarrell]

19. and yet everyone else is saying that this seat was a Republican 'safe seat'

and the Democratic victory was a huge upset

[nxylas]

20. Albatross!

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

28. What flavor is it?

.

[nxylas]

34. It doesn't have a flavor

It's a bleedin' seabird, innit, it's seabird flavor.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

45. Do I get wafers with it?

.

[nxylas]

46. Gonna stop now

Before we end up "performing" the entire sketch between us.

Edit: link to the script here.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

51. Oh Fine. Just leave me...

I'm so going to have serious abandonment issues over this!

[nxylas]

55. Oh all right

Course you don't get bloody wafers with it. It's a bloody bird.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

56. I'll have two please...

:)

[nxylas]

57. I've only got one

Umm, forgive me if I don't finish that sentence.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

66. I was ready to hit the Alert Button

Thanks for playing!

[TahitiNut]

70. I'll have two, please.

:hide:

[charlie]

21. Cazayoux took a seat Republicans held for 33 years

Not much of a boost. Or an albatross. Or whatever else Republicans think they're up to.

[AllentownJake]

22. After the GOP holds a seat for 13 years

It is no longer a traditional democratic seat.

[still_one]

23. sorry, Obama will be the next President, and to boot the Democrats will control Congress

you are just going to have to learn to deal with that

Clinton ran a terrible campaign. Obama's campaign was brillant. That alone is an indication who is more capable

Of course if Hillary really wanted the nomination she should have recognized that her vote on the IWR was a mistake, and following up with a vote on the Kyle/lieberman ammendment only re-enforced that she learned nothing from her IWR vote

[dionysus]

24. mega fail...

:rofl:

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[WeDidIt]

31. R+10 is "traditionally Democratic"?????

:wtf:

[MethuenProgressive]

32. You can look it up.

Or you can post Smilies.

1873-1877.....L. Q. C. Lamar..... Democratic
1877-1885.....Henry Muldrow...... Democratic
1885-1901.....John Allen......... Democratic
1901-1921.....Ezekiel Candler.... Democratic
1921-1953.....John Rankin........ Democratic
1953-1973.....Thomas Abernathy... Democratic
1973-1995.....Jamie Whitten...... Democratic
1995-2007.....Roger Wicker....... Republican
2008-.........Travis Childers.... Democratic

That right there is what you call traditionally Democratic.

[AllentownJake]

33. Anything before 1950

Doesn't really count. We were much a different party than and the entire south was "Democratic"

[MethuenProgressive]

35. Then, in the last 58 years it's been a traditionally Democratic seat.

46 years out of 58. 4 Democrats, one Republican.
Traditionally a Democratic seat since 1873. Or 1950, if you insist.

[AllentownJake]

38. We took back a seat from the GOP than

why the heck are you people so up in arms over it.

3 special elections 3 victories.

I swear I think you people would be happy if we lost that seat to prove your point.

[MethuenProgressive]

42. "you people"?

Explain that.

[AllentownJake]

48. I've seen more stupid

fighting over this by both sides of this silly primary war when its good news for both sides.

We can't even agree when the GOP loses a house seat right now. It's disgusting.

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[Occam Bandage]

59. That's misleading. It was a Democrat seat, but a conservative-coalition Dem seat. After 1994,

all conservative-coalition Dem seats became Republican seats.

[TahitiNut]

72. "Strom Thurmond Democrats" you mean.

:rofl:

[Thrill]

36. All they do is motivate the Black vote in those small districts

Big time mistake

[mystieus]

50. You won the thread.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/childers-victory-gives-dems-a-third-straight-takeover-2008-05-13.html

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

37. It worked great in Louisiana.

:thumbsup:

[indimuse]

39. Obama is simply UNELECTABLE in the GE!

He does NOT have the #'s NOW and WILL NEVER have them if the nom!!! It aint happening. Obama needs to drop out!

[AllentownJake]

40. I swear

the gall of you people that the guy who is winning by every metric.

You know what in 2012 no primaries at all. We'll just do an AOL poll and see who the better candidate is. Winner take all.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

52. Some of these posts are like political Tourette's Syndrome...

.

[indimuse]

78. you really should step out and get some TRUTH!

[AllentownJake]

79. Listen

I'm not into cults. Ok, sell Hillaryland somewhere else.

[indimuse]

80. oh...oh..oh..YOU R knee deep baby!

Get real!

[NobleCynic]

88. What is the point of that collection of pictures

You're trying to make a point, but what?

[Kittycat]

43. Fail

I guess you missed that Childers won last night, and it was never supposed to happen.

[skipos]

44. You and Hillary must be bummed

that every time the GOP tries to tie a Dem to Obama, the Dem wins. My condolences.

[lojasmo]

47. MS-01 is R+10 Your post is idiocy.

LA-06 was R+5

The Obama ads HELPED the democrats, ostensibly.

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[last_texas_dem]

49. "Traditionally Democratic" on the MS Congressional district-level does not equal

Democratic on the national level. Kerry lost the district by 25% and Gore by 19%; I'm sure Childers would have distanced himself from both of them, just as he did with Obama. He likely would have even chosen to distance himself from (gasp! dare I even suggest it?) Hillary Clinton as well.

[merh]

73. Actually, they tried to tie him to Kerry too.

They said that in the 2004 election he donated money to the most liberal senator evah, or some such meme :rofl:

The kitchen sink efforts of the GOP didn't work.

[Mz Pip]

53. Worked so well for them in MS

I'm done giving much consideration to "Democrats" who say they refuse to vote for Obama if he is the nominee. Votin against your best interests is not a progressive move at all.

[Ganja Ninja]

54. We already know the GOP prefers Hillary.

Tell us something we don't know.

[Occam Bandage]

58. And yet their attempt to smear Childers with Obama gave the Democrats one of the most conservative

districts in the country.

[bullwinkle428]

60. And this is working out VERY WELL for them!

[izzybeans]

62. Worked real well in Mississippi yesterday. Real well.

:rofl:

[goodboy]

63. let's not forget they're trying to make him Muslim as well (nt)

[thewiseguy]

64. The rethugs had that seat for 13 years!

Even the democrats from that constituency are pretty conservative. It was the right move for Childers to distance himself from the party figures and associate more with the voters to win that seat.

[MethuenProgressive]

82. 1873 to 2008, only 12 years in GOP hands. A traditionally Democratic seat.

And Obama almost cost us the election to win it back.

[LiberalAndProud]

93. Almost cost us the election to win it back by 8 or 9 points?

Yea. He might almost cost us the GE too.

Stop it. You're scaring me.

[thevoiceofreason]

65. They have tried thrice and failed thrice

I think the Repubs are sounding the ALERT that they are too WUSSIFIED to stand up to PRESIDENT OBAMA.

[BlooInBloo]

67. Obama's coat tails are 3/3 for getting Democrats elected. Clinton is *killing* Democrats' campaigns.

[Bensthename]

71. Newt G said GOP efforts have failed using Obama in ads. Haha..

That is good news and yes 3 out of last 3 congress races were won by a dem and rePubes were running anti-Obama ads to smear that candidate.

This is good news.. Newt says he is worried about this election too.. LMFAO..

[DadOf2LittleAngels]

74. umm MS1 is an R+10 district

Its been a republican seat for a dozen years! and yes it was Dixicr.... erm I mean democrat before that:

Whitten was originally a very conservative segregationist, as were many of his colleagues from Mississippi and the rest of the South. He signed the Southern Manifesto condemning the U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Board of Education, which desegregated public schools. Along with virtually the entire Mississippi congressional delegation, he voted against the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, 1964, 1965 and 1968. Whitten later apologized for these votes, calling them a "mistake" caused by severe misjudgment. He voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1991.

--

When his views were too extreme to keep hi min office he evolved them but the fact in a seat won for the past 6 cycles by 10+ points for republicans that a dem won it 'even after being tied to Obama' its a good sign of things to come for democrats..

Of course the R's are claiming that they would rather have Obama, he is going to win and they have to put on their war paint. I guarantee if Huckabee or Romney won the DNC would be saying 'this fits into our master plan' its their job to spin.

[cliffordu]

77. Blinding insight. They would have used this button if Hill were the favorite

[rateyes]

81. They TRY to use Obama to boost their candidates. Tried it in Mississippi

and lost to Childers. And, your "traditionally Democratic seat" is utter bullshit.

Ever stop to think that if Hillary was the presumptive nominee, they would try and use her to boost their candidates????

Nah, I bet you didn't stop to think about that.

And, as far as Tom Cole is concerned, of course he is saying that. He'd be saying he'd rather run against Clinton if she were going to be the nominee.

[julialnyc]

83. The point is that HE WON! They tried to tie Obama to him as a negative, but it didn't work

Dick Cheney campaigning for him probably hurt more than trying to link Childers to Obama

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-s-mcelvaine/paintin-it-blue-in-missis_b_101625.html

[MethuenProgressive]

99. The point is, to win, he had to distance himself from Obama

As will many others have to do if we nominate Barack.

[K8-EEE]

84. Their strategy hasn't worked, has it?

Let them keep it up! GOBAMA!

[NobleCynic]

85. Traditionally Dixiecrat is not traditionally Democratic

The seat is R+10 for crying out loud. Those that inhabited the seat prior to Wicker would not be considered Democrats in this day and age.

[NOLALady]

86. The traditionally Democratic seat

was actually Dixiecrat Democrats.

[MethuenProgressive]

87. Jamie Whitten was the Dixiest of Dixicrats, however:

The seat was traditionally a Democratic one, not a Republican one.

[Occam Bandage]

90. Pre-1994 conservative-coalition Democrat seats are no different environments than Republican seats.

[AtomicKitten]

89. The last three GOP seats up went to the Dem ran ads featuring Obama and Rev. Wright.

Brilliant strategy :silly: that I whole-heartedly endorse.

[The Doctor.]

92. Oh yeah?! Just think how much MORE those seats woulld have gone to the Dems

if they hadn't run those ads! :silly:

[spanone]

94. makes me endorse obama all the more

[quantass]

96. This GOP strategy so far has BACKFIRED getting more Democrats in office. My blessings to continue!

[Thrill]

97. All it does is energize young voters and black voters in these districts

GOP are better off just scaring the shit out of people with terror threats.

[4_Legs_Good]

98. Bring it on

This is a losing recipe and it's gonna prove more and more losing as time goes on.

David

[JVS]

100. They would never bash Hillary.

Although I might not be the best person to ask about that as I spent 1991-2000 in a coma.