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Rich talked to me just before the start of Bill Gunn’s Townsend town hall last night:
I was pleasantly surprised to find out he is the uncle of my friend Paul Howley owner of That’s Entertainment two of the best comic and hobby shops you will ever find in the Massachusetts
Today on the Hill Obama partisan Plouffe is trying to set unrealistic expectations to give the left the chance to say: Republicans fell short.
White House senior adviser David Plouffe — Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign manager — said that a bevy of races were in play, from the national to local level.
“There are a lot of competitive races out there. There’s going to be at least 70 House races in play, about 15 competitive Senate races, a couple dozen tough gubernatorial races,” he said in a video to supporters of Organizing for America, the president’s political arm.
Plouffe painted a picture of a dire electoral landscape in which, if Democrats were to lose the majority of those races, their losses would be massive.
Plouffe is trying to scare the troops into action and paints the most dire picture you have ever seen. Glenn Reynolds (by who I first saw the story) asks if he is inflating. The answer is he THINKS he is. Certainly on the senate side 15 is unrealistic, but the dynamics are very different.
For example Ma-1 is not on a lot of people’s radar, but Sitting congressman John Olver has challenged Bill Gunn to 3 debates. Think about that a second. A sitting congressman with nearly two decades in the house has been reduced to challenging a political newcomer to debate him on the issues in MASSACHUSETTS. And the 1st district includes the Berkshires, I guess the ‘Bama redneck area is now extending to the mountains.
This is likely being repeated all over the country. Plouffe is trying to spin but once people believe they can win they work harder. Once people are convinced they can make a difference it gets them off their rears and into the fight.
Plouffe is trying to reset what a “win” is just as the media and democrats. He is instead creating a self fulfilling prophecy it’s isn’t just money candidates need but willing workers. This speech is going to provide workers for republican candidates all over.
Remember congressional democrats, you did this to yourself.
memeorandum thread here
Started the evening in Townsend Mass. Where Bill Gunn was holding a town hall after his return from Washington
Standing out for Bill Gunn (r) Ma-01 in Townsend
His fans were already out in force holding signs large and small:
The big sign at the Corner
Some of the younger guys not only took signs but as the event started went back to parade them for motorists returning home via Route 119
All the cool kids are supporting the guy who rides a motercycle
And Bill took the time to meet with some of the voters before things got started:
I once cast a ballot this big
Bill gave me a few minutes telling me a bit about the Beck Rally (he attended), approving of any pro-business moves the administration makes (while stating bluntly they are trying to buy votes at the last minute), He told me his plans for September 11th (Event at Fitchburg State University) and broke some news telling me that John Olver has challenged him to three debates and he has accepted. (I was under the impression that 20 year incumbents generally don’t see the need to have multiple debates with new challengers. Better get Olver off the triage list STAT!)
From there my next stop was the Reading Tea Party where 4 other candidates for Congress spoke:
Keith Lepor ma-09
Keith Lepor never told me he was a combat reporter in Afghanistan who is only alive to challenge Stephen Lynch because his body armor stopped a short that hit him square in the heart:
The difference between a dead combat reporter and a live republican candidate
When I asked him why he never mentioned it during my interview with him last week he answered “You never asked.”
I met two candidates for the republican nomination to face John Tierney in the Mass 6th District first Rob McCarthy
Rob McCarthy (r) 6th district
And secondly Bill Hudak who I first met and Scott Brown’s victory party and who gets a lot of credit for announcing early way before the republican tide started to sweep the land:
Bill Hudak republican candidate ma-06
Either would be a better alternative that Tierney we also met Gerry Dembrowski one of two republicans seeking to retire Ed Markey in the 7th district:
Gerry Dembrowski (r) for ma-7
He emphasized that the current economic woes can be traced to longtime congressmen like Markey who let things get this far. We also had state rep candidate for the 9th Essex district airline pilot Ray Igou:
Ray Igou (r) 9th Essex District
The Axis of Fedora strikes again!
Of course the big news of the night was the expansion of the axis of fedora.
I’ll get the video up later, big day ahead tomorrow.
…they are for democratic congressmen that voted for it:
In the next two weeks, Democratic leaders will review new polls and other data that show whether vulnerable incumbents have a path to victory. If not, the party is poised to redirect money to concentrate on trying to protect up to two dozen lawmakers who appear to be in the strongest position to fend off their challengers.
“We are going to have to win these races one by one,” said Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, conceding that the party would ultimately cut loose members who had not gained ground.
So democratic bureaucrats will decide which sitting congress deserve attention and which should be left to die, all because the congress decided to go ahead with measures like obamacare that the voters didn’t want.
I wrote about this a few days ago, nice to see the Times catch up.
Hey Democrats you didn’t believe Obamacare would have death panels now your campaign lives are before them. Ironic isn’t it?
memeorandum thread here
Dare we say Panic!
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