First it was Mark Ritchie, then Collin Peterson — the GOP launched attacks on them almost two years before the election, spending money on ads nobody cared about. They appear to have gotten bored about those attacks already. Now they’re running ads against Steve Murphy criticizing his voting record. They’ve also put together a Health Care Coalition to “help prevent a government takeover of the American health care system.” I’m sure that will go a long way toward helping them win seats in 2010.
What a mess! Shouldn’t they be focusing on building their party infrastructure to prepare from 2010, rather than shooting off at the mouths every few weeks? Do they really think they’re accomplishing anything right now?
They new GOP leaders aren’t thinking like real party leaders. In fact, they seem to be thinking more like bloggers.
Attacks are the poor man’s substitute for ideas.
Of course they are all over the map. Does that surprise anybody?
When you have nothing left to say, at least say it loud. It sometimes works.
Actually, one could see the “Healthcare Coalition” as an attempt to grab the energy of the Teabaggers and harness it into productive party building tactics like less standing in front of congressional offices where you won’t actually get anyone to change a vote, and more door to door canvassing ala Organizing for America.
Not saying they will be successful. Just saying.
It’ll be as successful as the key players in SE MN. (Wright, Davis, and Demmer)
Yeah, Republicans should act more like Democrats and call their blue dog members dumb and accuse them of corruption..yeah.
What the hell is a Republican Blue Dog? How do you get more conservative and in the pocket of special interests than Bachmann and Kline? Or are Republican Blue dogs like the two Senators from Maine… sane and centrists? Who’s a Republican Blue Dog?
You need to clear that up for me yaz…
Just goes to show what living in grandma’s basement gets you. S.M.R.T.
Yaz,
There are no “Blue Dog” equivalents in the Republican Party anymore, except for maybe Maine. Moderates are not even allowed in the Republican party. We have a big, and sometimes dysfunctional tent. You have a tent pole.
Thanks,
Alec
Hmmm, the statewide Coalition on Healthcare reform consists of a has-been former legislator (who was a featured speaker at last weekends’ “Tea Party Protest on healthcare”, a M.D. congresssional candidate who was solidly trounced in the last election by Tim Walz, and another M.D. who again failed at his run for a state senate office. This “coalition” consists of 3 Rochester individuals who are conservative buddies. It’s pretty much these guys sitting around and saying, “Let’s form a club and we can do a tent sleepover in someone’s backyard and maybe put on a show and perhaps even charge admission and I bet we can get our parents to show up and it will be great!”
If Team Sutton hasn’t learned anything from Team Carey, the DFL will remain in good shape.