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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2010 => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on January 26, 2010, 11:54:10 AM
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Hey, neighbor(s) in New York--lookie here!
The Next Martha Coakley?
by Steve Kornacki
The shocking GOP upset in Massachusetts has put Democrats on notice: Lackluster candidates are vulnerable, even in the bluest states. Steve Kornacki on Kirsten Gillibrand’s weaknesses.
When a Democratic Senate candidate loses in Ted Kennedy’s backyard, it’s cause for alarm for every Democrat up for reelection—especially those who thought they were insulated by the Democratic bent of their home state. Case in point: Kirsten Gillibrand.
To date, Gillibrand’s political career has been the definition of a charmed ascent, typified first by her campaign for the House in a can’t-miss year for Democrats (2006) against a Republican opponent who had to answer 11th-hour charges of spousal abuse, and then by her gubernatorial appointment to the U.S. Senate two years later.
And the breaks kept coming after she joined the Senate, as one ambitious New York Democrat after another took a pass on challenging her in the 2010 primary—from Steve Israel to Jerry Nadler to the two Carolyns (McCarthy of Long Island and Maloney of the Upper East Side) and even Bill Thompson, all of them cowed by Gillibrand’s deep pockets and some old-fashioned strong-arming from Chuck Schumer and the Obama White House.
Sure, there was the emergence of Harold Ford this month. The former congressman and Senate candidate from Tennessee, though little-known to New Yorkers, has become a useful vehicle for the considerable number of liberal bundlers and party regulars—to say nothing of the bored New York press corps—who have been disappointed by what Gillibrand has been able to offer so far, and who have expressed interest in backing Ford.
Ford, a far more natural and nimble politician than Gillibrand, has delighted in portraying the incumbent as a hothouse flower who owes her survival to the intercession of party bosses. His Blue Dog track record, coziness with Wall Street, and tone-deaf boasts of a pampered Manhattan lifestyle all do serious violence to his plausibility. But Ford’s taken a leave of absence from his day job, and has begun blasting Gillibrand in a series of op-eds—a drumbeat of criticism that can only weaken her position, even if it doesn’t help elect Ford.
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This is gonna be good!
The best part of this is that Chuckie Schumer (the "puppeteer," according to a lot of people) is vulnerable, too . . .
The rest of the article, which I found on Real Clear Politics, is at:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-25/the-next-martha-coakley/?cid=hp:mainpromo5
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Let's hope the momentum is strong enough to plow over ALL of the worthless critters. Dems AND GOP....
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I hope we get true conservatives in and take over the House and the Senate and make our POTUS a lame duck
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Hey, neighbor(s) in New York--lookie here!
:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:
This is gonna be good!
The best part of this is that Chuckie Schumer (the "puppeteer," according to a lot of people) is vulnerable, too . . .
:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:
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Gillibrand was never elected. She was appointed. She had a high NRA rating. Her district is pro gun. When she moved to the Senate, her pro gun stance was frowned down on. After McCarthy announced that she would run for the Senate if Gillibrand didn't change her stripes, she aligned with the anti gunners.
She's toast.
Edit for link.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/01/23/patersons-choice-of-gillibrand-touches-off-chain-reaction/tab/article/
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Gillibrand was never elected. She was appointed. She had a high NRA rating. Her district is pro gun. When she moved to the Senate, her pro gun stance was frowned down on. After McCarthy announced that she would run for the Senate if Gillibrand didn't change her stripes, she aligned with the anti gunners.
She's toast.
Edit for link.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/01/23/patersons-choice-of-gillibrand-touches-off-chain-reaction/tab/article/
That's what I hear. Kirsten decided to dance with the Party Hardies instead of the ones who brung her. Bye bye.