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Tim Kaine: Cheerleader-In-Chief

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“I didn’t have a plan for CA… it was all a lie.”

The Meg Whitman for Governor campaign released a new 30-second statewide television ad titled “Again” focusing on Jerry Brown’s CNN interview where he admitted he didn’t have a plan when he ran for Governor of California and it was all a lie.

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McMahon Closes on Blumenthal

Today’s Quinnipiac Poll has Linda McMahon pulling within 3 points of Attorney General Dick Blumenthal in Connecticut – a statistical dead-heat.  4% of voters remain undecided.  McMahon has eviscerated a nearly 40 point lead Blumenthal held towards the beginning of the year.  The Q-Poll release also states: “Independent voters shift from 47 – 46 percent for Blumenthal September 14 to 49 – 44 percent for McMahon today.”  This is critical for McMahon in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans.

October 4th will be the first debate between McMahon and Blumenthal and could be a game changer in this race that has taken on national significance to the GOP since the all-but-certain forfeiture of Delaware to the Democrats.

Teflon Dick: McMahon/Schiff Continue to Sputter

Rasmussen, a polling outfit that is known as friendly to Republicans, has Linda McMahon down 23 points to Richard Blumenthal, 56-33, in the Connecticut Senate race.  Peter Schiff, who has contributed to his own campaign a fraction of what Linda McMahon has to her’s, is only one point behind Linda at 32%.

While many in Washington predicted Blumenthal’s political career was sunk, Connecticut voters have measured his comments versus his twenty years of  press conferences and lawsuits ostensibly on their behalf.  The likely voters surveyed by Rasmussen split down the middle, 49-49, over whether or not Blumenthal’s “misstatements” would play an important role in determining how they ultimately decide to vote.  Blumenthal is already moving past the…

Democrats: So Classy

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Democrats just can’t get over the timing of Hurricane Gustav and the Republican National Convention. Last night on Keith Olbermann’s propaganda show “Countdown” Michael Moore claimed:

“I was just thinking, this Gustav is proof that there is a God in heaven,” Moore said, laughing. “To have it planned at the same time – that it would actually be on its way to New Orleans for day one of the Republican Convention, up in the Twin Cities – at the top of the Mississippi River.”

A few seconds later, he thought to qualify his remarks by…

Could Barack Pick Anyone Worse?

OK, he could have picked Dennis Kucinich, but all jokes aside…

Joe Biden, consummate Washington insider, has been deemed worthy by The One to join his campaign for change. Could The Messiah have picked anyone worse for the job?

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Biden is a walking time bomb, dropping gems like this as recently as 2006:

I’ve had a great relationship [with Indian Americans],” Biden said. “In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.

Then there’s Neil Kinnock. Most political junkies know this story,…

She Was Never Even Vetted

The Politico’s Mike Allen has a story up about Barack Obama’s Veep selection process and the one person every pundit inside the Beltway thought would be included in it – Hillary Clinton.

“She was never vetted,” a Democratic official reported. “She was not asked for a single piece of paper. She and Senator Obama have never had a single conversation about it…”

Senator Obama, aka. The One, The Messiah, the once-in-a-lifetime leader who will move our country behind our partisan bickering and petty differences into an era of post-partisan euphoria couldn’t even bring himself to vet his opponent for the Democratic nomination.  The gesture…

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