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Subscribe to RSSARIZONA: “Sen. John McCain says he disagrees with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's statements that most people crossing the U.S. southern border illegally are smuggling drugs, but he thinks she is doing a good job of standing up for her state,” the AP remarks of McCain’s “Meet The Press” appearance this Sunday.
The Tuscon Sentinel reports that McCain and former Rep. J.D. Hayworth will face off in two back-to-back debates on July 16th and 17th.
CALIFORNIA: “Reaching out to a key voting bloc, Republican Senate nominee Carly Fiorina held a Latino-themed town hall Saturday afternoon in Sacramento, heaping praise on California's Latino community for representing "the best of who this nation is," the Los Angeles Times reports. “The event, paired with Fiorina's launch of a new Spanish-language website, Amigos de Carly, is part of an ethnic outreach tour” for the candidate.
FLORIDA: “Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will back Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum's campaign for governor today, adding a powerful conservative voice to the group of national Republicans rallying to McCollum in his primary race against self-funding health care mogul Rick Scott,” Politico reports.
The Miami Herald details “the paradox of Scott's upstart campaign: The novice candidate has touted his stature and experience as the get-things-done CEO of what was once the nation's largest for-profit healthcare company, while also trying to distance himself from Columbia/HCA's notorious legacy of fraud.”
ILLINOIS: “U.S. Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias says former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich's lawyers have subpoenaed him to testify at Blagojevich's corruption trial,” the AP reported yesterday.
MARYLAND: Gov. Martin O’Malley is airing two negative radio ads against his Republican challenger for re-election, former governor Robert Ehrlich, framing him “as perhaps the only thing worse this year than an incumbent politician: a lobbyist working for big oil,” the Washington Post writes. “The ads have jarred to life what had been a sleepy campaign for governor and indicate that O'Malley and Ehrlich intend to resume the same sort of in-the-mud and in-your-face tactics that both employed when they faced off four years ago.”
MASSACHUSETTS: “Governor Deval Patrick has improved his political standing in recent months but still faces major hurdles in his bid for reelection, according to a new Boston Globe poll, which shows Republican rival Charles D. Baker gaining ground and many voters dissatisfied with the direction of the state and the governor’s handling of his job,” the Boston Globe reports.
TEXAS: Democrats at the state’s convention on Friday declared, “Don't pay any attention to that city on the Potomac,” the Dallas Morning News writes. “‘It's not about Washington. It's about putting Texas first,’ Democratic nominee Bill White told delegates in his Friday night speech formally accepting the party's nomination for governor.”
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Am I the only one that finds delicious irony in watching the GOP now attempt to somehow win back the hearts and minds of those they have spent the last few years demonizing?
Does the GOP really think that the Latino community will forget their specious arguments and positions on immigration and turn around and cast a vote for the GOP? This should be fun to watch!
Disgusted,
That appears to be their mode of operation. They know that many Americans has a very short memory span, they are counting on this. Also, these guys will just keeping on telling false truths knowing that if some people hear them often enough,they must be true. Why else would entities like Fox still be around????
If you enjoy watching the RE-peat-the-lie-to-the-PUBLIC-ans contradict themselves, good for you. I tend to find it disturbing that it works for them with as much of the populace as it does, Mixed Bag and all.
Us and Paul,
I agree with you. I have a feeling though, that the GOBP may well have bitten off more than they realize with the Latino community. These people are hard working, loyal, and will NOT forget the way they have been treated at the hands of the GOBP. I have a feeling that the GOBP has succeeded in driving away not only this generation of Latinos, but quite possibly the next two or even three generations as well.
Considering that the Latino community is among the fastest growing demographics in this country, is it really wise to alienate what is already a quite large (and rapidly expanding) voter base? Have fun in November people!
New poll out Friday from the farm club for MSNBC "contributors", Newsweek.
Andrew Romano writes:
"...solid majorities of Americans now disapprove of the way the president is handling almost every major challenge confronting his administration-a complete reversal from only four months ago, when he enjoyed broad public support on the issues."
And;
"Unless the picture improves, Obama's Democrats will have a hard time retaining their congressional majorities in November."
On the positive side, the President is still above water on job approval: 48% approve-46% disapprove.
This might be a real good time to tell AG Holder to hold off on the federal lawsuit against Arizona.
Mixed up Bag of Chicken
Back from your retreat. Man enough to stick around this time, draftee.
Well, well...
If it isn't the Rosie O'Donnell of First Read, Paul-977599...and she's very, very angry with me because I won't discuss her deranged conspiracy theories. Still think I'm bob, paranoid one?
Relax, Rosie...take a Midol and cool your jets. I'm sure you'll find someone else to listen to your silliness, although sooner or later, everyone realizes that there's zero upside to being involved in your insane rants.
As for my military service, why don't we discuss yours for a moment, Rosie...oh, wait, that's right. The military has mental acuity tests.
You don't qualify to serve, do you...?
As predicted he wants to know about someone else's military service, in cyberspace. Talk about a lack of mental acuity. Try reviewing the discussion you weren't man enough to engage in and had to have your wingman do the dirty work until you came back in late. Draftee. Is it any wonder you guys lost to the Viet cong, you don't understand your function as a TOOL.
Blah, Blah, Blah...wingman...blah, blah, blah...cyberspace...
Blah, blah, blah, Rosie.
You can't deny it you poor TOOL. The discussion is right there for inquiring minds to see, read, and understand. Oh, that's right , that wouldn't apply to you.
Bye, Rosie-
From here on out, you're talking to yourself.
But then...you always are, aren't you?
Mixed Bag and Paul, will you two PLEASE stop your Personal Bickering or take it to e-mail or some other media, maybe Facebook. The rest of us adults here would like to be able to read Opinions without the several-in-a-row sets of insults you trade back and forth.
If you cannot bring yourselves to stop the personal bickering then I suggest you go and get a Hotel Room...but really, that kind of conduct is unbecoming for adults and is becoming very tiresome to the rest of us: Please Stop It!
As to your original post, Mixed Bag, I put absolutely no trust in Newsweek. It has been, for a very long time, a sensationalist rag devoted towards the lowest possible common denominator and is only slightly, VERY slightly, better than the National Inquirer. I do not trust polls in the first place, and any Newsweek poll is going to be slanted so far as to be nearly horizontal. Therefore I really do not think that that poll is at all accurate, except maybe amongst the used teabags and other Repub sects.
B. Honest-
Actually, I did put an end to my part of that discussion, B. Personally, I would prefer not to engage that particular individual at all, but he seems to need the exchange, so...
Anyway, you're correct...it went on too long.
As to Newsweek, I agree with your comments about that publication, specifically...I would simply add that I thought the poll noteworthy because of Newsweek's obvious, left-of-center stance. We disagree on that, evidently. And the poll did relate to the topic posted...the mid-term elections.
However, it doesn't sound as though you'll be heartbroken at the eventuality of Newsweek's possible demise.
Maybe we agree on that as well.
B Honest
Thanks for weighing in. He really can't help himself. He really thinks that it is smart to call things he doesn't understand nonsense. Is it any wonder he was drafted? Prolly couldn't think about going to college until he got back from Nam. Not that he understood what he was doing there either. As an example, he keeps trying to insult me by calling me Rosie; I take no offense at that because while she doesn't know half of what I know about 9/11, she cares enough to know a hundred times more about that "event" than Mixed up Bag of Chicken. He's actually afraid to know the truth of how ignorant he is and display it to you or anyone else that bothers to read his drivel.
Ah, Rosie-
Still chugging along merrily, I see...
The little paranoid schizophrenic that could...
"merrily" and "paranoid schizophrenic" at the same time? Mixed up Bag of Stupid proves himself to be once again.
Knarly Carly Phony Fiorina will lie, cheat and steal to get her way into power. This overpaid receptionist isn't going to fool enough Latino's because she made lots of disparaging remarks against them during the primaries and all Barbara Boxer has to do is show clips of Phony Fiorina trashing illegal immigrants from the primary run.
Democrat Bill White is going for the sage old adage that all politics are local. Democrats definitely want to localize their races and show the local people that Democrats will do more for them than the repugnant ones who only help the rich and greedy.
Looks like Crash Dummy McCain is putting some distance between himself and Sieg Heil Brewer before the primary. Looks like he's getting a little mavericky before the primary instead of after it. Axis Jannie just spouts any old Great Right Lie to try to justify arizona's putrid facist racist profiling law.
Your right Eric. If you think the Latino community will vote for this racist, anti-immagration fool your crazy. The Latino community is a tight knit group of people who have always stuck togeather to protect themselves from people like Fiorina. She'll be lucky to get a handful of votes, maybe from her maid and butler. Nice hairdo Fiorina. LOL.