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Responding to questions about the Republican Party’s new agenda rollout, scheduled for Thursday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said the plan “will help the president's message of wanting to go back to the ideas of 2008," The Hill reports.
“Citizens for the Republic, a conservative grass-roots lobbying group, plans to release a stark, one-minute ad on Wednesday called ‘Mourning in America,’ a play on the 1984 ad for Ronald Reagan, ‘Morning in America,’” the New York Times writes. “The ad is a blunt, almost point-by-point comparison to the hopeful, optimistic spot from Reagan’s re-election year.”
The Hill looks at House Democrats "working hard to create distance between themselves and their party’s leadership in Washington on the airwaves."
DELAWARE: Christine O’Donnell declared on Sean Hannity: "I'm not going to do any more national media." The Hill: “She plans on following the advice of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and shutting out the national press for the remainder of the campaign. ‘It's interfering with my ability to campaign,’ O'Donnell said of the national media presence in Delaware. The candidate said her campaign is asking event organizers in Delaware to limit press access at some events, ‘because of the frenzy these things have become.’”
O'Donnell also “took aim at New Castle County Executive Chris Coons (D) Tuesday night during an appearance on Fox News,” The Hill writes. “Prompted by host Sean Hannity about Coons’ years-old comment, she said, ‘If the media is going to attack me for statements I made in my 20s, that's fair game. He made some very anti-American statements, apologizing for America and calling himself a ‘bearded Marxist.’ … Coons said earlier Tuesday on CNN that the reference was made in jest, calling it ‘a tongue-in-cheek reference to how Republicans on campus’ viewed his transformation from a Young Republican to a Democrat… On her own previous statements about having ‘dabbled into witchcraft’ when she was in high school, O'Donnell said it was just a case of ‘teenage rebellion.’”
ILLINOIS: Republican Senate nominee Mark Kirk’s political allies have no problem calling his Democratic opponent Alexi Giannoulias a “failed mob banker,” but don’t expect Kirk himself to use the term, the AP writes. In an interview, “Kirk repeatedly refused to characterize his opponent with the same language Illinois and Washington GOP operatives employ…. But just in case there was doubt about the loans, Kirk brought along a handy sheet that highlighted the Giannoulias family's Broadway Bank loans to those with suspected links to organized crime.”
MASSACHUSETTS: "In a display of the increasing tension in the race, the three major candidates for governor attacked one another’s records aggressively last night in a major televised debate that focused far more on their pasts than on their visions for Massachusetts," the Boston Globe reports.
MISSOURI: “The Missouri Democratic Party released an internal poll yesterday that shows Senate candidates Robin Carnahan, Democrat, and Roy Blunt, Republican, tied” at 37 percent, the Springfield News-Leader reports.
NEW YORK: Mayor Michael Bloomberg will endorse Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Cuomo today, NBC New York reports.
Is Carl Paladino really within striking distance of Andrew Cuomo in a new Quinnipiac poll? It has Cuomo up just 49%-43% among "likely voters."
WISCONSIN: Roll Call's Tricia Miller checks in on the Feingold-Johnson Senate race: "Feingold seems unfazed. He said polling taken for his campaign around the Sept. 14 primary showed him ahead. Still, Johnson is partly self-funding his campaign and won’t lack for resources in the home stretch… In the six weeks from now to Election Day, Feingold said, he plans to emphasize his role as an independent, bipartisan and accessible representative for the Badger State."
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What a surprise.
Indeed what a surprise. O'Donnell is not Palin.
staying from the national media is the least of her problems.
the allegations that she paid her rent with campaign funds, when she was not running for office is going to bring her down. i really don't think she thought she could win so the fact she was using campaign fund for personal use would have never come out.
she says its a liberal group that is bring her down, but we must not forget this same group, got charlie rangle and maxie waters. democrats.
i loved how she spent money on dinner for her self, 22 bucks worth and called it entertainment expence. as well as flying and submitting that as campaign travel expenses while she was not running for any thing.
lets face it, sarah palin stopped talking to the national media because she got punked, O'Donnel is hiding from the national media because there are question she will have to answer sooner or later, and its not about seeing Russia from her front window.
Now that this has come out and if she does win that senate seat chances are that she will not have it long. Are the republicans going to give her money, now that we all see she has been living on campaign funds for some time. she has not worked for 5 years. at least Sarah had a job and her husband worked as well.
2 week ago when the republicans sent out the Robo calls about her accusing her if using funds inproperly, and not paying her staff, i was appauled that they would do this to a fellow republican but i see that the voters in delaware made a real big mistake.
Kos/PPP has Senator Feingold down by ELEVEN points! That's just shocking...
The national lame stream socialist press ( NLSSP) tried to do a Palinesque on O'Donnell like what they did before on the national front. It backfired on them. They sharpened up their knives to razor thin edges waiting for O'Donnell so that they could stick their long knives in her. She saw through their games and gave them the finger. Good for her.
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Witchy women,First Palin and her witch doctor footage and now O donnell, and her admitting to have been a follower while in high school,(baggers united)and she says with that fake laughter,didn't everyone have friends like that when they were in high school.Dahhhh no witches at my graduation.And these are the stars of the baggers movement,the queens of the dippers.One can only wonder what kind of child hood these two had,dates taking them to the satanic alters for a picnic,sorry we went to the local park for our picnics.And there basers eating up there lies,and what about the fake glass O'donnell has been wearing the glasses(she doesn't wear glasses) trying to even look like the thriller from Wassilla,even wearing the same type of red dress the thriller wears,This woman is a wacko,plain and simple,and the RNbaggers except this?
O'Donnell knows the games they play, Like CBS, Couric and the others on MSNBC.
Exactly! How dare them ask about their background or the issues! How dare them ask questions that help the voters decide if they want to vote for them, or not! How dare they ask a Senate candidate whose votes will have national consequences questions that will reveal their policy views! Those mean ole journalists should mind their own business!
Fake news should help. Yeah really just soft pitch the witch and help the sheeple try and understand the crap she is saying in the name of god! What ever! O'Donnell is a fool and is about as smart a toad is a boiling pot.
These candidates that can not stand up to the press and the scrutiny of the general public they wish to represent are pathetic. Lets face it lets be honest Palin and others don't answer general questions from the press or public because they look stupid trying to answer simple questions. You know like when the mean spirited Katie Couric played "gotcha" journalism by asking Palin "what newspapers do you read". It is not the media's fault or democrats, or liberals fault that they sound stupid when asked legitimate questions. This new one wants a $176,000 job a year paid for by the public but does want to be asked how she has supported herself for the last several years, that's not a fair question the for the "lame-stream" media to be asking her. These canidates are an insult to honesty, education, quality and to the republican brand.
I like that O'Donnell chose to go on Hannity's national show to say that she is not going to do the National Press. Why doesn't she just say what she means... "I will only do national press when I know they will try to make me look smart."
Christine O’Donnell declared on Sean Hannity: "I'm not going to do any more national media."
Translation: I cannot subject myself to serious scrutiny because of what it might truly reveal. I'll just lob grenades from the cozy confines of the right-wing Fox-hole!
Yep. Another exhibit in the modern-day Rethug political strategy: Palinate, prevaricate, alienate then celebrate! And believe it or not there are idiots out there who see this as a winning, acceptable formula when deciding a senator! Thankfully they are in the minority. Well, got news for you, you Whiny Witch: following Sarah's advice to shut out media scrutiny didn't get her elected, did it? In fact, all this shunning the media stuff has simply cemented her Simpleton credentials with the American electorate despite Hannity's and Fox's makeover attempts. At least she can claim paritial experience as governor. What do you have to peddle: part-time grifter? Good luck with that!
I love how Palin (who is a complete media whore) is advising O'Donnell not to talk to the media. Palin, who is where she is soley because of the media, loves to rail against the very thing that has made her what she is today. All of you Palin apologists seem to have forgotten something- right after she was picked by McCain has his VP candidate, the media had a complete love affair with her. It was only after it became readily apparent that she was woefully under qualified and ill prepared did they ‘turn their backs on her’. Yes, how dare the ‘lame stream media’ ask her questions she can’t answer! They are a bunch of elite liberals for asking her to talk about what she reads to stay informed on current events!
And now they're going to do the same thing with O'Donnell- making excusses for her. "They are only doing this to tear her down! They have a leftist-marxist agenda!" Stop making excusses for her and admit she is a less than stellar candidate who is avoiding the media because she knows they will reveal her for what she really is- a carbon copy of Sarah Palin.