wading through the latest on the no chance Senate Candidates
I. Â Mississippi. Â Here’s Mississippi’s Democratic Senate candidate weighing in on an issue of utmost importance… the momentary lack of mention of “God” in the Democratic Party platform.
“I wouldn’t worry about it,” Mississippi Delegate Albert N. Gore said. “It doesn’t bother me from the standpoint that I know where I stand and I know that there is one and that’s it.”
You’ll be happy to know that  God made his way into the platform.
We’ll see if his Albert Gore’s lackadasical attitude toward the issue costs him the election.
We’ll see if his Albert Gore’s lackadasical attitude toward the issue costs him the election.
II. Utah. Â Yes. Â This Democratic contender is a real winner.
Scott Howell, Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch’s Democratic opponent this November, has distributed a fundraising letter deriding Hatch an “old guy†and warning that the senator could “die before his term is through.”
“I’m going to be frank,†Howell writes, according to the letter posted by ABC 4 News in Salt Lake City. “Orrin Hatch is not a bad guy. But he is an old guy.”
“I’m going to be frank,†Howell writes, according to the letter posted by ABC 4 News in Salt Lake City. “Orrin Hatch is not a bad guy. But he is an old guy.”
Actually this “How do I make this an issue?” has been around since at least Adlai Stevenson tried to play the Nixon next in line after Eisenhower’s heart attack card. Â Or the last Strom Thurmond opponent saying that it’s time to send him home… (To that last one… yes, but it was time back in the 1950s.)
III.  Rhode Island.  Why is Nate Silver’s moderately modest nod to  Barry Hinckley grounds for a “on way to upset if everything everywhere pulls right” news column?
IV. Â Minnesota. Â This is weird, coming from a Ron Paulista.
During a speech at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School yesterday, Bills, a Republican from Rosemount, made some heretical statements. He said he’d support a tax increase as part of a plan to reduce the federal budget deficit, even if it meant getting into a fist-fight with anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist.
And now he gets some push back.
But some conservative pundits think Bills’ Humphrey comments serve as further evidence that the high school teacher’s Senate campaign has gone completely off the rails.
Conservative blogger John Gilmore analyzed Bills’ tax remarks as follows: “Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse.”
His campaign never really was on the rails.
And now he gets some push back.
But some conservative pundits think Bills’ Humphrey comments serve as further evidence that the high school teacher’s Senate campaign has gone completely off the rails.
Conservative blogger John Gilmore analyzed Bills’ tax remarks as follows: “Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse.”
His campaign never really was on the rails.
V. Â Vermont’s Republican Party dodged a bullet with their low-key primary.
Having lost his primary bid to John MacGovern, Paige won’t get to take on Bernie Sanders in the general election. But he’s apparently turned his sights even higher, and is now trying to get Barack Obama removed from theVermont ballot. Paige alleges in his lawsuit that the incumbent president isn’t a “natural born citizen.â€
Having lost his primary bid to John MacGovern, Paige won’t get to take on Bernie Sanders in the general election. But he’s apparently turned his sights even higher, and is now trying to get Barack Obama removed from theVermont ballot. Paige alleges in his lawsuit that the incumbent president isn’t a “natural born citizen.â€
Sigh.
VI. Â Headline of interest. Â TexMessage: Paul Sadler says Texans laugh at Ted Cruz. Â Maybe. Â But can he get them to vote for him?