{"id":6315,"date":"2010-06-14T12:37:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T19:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=6315"},"modified":"2010-06-14T12:37:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T19:37:20","slug":"campaign-updates-round-the-bend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/06\/14\/campaign-updates-round-the-bend\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign updates Round the Bend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another interview with Alvin Greene<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0— and it is here that I will suggest we can close the door on media interviews with Alvin Greene.\u00c2\u00a0 I do not see what purpose any more attention can serve.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, Investigate all curious avenues<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0— but keep some other avenues in mind<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0which work against your claims.
\nI have a problem with Representative Clyburn.\u00c2\u00a0 I do not want to preclude a primary challenge against Clyburn, even from possible gadflys or incompetents, or the threat for 10 percent of the primary vote.\u00c2\u00a0 His “suspicion” against his primary challenger shades a little too far in precluding challengers.\u00c2\u00a0 As for the matter of the other flukey Democratic that beat the “Real” Democrat — that may just be the same Election Night Syndrome that brought Greene the nomination, and instead of strengthening the case for “Plant” shenanagins, strengthens the case for “The Credible Candidate didn’t wage a Credible Campaign.”<\/p>\n

My question for Vic Rawls — after explaining the perimeters of his relatively piddling but highly typical when feeling that your candidacy is pretty well assured — and this is a point to be made to ALL candidates in his situation — by any rights, the probably challenger against the Incumbent, and far enough behind that you’re not likely to garner substantial backing for a credible “World Beater” campaign — seeing as the path to victory is such a steep climb — shouldn’t you be treating the Primary Campaign as an extension of the General Election and forcing your name awareness upward — that is the only way you’re going to put in effect anything except a static and flat donor base, and ensure against losing to Al Green.<\/p>\n

Alvin Greene, as you see in the interview, is just not altogether there.\u00c2\u00a0 The two points of clearest reference come in with his “pivot” from “My Lawyer’s dealing with it” with regard to his Felony\u00c2\u00a0Charge over to the\u00c2\u00a0visible mind search to a sort of cue card\u00c2\u00a0“(2:55) Relates to the third issue I’m dealing with — Justice in the Judicial system — [trails off badly]”, and the exchange\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0to charge of mental impairment from state legislators: [4:00] “I say that back to them then… they’re the knuckle-heads” and on to\u00c2\u00a0his answer of if he’s [5:20] “No — Just” …<\/p>\n

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\nIt’s good to see the Alex Jones “Prison Planet” website go to bat for Sharron Angle on the issue of Fluoridation<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 My sense of rightful propriety has been restored.
\nI do have a sense of dread on certain campaign politicking against Sharron Angle, as I do\u00c2\u00a0against Rand Paul.\u00c2\u00a0 Harry Reid’s new ad, coming from an issue discussed in the primary against Sue Lowden, targets Sharron Angle for having promoted “Massages” for prisoners — this particular program coming from\u00c2\u00a0a service provided\u00c2\u00a0by the Church of Scientology.\u00c2\u00a0 We probably do not want to provide the prison population massages, though I do not think that is an outlandish idea — and that’s my problem here.\u00c2\u00a0 If we did have some massage program in the prisons, it certainly shouldn’t be this thing — the Church of Scientology having an ulterior motive.
\nMy problem is that there are various Prison programs that will come across about the same\u00c2\u00a0to swarths of the electorate who veer toward the opinion that Prisons should resemble Attica, and that this is what Harry Reid is exploiting.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t really want to see a flanking to the right on Prisoner treatment.\u00c2\u00a0 I almost would be happier if Reid proposed his own entirely different Prison Massage Program — something which, obviously, is never going to happen.<\/p>\n

Similarly, the liberal talk radio host Thom Hartmann has come across a tad annoying in his discussing of Rand Paul.\u00c2\u00a0 “Wait until the Republicans in his state” learn about various libertarian stances from Rand Paul.\u00c2\u00a0 Top of the list includes Drug Decriminalization and cutting back the Pentagon budget.\u00c2\u00a0 Leaving aside the problem these positions are not held by Rand Paul, and for a minute pretend they are.\u00c2\u00a0 Hartmann is, eseentially, proposing that the Democratic candidate — Jack Conway — defeat Rand Paul by defeating stances that Thom Hartmann supports.
\nAs opposed to against …<\/p>\n

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“I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think anybody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to be missing a hill or two here and there<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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The thing about Carly Fiorina’s “is the mic on” gaffe — other than her non-apology apology for a matter which I think the public is pretty understandable in a “I can relate” kind of way of knowing that people say crude things in private that they wouldn’t in public —
\nThe thing about Carly Fiornina’s comment about Barbara Boxer’s hair is that having undergone chemotherapy for breast cancer and all that entails — to her hair, for instance — I would think that would provide her with some grounding of perspective against such catty and superficial disparagmennts.
\nRegretably, Fironina is not beyound using\u00c2\u00a0her experience with\u00c2\u00a0“Cancer” card in a debate where his opponent brought up something about her CEO-record, and she responded with a non-sequitur time-line wise which suggested the issue was beyond bounds — “Did you hear what I just said<\/a>?”.<\/p>\n

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Okay.\u00c2\u00a0 I DARE the Democratic Party in California\u00c2\u00a0to run another refashioned “Demon Sheep” ad!\u00c2\u00a0 The closer to the original ad the better.
\nJust like I dare the Republican Party to refurbish the Dead Kennedy’s song “California Uber Alles” for the Gubernatorial race between Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown.\u00c2\u00a0 Though, I suppose Jello Biafra would not be one to give clearance for use of the song — his opinion of Jerry Brown has evolved<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rounding things up here … Okay.\u00c2\u00a0 Fine.\u00c2\u00a0 Rick Barber for Congress<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Weee!\u00c2\u00a0 Also, note to Bob Etheridge<\/a>: Um.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone’s a blogger and everyone’s carrying around a video, you know that right?\u00c2\u00a0 I also need to note a good reason not to donate to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee — as we see here<\/a>, money will be spear-headed to the effort to elect this guy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another interview with Alvin Greene\u00c2\u00a0— and it is here that I will suggest we can close the door on media interviews with Alvin Greene.\u00c2\u00a0 I do not see what purpose any more attention can serve.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, Investigate all curious avenues\u00c2\u00a0— but keep some other avenues in mind\u00c2\u00a0which work against your claims. I have a problem […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6319,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6315\/revisions\/6319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}