Let me just point out that the lack of competitiveness of this race is something that should be known to TPM since their own polltracker data confirms that Wehby never polled close to Merkeley.
Wehby is a non-story. She doesn’t even merit acrimony.
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sorta like joni nutball ernst bought and payed for by kock bro blood money they were made for each other…in frankeinsteins labratory…with abbynormal brains
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One of the prime reasons I visit TPM is to read the comments. TPM attracts folks like you who base their comments on personal experience and not some rote talking point written by somebody else. And that is a good thing. Read the comments on just about any other web site that reports news and what one sees are derp and thoughtless BS.
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Merkley hasn’t done anything to distinguish himself. That’s accurate. However, by the same token he hasn’t done anything terribly negative. The Koch bros. ads are pretty generic, and really seem aimed at the usual target, claiming Merkley was somehow responsible for all the deficit and debt. I don’t think they swayed all that many voters.
Wehby, on the other hand, has been a complete disaster. Like most GOP candidates, she is running against and not running for. Personally, she’s completely clueless and obviously has no idea what she’d do if she won. It seems very likely that she’d be another Koch drone without the capability of independent thought. In addition, sadly, she’s just not very likable, and while I hate to say that people vote on that basis, it’s true that they do.
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She has always reminded me of a deranged person. Look at her eyes. Scary. Oregon is lucky to have Senator Merkley.
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Too bad the commenting system is a uniquely and inexplicably incoherent dysfunctional mess, and there is no interest in doing anything about it. I guess after spending months developing it TPM is reluctant to admit their incompetence by dumping it and using Disquis or for that matter going back to the simple workable (other than spam) system they used to have.
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I was not referring to the commenting system but rather to those who comment.
Personally I don’t have a problem with this system. It took a day to get used to it, but I adapted. It’s way better than what I used to deal with over at Huffington Post (may they rot in hell).
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I don’t understand why medical doctors feel the need to go into politics. Is their day job not fulfilling? Did they put in all that work just to buff up their credentials as they poise for a campaign? Is it all about ego? The fact is, they are notoriously shitty managers and generally handle administrative tasks by ignoring them. Full disclosure - my Congressman is an MD in the safest of blue districts and I’m pretty happy with him - then again he’s a psychiatrist so maybe in the political game that skill set puts him above brain surgeons who can’t think, gynecologists who apparently hate women, and (fake) ophthalmologists.
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I and many others agree with you about HP (and TPM). Whenever I check that site I am surprised at the low volume of comments. I remember the days when they got 20,000 or more on some articles.
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I remember a few with over 100,000 comments, in Huffy’s heyday—which is long past.
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For a moment there, I thought I was reading an article about Martha Coakley…
“What is it with conservative docs, anyway? They manage to get through med school somehow, and then become creepy and stupid.”
I’m not a doctor and I’m not conservative, but I can point out at least one who did not fall into your categories. I will admit a bit of bias however, because I’m from Philly. Dr. C. Edward Koop was anything but creepy and stupid.
This was an extremely talented surgeon who had the cojones to stand up to Reagan when he was Surgeon General and push for the fight against HIV-Aids. If he hadn’t can you imagine where we would be now?
I think the issue is that there are some in the medical community who like anyone else, when they get a desire to ‘branch’ out, they take whatever stance they have to, to lure support, even if they have to invent ‘the crazy’.
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The reasons behind her slow reaction to the crises of her campaign are pretty simple. Wehby is used to always having things her way and does not control her anger when they don’t. She would have been a terrible Senator even if she were a liberal Democrat.
Aside from that Oregonians don’t need someone from Tennessee, who went to Notre Dame and then Baylor Medical school before moving here in 1998 representing us.
Jeff at least grew up in Oregon and understands the issues and their causes here.
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All the Koch’s horses and all the Koch’s men couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again.
Yes, I know, groan.
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Could you elaborate on this?
I’ve no issue with this system but I did have to develop new habits after discarding my old. Now that I better understand it’s workings i’m fine with it.
If I want I can view a comment with all of its replies forward or backward, view a persons comment trend in a thread…just about everything I want to do.
Moving off a system that cascaded replies was tedious but there are benefits of this new system that you don’t readily see.
Such as the diminished number of trolls…
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I left HP when they demanded I verify my humanity through Facebook. FB at the time required joining via a mobile device. Since I did not have a cell phone at that time I would have had to purchase one and then join a provider, all of which costs a pretty penny. Beyond the fact that I dislike FB why would I pay a phone company to be able to join FB to get verified as human by HP? Screw 'em all.
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I hear you. I left at the same time. I am not a FB user nor do I intend to ever be. Demanding someone join FB (or anything) to be allowed to post on your site is a loser and it shows.
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I don’t get the attitude that someone has to be born in a state and never leave it to represent it. I roll my eyes at all the people who have the OR NATIVE License Plate stickers. Someone who chose Oregon and has lived here nearly two decades can still have a pretty good idea about the state. There’s plenty of reasons to not like Wehby, this one isn’t a good one. It’d be like saying Merkeley isn’t a real Oregonian any more because he spends too much time in Washington DC.
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The GOP is so desperate to convince women that they are not waging a war against us that they fall for any women that comes along without doing the homework. I mean seriosly, they nominated Sarah Palin for Vice President. They are so out of touch they don’t even know what it is they don’t understand about women and their issues.
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The doctors are useful idiots to Republicans because they sound respectable and know absolutely nothing about politics, legislating and very little about real life outside of a hospital. The intensity of training leaves them the next thing to cloistered.
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