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She has worked with GHWBās charitable foundation that does some very good work around the world. What is wrong with that? Are we so partisan that this is worthy of even commenting on?
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Iām not smacking her for it. Weāre not taking about her embracing the invasion of Iraq or Dubyaās disastrous environmental/energy policies. This is part of Nunnās resume, so why should she hide it? No matter how crazy her eventual opponent will be, Nunn will need all the help she can get to win independents and Republicans who are embarrassed about what their stateās political climate has become.
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For the most part, yes, I think we have become that partisan. That is why it is nice to have these types of stories so we can take a step back and think, āOkay, turns out we can work togetherā. It doesnāt seem like we can sometimes.
Uhā¦ thatās Points of LIGHT, Mr. Kapur.
Well, as a lifelong Democrat, Iām grateful sheās running, but she actually says nothing in her ads, nor in person. Her statements are all just the usual anti-Washington,āthe system is brokenā , with no specifics about what sheād do to fix the situation. She has a couple of opponents on the Democratic side, one of whom is a true progressive and talks specifics and has no issuue proclaiming who he is. She, however, never mentions that sheās a Democrat. She will probably win the primary, but sheās gonna have to get a little more specific to not turn me off. Which she does now in spades. Iād like to directly ask her why sheās running as a Democrat? Perhaps because she realizes that as a Republican sheād have no independence of action and have to vote lockstep with the crazies?
I happen to think that one can run as a real Democrat and let the GOP kill itself off in its primary and subsequent run-off, since there are 5 or 6 candidates for the Senate seat and all of them are trying to out conservative one another. If they nominate an outsider like her (Perdue), sheās gonna have to redirect her focus. I
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Good, sheāll keep Bush in the public eye and remind voters of the total destruction Republicans brought to the country the last time they had power.
She has no credible competition on in the primary. The party did their part to more or less clear the stage for her. She IS the candidate the Dems in GA want.
As far as her āpoliticsā, get used to very bland. She is for cute kittens and big hugsā¦and will get back to you any on actual policy positions. This is going to be her campaign, and to a certain degree, they are hoping republicans try to attack her on the kitten position. I only half way jest, as the strategy does seem to be that if she stays away from any actual issues, any attempt by republicans to engage her in a policy issue will fail as it comes across as an attack on such a nice woman. Thatās the strategy.
And she has to promote this aspect of her life becauseā¦there just isnāt much else there to go on. She has never been publicly involved in policy shaping let alone an actual elections. She was CEO for a network of non profits (it helps boost her kitten credibility I supposeā¦how could someone involved with helping people NOT like cuddly kittens??).
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This isnāt one of those type of stories. This is Sahil actually bothering to take a cursory look at the candidates for this fall. And in Michelleās case it would seem he is scratching her head wondering where the āthereā is.
To save some time, there really isnāt any āthereā,there. She is politically inexperienced and holds no policy positions on her sleeves. Just as important, her and her campaign are going to stay as far away from any policy position as they possibly can, let the republicans try and out crazy themselves by stacking out positions that would have made Attila the Hun blush as being too far out there, and then pick up the votes from the middle that arenāt in favor of crazy.
Yeah, from the headline I was expecting to see that she was saying the Iraq war, privatizing Social Security, or at least NCLB were good policies. None of which would be entirely surprising for a Southern Democrat. But touting her nonprofit work with some Bush namedropping is hardly worth a mention.
If we assume politics is a mirror, then knowing how the right goes nuts when a Republican is caught being civil to Obama, we assume the left goes nuts if a candidate did anything with a Bush. Judging from the prior comments, that appears false. No one seems bothered that she worked with a Bush on something that was a good thing to do. I noticed her ads say nothing else, so it sure seems she running on mush. She wonāt generate much in the way of Democratic enthusiasm, but there wonāt be any urge to purge her either. Of course, I reserve the right to revise that if she does start backing Republican policy positions. I just hope she realizes that sweet nothings arenāt enough to get the base to not merely vote, but to doorknock the drop-off Democrats.