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March 25, 2010 07:26 AM UTC
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What is the response from the Bennetistas?
Is this true?
I did not get this email.
This is so far outside anything they have done, or any Bennet supporters have done, that it strikes me as a fake set up to hurt Bennet.
from the Bennet campaign. It went out at about 5 o’clock this afternoon.
Whose idea was this?
from the campaign?
in its entirety, not including addressing info and a signature. It was sent by the campaign’s new communications director, who is quoted in the release.
has just made a mistake.
And I didn’t receive it. Did it go out to a small subset?
And what was the purpose behind this? If you want something like this going around, you get a 3rd party to send it so you can stay above the fray. This was stupid.
I guess I don’t count as press 🙁
What the hell were you expecting when you thought both candidates could use some bloodying up? Hula hoops and moonbeams?
It’s called primary politics. Romanoff has been sending out negative e-mail blasts accusing Bennet of being corrupt, I don’t see how that’s any less stupid than this.
Can’t wait till August!
Primaries are good and make everyone better candidates.
Primaries are good and make everyone better candidates.
Primaries are good and make everyone better candidates.
(repeat until true)
And remind yourself, it’s still only March. Good Lord.
Instead of discussing the points in it, we’re discussing the fact that a letter of this type was sent. It’s not getting the job done.
I don’t think anyone on here is the intended audience for it, though it will excite some discussion for its tone. (It doesn’t sound like it got much pick-up in the press, either, probably because its points are moot by today, the country has moved on.) This was a message to the Romanoff campaign: “You think we’ve played rough so far? Watch us.”
As much as I do not support Bennet, I really hope this isn’t really from him. What I do know is that several people received it tonight from 2 different Bennet supporters in an effort to convince them to support Bennet over Romanoff. And before some of the crazier Romanoff supporters start pointing fingers, no – the sender was not Madco, caroman or peacemonger.
How exactly do you score the various grades of crazy?
And why are you so sure that Trevor Kinkaid is not any of the Pols users you named?
Kincaid just got here this week.
It all sounds about right to me. It felt like a small stretch to say AR is aligning with the GOP.
But, the guy who hired Caddell is aligned with the GOP on the healthcare – start over, amend the reconciliation bill and send it back to the House, delay is ok.
It’s ok – Sirota has the same position an we all understand he’s a fierce progressive.
Andrew Romanoff is an ardent supporter of Single Payer Healthcare – He was constant and outspoken while in the Colorado legislature.
However, it does help to have a “bully pulpit.” The best way for Andrew to push for a Public Option as a standalone bill in the US Senate is for us to be sure that we elect him in the August Primary and then in the General Election in November. I feel confident that he will be a strong advocate for such a bill once he is our senator!
Really. Honest, to-the-point, and without villifying anyone in the process.
if off subject.
Anytime anyone says anything about this primary or one of the candidates in it without beating someone up, calling someone names, or characterizing someone as a morally inferior being, I’m going to say “good job!” It’s a low threshold, but it’s the best that can be hoped for at this point.
but I have always said Romanoff seems less interested in the public option for sick people’s sake than he is trying to score political points. If he really wants a public option, he should push the Senate for a stand-alone bill… soon. That’s a truer test of his support.
I didn’t send the email nor receive it. I would not have forwareded it. It’s an exaggeration, but I can see how some people might reach the same conclusion from his recent actions to interfere with the reconciliation bill.
n/t
I don’t think Romanoff has exactly conspired with the Republican party, but his actions do indicate an obvious desire to kill the remainder of health reform. Many of us have explained ad nauseum that insisting on the public option be put in with the recon bill kills the recon bill. A separate, stand-alone public option bill is the way to go. Same result, slightly different strategy.
It’s like putting your salad dressing on your salad before you go to work, knowing it will wilt your lettuce by the time you eat it, or putting it in a separate container and pouring it on just before you eat your salad. Same content, safer delivery.
One can only surmise that Andrew and Sirota’s pushing for the unsafe delivery of the remainder of the health reform package is an attempt to kill it. I personally can’t find any other logical explanation. If there is one, Andrew owes it to 32 million Americans affected by health reform.
and shouldn’t do anything like it again.
The Bennet advantage was being the campaign not doing this kind of thing. It just lost that advantage in one fell swoop.
That letter should have been thought about a bit longer before being sent out. While I don’t find any details that aren’t at least arguable points, the language is hyperbolic. The breathlessly accusative style is about 180 degrees off Bennet’s laid-back, common sense persona.
I’d be interested to hear if any papers actually ran this.
It is not uncommon when a phone rings somewhere and a candidate for office chews out a staffer for doing something stupid. It could be something as simple as that. Not impressive on the quality control level, but no biggie. No one who knows Andrew would believe that he knowingly would undermine the Democratic Party in that manner.
It is a bona fide Yawner to me. Much ado about nothing. I can only say that hyperbole is as contagious as herpes and as ineffective as coitus interruptus.
I don’t think that’s the point of the release, to the contrary. I think the subtext is that Andrew is getting mixed up in some rhetoric that could come back to bite him (in the shadow of the hiring decision on Caddell), and not just on the public option. But I agree it probably doesn’t amount to much in the scheme of things, everyone has been breathless and hyperbolic this week — no one wants to get left out in the cold by history, and no one’s been getting much sleep this week either.