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Allen West to Obama: ‘Heck, I’ll Even Debate You and Klein Together’
When Florida Democrat Ron Klein’s campaign announced that the incumbent would bring in President Obama and Nancy Pelosi for a big-money Oct. 11 fundraiser, his 22nd District challenger Allen West declared, “Welcome to the jungle.” Now the Republican has formalized that invitation in a new 30-second TV spot:
Welcome to South Florida Mr. President.
You and Ron Klein should leave that closed door, high roller fundraiser, and drive by our shuttered businesses and foreclosed homes.
I’ll go anywhere you wish to debate your failed big government policies.
Heck, I’ll even debate you and Klein together if that’s what it takes.
The people of South Florida deserve a chance to tell you what will work here to improve our economy.
If you don’t listen now, the voters will speak loud in November.
MD-5 UPDATE: Charles Lollar Endorsed by Ace of Spades and Dude Named ‘Mitt’
“I have great confidence in my candidates, and they’re doing just fine in their districts.”
— Nancy Pelosi
For some reason, Instapundit didn’t link Monday’s big post about Charles Lollar, a Marine intelligence officer challenging Steny Hoyer in Maryland’s 5th District. But this blog is read by the really important people — and also maybe Mitt Romney, who endorsed Lollar today.
Major Lollar got shout-outs from Jane Jamison at Uncoverage and from Reaganite Republican. (Also mentioned, not in a good way, by Dave Weigel who calls Lollar “a candidate no political handicapper thinks is actually in the position to score the upset.” Hey, Dave, I think you still owe me a beer for Christine O’Donnell’s upset of Mike Castle you didn’t see coming, to say nothing of Joe Miller in Alaska.)
The really big story today, however, is that Ace of Spades has climbed aboard the Stomp Steny Express:
I think this guy can do it. Someone’s getting shocked on November 2nd.
Dick Morris noted there were Democrats in real trouble who don’t even know it yet, since few bother to poll districts like Hoyer’s.
That mention by Dick Morris — on his radio blog, he just threw out Hoyer’s name as a potential upset victim if that Big Red Wave crashes ashore on Nov. 2 — evidently got people’s attention. My source close to Lollar says they’ve noticed Hoyer’s campaign trying to gin up an appearance of support from military personnel. Yet it seems that Steny himself is still whistling past his own political graveyard:
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer recently told Politico that he does not believe his party will lose control of the House of Representatives. Maybe it is part of the job description to live in La La Land, but if he really believes this then he is more out of touch than Stephen Colbert at a Congressional hearing. . . .
More than half the voters in his district live in southern, rural, conservative Maryland counties. Combine that with dispirited Democrats staying home on Election Day and Republicans energized like never before, and Hoyer is in real trouble. On top of that, Prince George’s County, Hoyer’s only base in his district, has higher unemployment and foreclosures than the surrounding areas. Clearly Hoyer’s clout in Congress hasn’t done much to benefit his supporters. . . .
Lollar is within 15,000 votes of the biggest upset of this election if he gets enough money in a hurry.
Serious as a heart attack, folks: When you look at Lollar’s dynamic can-do personality, and then you consider how disillusioned Democratic voters have become, 95,000 or 100,000 votes could be enough win this district, and Lollar’s the kind of guy who can do it.
CHARLES LOLLAR for U.S. CONGRESS
Make the Maryland Miracle Happen!
VIDEO: Ladd Ehlinger ‘Nancy Pelosi, Wicked Witch of the West’
Ladd Ehlinger WSJ Making-Of Clip
by Smitty
Ladd Ehlinger tweets that the WSJ has finally posted the behind-the-scenes look at the filming of his now-viral Jane Harman ad:
It appears that, for reasons of good taste, the Stacy McCain covered-in-pudding moment was edited out, leading to outbursts of hate in the Haight.
Go, Mattie Fein! Also, watch carefully, as John Dennis uses a bad word!
Previously:
A Bit Of Ark Snark
by Smitty
The excellent No Sheeples Here takes a scrap of an idea, based upon a Jennifer Rubin remark comparing the Democrat’s November prospects to a ‘deluge’, and does The Wonderful:
The bad news is the accuracy of the prophecy. My guess is that, as we take a look at the damage caused to the ship of state by smacking the Crisis Seamount in the Sea of Debt, the Deluge shall have seemed trivial.
And I hope I’m wrong.
Nancy Pelosi: Don’t Investigate Ground Zero Mosque, Investigate Opponents
Via Larry O’Connor at Breitbart.TV:
“There is no question there is a concerted effort to make [the Ground Zero Mosque] a political issue by some. And I join those who have called for looking into how is this opposition to the mosque being funded.”
— Nancy Pelosi
Kerry Picket of The Washington Times:
Calls to investigate the funding for those proposing the $100 million “Cordoba House” have fallen on deaf ears, though, as New York’s Mayor Mike Bloomberg has described such an investigation as “un-American.”
So it is “un-American” to investigate who’s footing the bill for the Ground Zero Mosque, but Pelosi has no problem calling for an investigation into the funding of the mosque’s opponents.
Speaking of opponents, did you know that Nancy Pelosi has a Republican challenger? You should investigate him. And fund him.
UPDATE: Walid Shoebat says we should listen to what the Ground Zero Mosque imam says in Arabic.
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Give Nancy A ‘Palomino’, And For CA-8, John Dennis
by Smitty
The Vodkapundit provides your title imagery, as the 111th Congress heads into the slumpstretch, and we get down to the grunt work of electing a Congress that isn’t a pile of road apples.
Birch, at Right-O-Sphere, points to a crucial race: John Dennis, going against the woman who, in a sense, represents all of us:
It’s amazing how fresh and prophetic Kristen Wiig’s November 2006 cold open on SNL is, when compared to the Wicked Witch of the West’s track record. Fred Armisen’s “human ashtray” character symbolizes the gimpy feeling so many of the Country Class have experienced since Nancy’s ascension.
Birch’s reasoning for feeling Bullish on Dennis is impeccable:
- Nancy Pelosi still doesn’t have a campaign staff.
- Nancy Pelosi is disliked even in her own district.
- John Dennis has $820K and is self-financed.
- The Tea Party movement dictates anti-incumbency.
- Republican voters are more likely to vote this year than Democrats.
- John Dennis is reaching out to the art and the LBGT community of San Francisco.
- Google Trends shows John Dennis being a very popular search in the San Francisco area.
- Let’s pull another Scott Brown.
- John Dennis loves the free market.
- John Dennis is against federal funding of abortion.
PJTV had a fine feature on the fellow, too.
I, for one, salute the courage of a John Dennis, who is willing to invest his time in what can only be called a tough race. Supporting my own local candidate today at a farmer’s market, it simply isn’t a pleasure to have people not simply reject a friendly, positive greeting, but do it in a way that says “You really are scum to question your betters.”
Forget Nancy, and the palomino she rode in on.
Update: No Sheeples ‘Lanche!