GOP To Continue Using Obama To Bash Down-Ticket Dems

[brooklynite]

Source: Talking Points Memo

It looks like the GOP plans to continue its efforts to damage down-ticket Dems by tying them to Barack Obama -- even though this strategy completely failed to defeat the Dem candidate who won a big upset victory in the Mississippi special election yesterday.

On a conference call with reporters today, NRCC chair Tom Cole confirmed that the party will continue using Obama to tar Dem House candidates, in much the way the GOP has historically used figures like Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi to do the same.

The NRCC and the local GOP candidate in Mississippi ran ads tying Travis Childers to Obama and even to Jeremiah Wright, but Childers won yesterday by a comfortable eight-point margin.

But Cole is undaunted by yesterday's results, calling the anti-Obama strategy a "useful tool" for hitting Dems in conservative areas: "I think reminding people that we have a very liberal, and I think very inexperienced Democratic nominee, and that your opponent is likely to be supporting that individual, is interesting."

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Oh, one can only hope...

[Faygo Kid]

1. It's worked brilliantly so far, hasn't it? This is all they got. And Hannity Hate.

And it ain't enough.

[montanacowboy]

2. Haaaaaaaaaaaaa

BECAUSE IT WORKED SO WELL IN MISSISSIPPI!

KEEP IT UP ASSHOLES

[FARAFIELD]

3. PLEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASE KEEP IT UP

I feel like the dog in the Far SIde cartoon. Whispering through the window. "Puuuuuut the Cat out."

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. How very Republican.

Once you form a plan stick with it. No matter how badly it fails. NEVER admit you were wrong!!

[berni_mccoy]

5. BRING. IT. PUKES.

[sasquatch]

6. Its like watching people wave leaves at cannonballs

:rofl:

[stillcool]

7. I hope they use Pat Buchanan...

in their commercials.

[frog92969]

8. Good luck with that

NOT

[mcollier]

9. Excellent strategy!

Carl Rove would be proud...

[neuvocat]

10. Obama is a black man!!! Ooga booga!!!

The GOP is hoping to capitalize on the undercurrent of racism that exists. That's why they're doing this.

[BattyDem]

11. Good!

We can always use a few more seats. :D

[last1standing]

12. It's like an early Christmas gift, isn't it?

I really think the repubs are so demoralized that they just don't know what to do anymore. They're just going to lie down and play dead for 2008 it seems.

[annabanana]

13. lol.. please don't throw me in that briar patch!. . . . n/t

[pinto]

14. The GOP is apparently inable to hear the door slam on that meme.

There's a point where even the most blatant Barnum & Bailey Republican must realize the ruse is over.

And so they go... :kick:

[WheelWalker]

15. Lemmings. On the way. To the sea. So long. nt.

[opihimoimoi]

16. These PUBs make the case for STUBBORNESS...They gonna continue to go NEGATIVE

Is this it?

Thats all they Have?

Nothing Pos?

Only Neg?

And we were taught the Dems are Losers...

But as the World turns...we see the other side of them Pubs...the true side...nekkid and FAT from all the il gained profits...but void of good ideas....

Them Pubs gonna get creamed and reamed come November.

[MrModerate]

17. Don't get complacent . . .

Remember that this is the party that successfully got George Bush (s)elected to the presidency twice despite his manifest unfitness for the office.

They still own the voting machines and the media. And while they're running around like decapitated chickens right now, you can be sure (well maybe not sure, but reasonably confident) that they have an abundance of steely eyed fanatics who refuse to panic and who will bring every gun they've got to November.

Do they have enough fanatics? Will they have enough money? Will their panic crash their machines? Are the American people so sick of them that nothing they can do will save them?

I sure hope all this breaks our way. But we're not there yet and let's not think it's going to be easy.

[H8fascistcons]

18. Well Said....

Brilliant logic....

[BlueManDude]

19. The Dems are actually addressing the concerns of voters while the GOP goes all Lee Atwater...

they really are bankrupt.

[Doctor_J]

20. Let me quote the Commander in Thief

Bring it on!

[Supersedeas]

21. Guilt by Association is all they have left -- will the voters fall for it again