Virginia Foxx's goose could be cooked. Paper endorses Dem Billy Kennedy

[BurtWorm]

Digby talks about the race in terms of the Dean strategy vs. the DCCC's:


http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/billy-kennedy-this-one-could-surprise.html

This One Could Surprise People

by digby

The most appealing things about the Dean tenure's 50 state strategy was the idea that you never know what might happen in any campaign so it was best to be prepared and at least nominally support candidates everywhere just in case the brilliant electoral prognosticators in DC might not always know ahead of time who is and isn't "unelectable." (I can't help but think that if these people were so damned good at picking winners, we wouldn't find ourselves on the brink of electoral disaster quite as often as we do.) So, it's been left to the progressive netroots and grassroots to try to give some of these candidates a little support to make up for the fact that the party refuses to even spend a penny to help them out. (In fact, they pretend they've never heard of them when publicly asked about it.)

Aside from the important work of spreading the good word and building movement politics for the long term, sometimes, unexpected things happen. For instance, Blue America candidate Billy Kennedy, who is challenging the intellectually challenged Virginia Foxx in NC-05, may just pull this thing out, despite the fact that the DCCC has behaved as if the loony Republican is impossible to beat. In fact, the major newspaper of the district, the Winston-Salem Journal, which normally endorses Republicans, came out for Kennedy this past week-end and made a very good case for his election:

U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, a Republican from Watauga County, has not achieved any great accomplishments for the residents of the 5th Congressional District, and has angered and embarrassed many with her sometimes wild statements that seem designed to provoke. It’s time for a fresh, progressive voice in the 5th District. We believe that Democrat Billy Kennedy, a Watauga farmer and carpenter who says he’ll work to reverse the high rate of unemployment in the district, is that voice. He’s the best candidate in the Nov. 2 election for the 5th District.

“I’d like to make Congress work,” Kennedy, 52, recently told the Journal. “I believe with the bickering going on, they’re not solving problems.”

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[FSogol]

1. Good news. K & R. n/t

[gratuitous]

2. That would make this whole election cycle worth it

Just to not have to look at Foxx's cross-eyed mug anymore. Dare we hope? How about a little infusion of accucash to the Kennedy campaign, DCCC?

[Hepburn]

3. Great news...

...Foxx is one of the worst RWs...and IMO she is nucking futz!

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. Blackwater gave her tons of money for her district

She is one nasty woman, but her district is very conservative.
I hope she loses.

[classysassy]

5. M,s Fox,another carpetbagger

moved south where most of the voters are a bit dim witted and getting elected is easier,she developed a southern drawl and said the thing the less than bright citizens want to hear and she was selected to go to Washington and do their bidding.

[butterfly77]

6. Good..

[BurtWorm]

7. Howie Klein is on this, too

http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2010/10/yes-billy-kennedy-can-beat-virginia.html