Dem Money Spent To Bash Obama, Pelosi

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: National Journal Hotine

Major Dem donors who wrote checks to the Democratic Governors Association funded a below-the-radar campaign that attacked Pres. Obama and other Dem all-stars, all in hopes of knocking off a strong GOP challenger.

"Liberal Terry Branstad would make Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi proud," reads one mailer, sent by a shadow group called Iowans for Responsible Government. "When it comes to health care, Terry Branstad sounds a lot like Barack Obama," reads another.

The mailer attacked Branstad, who won the IA GOP primary last month. Branstad, a former 4-term governor, faced a much more conservative contender, '06 LG nominee Bob Vander Plaats, in the GOP primary; Branstad won by about 10 points, a smaller margin than earlier polls had predicted.

Iowans for Responsible Government is a 527 group founded by Rob Tully, the former state Dem Party chairman. Reports filed with the Internal Revenue Service this morning show the group raised $782K and spent $767K in the second quarter. That money came entirely from the DGA, in 3 contributions in May and June.

Read more: http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/07/dem_money_spent.php

[aquart]

1. Sigh.

[florida08]

2. good Lord

[flpoljunkie]

3. If they want to spend their money to get a weaker challenger for the Dem candidate, it's fine by me.

Remember, both state and federal redistricting is coming next year.

[KingFlorez]

4. Political chess

Not really a big deal.

[Iowa]

5. So here we have "Dems" reinforcing the notion that a liberal ideology is a scary, bad thing...

... and helping to push the country further to the right. Furthermore, it's telling that Democratic party leaders are able to argue the right-wing viewpoint so effortlessly. Anyone who genuinely believes in progressive ideals would choke on their own vomit before being able to spew such right-wing bullshit.