Check out this poll by Suffolk U and 7News in today’s Patriot Ledger. Obviously all of the mud slinging,including this past week’s nefarious attempt by Dems to obtain Brown’s family health records, have been in vain. If you want to win this contest you will have to be positive and put away all the old shibboleths of the left. http://www.patriotledger.com/t…
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david says
you have missed the thread already discussing this very subject.
edgarthearmenian says
of a topic? e.g. Christopher’s “suspicion” that Andy Hiller is a republican. And why the total silence about the low-level dirt searching in the request for the Brown family health records?
david says
Just because you don’t care for the “tone” set by the person who got there first doesn’t excuse your cluttering up the recent post list with an entirely duplicative, largely content-free post. As for the health records thing, if you’re so worried about it, why don’t you write something up instead of complaining that nobody is doing your work for you?
edgarthearmenian says
I am pleased because it has probably pushed even more independent thinkers into his vote column. As far as the receent post list, clutter may be a tame description of some of the leftist babble. đŸ™‚
Actually I tried to do you guys a favor by showing you how to win in 2012:
1) Have a candidate who is positive in that she/he stands for something that will improve the economic lot of state citizens. Running “against” Scott Brown is a losing approach.
2) Choose a candidate who has state-wide appeal. The Capuano boosters here are terribly naive.
3) No doubt, Deval would be the best candidate, but will he take the risk?
david says
I generally agree, with the caveat that I don’t equate “state-wide appeal” with “already being well-known statewide.” Deval is not running, though, so point 3 is moot. Your point #1 is a concise statement why Elizabeth Warren would be so strong, but as of now there’s no indication that she has any intention of jumping in. Ah well.
christopher says
The tone was tame, and alot better than yours often is. The reference to Hiller was a single sentence trying to figure out why this is relevant at all. As for searching through Brown’s health records, this is the first I’m hearing that story.
edgarthearmenian says
christopher says
I’m not a regular reader of the Globe. Most local news for me comes from WCVB.
edgarthearmenian says
lately?” In fact, I read Boston.com everyday, along with BostonHerald.com. TV news I like NECN; their weather forecasters are terrific.
christopher says
…just people who aren’t big fans of his voting record.
scout says
First, this whole “family health records” thing is total nonsense…it was a public records request, with an emphasis on “public,” peoples health records are by definition private. It’s perfectly reasonable to ask for communication between a state senator and an important public agency.
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p>As for the poll results, people are obviously & correctly feeling a lot of sympathy for him because of his recent coming out as a victim of sexual abuse. That doesn’t mean they’ll want to send him back for a full term in a year and a half. If I recall correctly, Jane Swift had favorability in the high 80’s shortly after she gave birth to twins. Time has to pass after such an emotional event or revelation to really tell where things are at in terms of Brown’s political fortune.
peter-porcupine says
GIC says it WAS a fishing expedition, disguised as a public records request, which is why THEY took the unusual step of publicly commenting on the spin given to the story by the DSCC. Usually, they just deny such requests without comment.
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p>Which raises the question – how long have Democrats been requesting health records of opponents under the guise of public records? Have they gotten lucky with an inexperienced clerk, who supplied the HIPPA protected records? What IS the protocol of Democrats to begin the whispering campaign that the candidate has cancer, or the daughter had an abortion – immediate, or wait six weeks after the request? And the ultimate question – what civic use can the personal health records of a politician (and the spouse and children who were included in the request) be put to in a political campaign by a national Democrat organization?
peter-porcupine says
…that all they were looking for was to see if the Senator was enrolled or what kind of premium was paid – perhaps the only non-confidential information the GIC would have – that could be obtained through the state treasurer and payroll office.
sabutai says
Then again, I bet Glenn Beck’s ratings a year ago were awesome. See, I’m a progressive — I’m not afraid to admit that change can happen.
kbusch says
It might be more interesting for you to compile the liberal objections to Brown and offer solid responses. Or it might be interesting to come up with an account as to why Brown appeals to so many.
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p>But instead we have another tired taunt post in the form of reporting on polls.
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p>If you really like that sort of stuff, you must be saddened that Lieberman withdrew and Palin isn’t running because then we liberals could reciprocate with our own taunt posts. What fun we could all have, then, sharing in the taunting!
edgarthearmenian says
Echo at your side. You are seriously going to tell me that Palin and Lieberman have never been taunted on this site?
kbusch says
No, I’m not going to tell you that nor did I tell you that.
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p>And by the way, I give Steven J. Gulitti a very hard time for writing posts that consist of nothing but derision.
edgarthearmenian says
Taffy-Brodesser Akner: “When you live, say, on a coast or in a very blue state, you grow accustomed to being surrounded by people who believe like you do. You get to thinking that the only people who would dare contradict you are ignoramuses. . . .
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p>I think having a Republican friend is making me a better liberal. We need friends who differ from us. It’s easy to watch Republican extremism and think, “Wow, they’re crazy.” But when someone is sitting face to face with us, when someone we admire and respect is telling us they believe differently, it is at this fine point that we find nuance, and we begin to understand exactly how we got to this point in history. We lose something critical when we surround ourselves with people who agree with us all the time. We lose out on the wisdom of seeing the other side.”
And, as you well know, I am not even a republican.
kbusch says
I’m criticizing you for lack of content.
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p>I’m not criticizing you for disagreement.
edgarthearmenian says
you have been doing lately, somehow content rich.
kbusch says
Good bye
amberpaw says
For me, it is as simple as my continuing support for the New Deal programs my own parents fought for – that Brown does not support.
lasthorseman says
But what I do hate is the social engineering done by lamestream prop-corpo-fascist media. Scott was an engineered “surprise” unseating of Ted’s seat in this “peoples republic of Cambridge” Mike Dukakis bluest of blue states. Then to have this hope of the Tea Party whossify himself by proclaiming sexual abuse as a child. I mean that is just about as socially engineered as a Peace Prize for expansion of the Bush PNAC wars of error and Islam as the Russian Cold War replacement enemy on top of the Bernie Madoff Carbon Trading Globalist Bank of Ponzi scamming fame or mandatory unicorn flu shots and nine Chinese guys living in the coal miners company barracks making high tech widgets for the military-complex our kids are too stupid to make anymore.
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p>Oh, did I leave out the news vacuum of radioactive stuff coming from Japan. The 22 and above percent unemployment rate. The by design five bucks a gallon gas. My having to unplug 96.9 talk radio in the absence of the mildly emerging Jay Severin and this station’s reversion to, how do I say it social engineering of Nazified concepts on designer new and previously unconcievable steroids.