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Baker’s ‘woman’ problem – Joan Vennochi

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Boston Globe’s Joan Vennochi is right on point in her Sunday column- Charlie Baker has a “woman problem.”Baker is not connecting to women who are the most consistent voters and that could make the difference in the November election.

Vennnochi points out how inept Baker and his staff are in reaching women. Baker appears to place women back in the 1950’s with his recent fund raising event called: “Wine,Women and Jewels” which sounds like a mid 1950’s movie with Doris Day and Rock Hudson.

Beyond that Charlie Baker’s alleged zeal comes with “an angry edge…and his eyes get that Jonathan Papelbon glare,frankly it’s a little unsettling” writes Vennochi.

Joan Vennochi hits on the major visual and visceral difference between Baker and sitting Governor Deval Patrick and it is probably beyond any Republicrat media guru to fix because it reveals the true personality deficit of Charlie Baker. “That is Baker’s biggest problem. While he fumes, his rival oozes compassion for a family circle that is wider than his own.”

Joan Vennochi is right on point. Like most corporatist bean counters Charlie Baker has a personality deficit which women voters pick up  on their voting radar. Women vote; women don’t like to be dissed and marginalized as Charlie Baker has done on numerous occasions and their votes will defeat Charlie Baker in November.

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    • It is what pollster are discovering – including Charlie’s – why do you think he is having “Women for Baker” events.

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      p>The Tea Party Movement is real – really the fruit of the Koch Brother’s multi-million dollar tree.  

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      p>We may in fact lose, JohnD, because the economy is terrible. Any decent pollster will show you the correlation between the unemployment rate and presidential approval.  

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      p>We won’t know for a few years if Obama’s response to the econ meltdown was too much or too little (I think too little) – but we can clearly see that with no stimulus – we’d be at 11% plus unemployment.  McCain’s economist will agree with that.

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      p>I don’t think Charlie is toast; I think it will be a tough battle to the end, but his campaign has been terrible.  

      • …but we can clearly see that with no stimulus – we’d be at 11% plus unemployment.

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        p>Obviously spending close to a $1 TRILLION dollars is going to put some people back to work (or “save” jobs) even if it was just the workers who cut all the checks. I believe when people are critical of the Stimulus Bill, it’s because of the horrible inefficiency of the money that was burned/flushed spent. Obama had a press conference this morning about building roads and highways… which should have happened 18 months ago, not today.

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        p>So please stop framing this question into “no stimulus would have meant a Great Depression” and instead try to imagine “other ways” to spend $1 TRILLION dollars that would have resulted in real jobs and not the “make work” jobs we got out of it.

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        p>BTW, I see this type of framing on many subjects where people are critical of something and people reply with the complete absence of it would be terrible. The Healthcare debate is a great example since detracors and protestors of the Healthcare bill were for he most part in favor of healthcare reform but not the way Obama and the Democrats did it. Currently the Republicans want to repeal and replace the current law but Democrats are only trumpeting the “repeal” part. Disingenuous to say the least.

            • …want to put back all the popular parts, which are also the most signficant, than claim credit.  The move to repeal Obamacare has been exposed as disingenuous.

        • that Governor Patrick’s approach to the stimulus money was to spend it so as to create jobs that would stick around for a long time instead of just fixing potholes, even though that sometimes took a bit longer and resulted in his being criticized for not spending the money fast enough.  So I assume he’s got your vote, then.  đŸ˜‰

        • I’m sure you know that the spending component was just over $300 billion — the $800B (not $1T) includes the 1/3 which was tax cuts and the 1/3 which was state and individual aid (often to prevent the laying off of cops, firefighters, and teachers).  You’ll note that we’re down to about $300 billion used for “work” — the other $500B was spent on tax cuts and on jobs we already thought were a good idea as a society.

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          p>Within this $300B, we spent (rounded to $1B increments):
          * $57B on transportation
          * $66B on labor, health, and ed
          * $98B on energy and environment
          * $16B on ag and rural development
          * $16B on defense
          * $18B on commerce, justice, and science
          * $45B on fed and state gov’t (mostly state budget stabilization)

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          p>So, I ask you: of the $300B (NOT $1T), which projects were “make work”?  Which were inefficient?  Which projects were bad?  Are you simply repeating the narrative put forth by conservatives, or do you have any actual examples?  Hell, give us an anecdote, never mind the data.

  2. The mocked event was organized by a woman, and attended by women.  I did not go myself, but it was some kind of Sarah Coventry event with the profit going to the campaign instead of the hostess.  It was not a campaign event, but a supporter organized event.

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    p>Unless Vennocchi has a problem with women trying to organize events to support a candiate…

    • There is “just something about” Charlie that doesn’t ring true with women and their radar is warning them not to buy into the “Charlie Talk” that so many men they know seem to be taken by…

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      p>I have heard so many women say “there is just something about him that turns me off to him”…what is that just something? A little to smurky? a little to high pitched? a little too condescending? a little too untruthful?…but there sure is a little too something…you know the old expression: “You can always tell a Harvard man, you just can’t tell him much.”  Maybe that’s his problem.

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      p>He was on Dan Rea (who adores him) last night. A caller asked him why he was not promoting the fact that he is supportive of the GLTB community, named Tisei as a running mate and supports gay marriage…it was obvious that Charlie did not want to answer/get into the question…so he launched instead into his tv commercial about people wanting to talk about jobs…Rea did not call him on the fact that he didn’t answer the question (because Dan Rae is tooting for the GOP ticket, can’t get enough of Baker, Brown,Polito, etal)…

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      p>Notice how carefully Charlie parsed his answer on the Cahill accusation…Charlie carefully stated “My campaign had no WRITTEN CONTACT with those people who worked for Cahill”…He needed that “WRITEN” cover word to make it true…you know the old saying: “Never write what you can say, never say what you can wink!”  Charlie likes to say he is NOT a politician…but now we know he is the worst kind of politician…the lying kind.

      • From Old Spice:

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        Vennnochi points out how inept Baker and his staff are in reaching women. Baker appears to place women back in the 1950’s with his recent fund raising event called: “Wine,Women and Jewels” which sounds like a mid 1950’s movie with Doris Day and Rock Hudson.

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        p>I’m glad you agree that the fundraising was grass roots and he has no problem with women raising money for him.  Now, you can tell Old Spice and Vennocchi, too.

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        p>And I challange you to name the politician that DOESN’T have a ‘Women for X’ group/event.  Alog with Democrats/Republicans, Veterans, Dog Lovers, etc.  BTW – I’ve ‘heard women say’ that Deval is unctuous, condescending, evasive, slogan-driven, just glosses over instead of carefully ASNWERING a question…

      • the mid 60’s Extreme Right Wing Youth group – YAF’er – Young Americans For Freedom. They were part of the Goldwater ’64 Youth Group goose stepping off the cliff. So, don’t be surprised that the now senior citizen Dan Ray is fauning over Charlie Baker. Rea is almost orgasmic in his drooling after Charlie.

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