Tsongas’ New Campaign Strategy Revealed: Oogity Boogity Karl Rove Karl Rove Karl Rove Karl Rove

Her campaign failing to catch fire with the everyday voters of the Fifth Congressional District, Niki Tsongas has resorted to boogey man tactics.  She can’t win on her own so she needs to try and scare voters into supporting her.  The new strategy can be summed up in one quick statement:

Oogity Boogity Karl Rove Karl Rove Karl Rove Karl Rove

This is really what her campaign has been boiled down to.  Take into account this Boston Globe article for instance:

Now, with Ogonowski looking unexpectedly strong in the Fifth Congressional District special election, Tsongas is returning fire.

Tsongas’s campaign described Ogonowski yesterday as part of the “extreme right wing” and asserted that he’s “not who he says he is.” In statements from her campaign office, Tsongas accused him of trying to conceal support from Republicans in Washington, including former White House adviser Karl Rove.

But the people of the district aren’t buying it:

Ogonowski is portraying himself as a scrappy, independent underdog. That appealed to some voters yesterday morning at the Four Sisters Owl Diner, a Lowell landmark with omelettes named for local streets and no shortage of political banter.

“His interests are going to be local, and hers will be national,” said Frank King, 64, who runs a Lowell septic business and supports Ogonowski. Jerry Largay, 67, a Lowell retiree, called Ogonowski a “blue-collar worker who can relate to anyone.”

But those at the diner who see Tsongas’s experience as an asset are frustrated by Ogonowski’s persistent message.

Ogonowski “doesn’t know anybody” said Don Giuffrida, 69, of Lowell.

Yup all the other side has is Ogonowski doesn’t know anybody.  That is the qualification for congress now isn’t it.

Even our old friend David King of Harvard University, who if you’ll remember back in the early summer scoffed at Ogonowski’s chances has come around.

“It’s clear Ogonowski’s got the better message,” said David King, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard who chairs an orientation program at the Kennedy School of Government for new members of Congress. He said Tsongas seemed to be running the same campaign Democrats tried in 2006, focus on the president and the Iraq war, but that she should be concentrating more on the district.

“To think of a special election in 2007 as linked to the nationalization of the congressional campaigns in 2006 is, I think, lunacy,” King said. “This race is about the Fifth Congressional District, not the Fifth Regiment in Iraq.”

Remember, when all else fails bring up the boogey man.

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