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Club For Growth Airing New Ad In Key Senate Race, Attacking S-CHIP
Everybody's favorite right-wing pressure group is getting involved in a key Senate race, in which the Democrats stand a very good chance of picking up an open Republican seat.
The Club For Growth is wading into the already nasty GOP Senate primary in New Mexico, launching a $200,000 ad buy against Rep. Heather Wilson for supporting the S-CHIP bill:
Considering the S-CHIP bill has been popular with the public at large, the GOP has a bit of a conundrum here: If they nominate Wilson's more conservative primary opponent, Rep. Steve Pearce, they could have a weaker candidate against Democratic Rep. Tom Udall. On the other hand, Wilson first has to make it past the party's activist base that votes more heavily in the primaries.
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I'm' trying to figure out which I prefer most. These wackos taking out this nasty fuck for us first (Wilson) or watching Udall wipe the floor with her smug face and the winning with a little less effort.
I really wanted a DEM to take her out.
Hmm. Decisions. Decisions.
To much excitement already this fall. Let's let them do this one for us and the Udall can ride the Obama wave to an easier victory.
May 9, 2008 11:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Uh, S-CHIP was for CHILDREN. It's rather convenient how they left that part out.
May 9, 2008 11:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'll be honest. Heather Wilson is a nasty political infighter. As confident as I am that the state will move further blue this fall, I'd rather have Ms. Wilson completely out of the picture. That other guy might be more "conservative", but Heather Wilson is one of those Bushies with no morals or scruples of any kind who needs to kept far away from a position of power like the Senate.
May 9, 2008 11:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have asked this several dozen times before . . .
Just why, in all farging hell, are Domenici and Wilson not in fucking jail yet?
May 10, 2008 12:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
S-Chip was even popular with a lot of Republicans. This seems like a really foolish issue to tackle. It's for children. There was huge public support for this. I say, let them have at it, it will backfire.
May 10, 2008 1:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm currently living in New Mexico and I actually think Pearce would be the stronger candidate against Udall. Of course, I think Udall will most likely win, but I think because he's not as "tainted" and because he has a base in the southern part of the state, Pearce would be a more formidable opponent than Wilson.
May 10, 2008 5:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yesss, bring up SCHIP for us, thank you! =)
May 10, 2008 7:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
Anyone ever wonder if Club for Growth isn't some nefarious Democratic plot?
That sound you hear is me giggling with joy this weekend. I actually feel like breaking into Roger and Hammerstein songs :-) Ain't politics grand?
May 10, 2008 8:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, how delicious! I just love it when they start to eat their own....
May 10, 2008 8:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
Club For Growth is responsible for taking down the independent, moderate wing of the Republican Party, such as Congressman Joe Schwarz in the 2006 primary (he lost to doofus Tim Walberg, who won the general election in a squeaker) and more recently Wayne Gilchrist of Maryland. Before we Democrats take pleasure in seeing moderate Republicans lose primaries to radical ones, be careful not to wish for what we ask for.
May 10, 2008 10:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, but CFG's overall strategy is predicated on being able to dominate the narrative. If the Republican Party is weaned of all moderates AND the Democratic Party is able to hit them on it, describe them as radicals, then they become cornered.
I'm not saying we'll get 1965 numbers (68 in the Senate...sigh), but let their market fundamentalists grab hold of their Party. If we can prevent them from pretending to be reasonable in that debate, we win.
That's why we're taking back the narrative, slowly but surely, from the lazy cowards who currently pass for journalists.
May 10, 2008 2:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, but CFG's overall strategy is predicated on being able to dominate the narrative. If the Republican Party is weaned of all moderates AND the Democratic Party is able to hit them on it, describe them as radicals, then they become cornered.
I'm not saying we'll get 1965 numbers (68 in the Senate...sigh), but let their market fundamentalists grab hold of their Party. If we can prevent them from pretending to be reasonable in that debate, we win.
That's why we're taking back the narrative, slowly but surely, from the lazy cowards who currently pass for journalists.
May 10, 2008 2:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Funny. Heather (President Clinton's marital infidelity brought tears to her eyes; Mark Foley's abuse of teenage boys? Not so much) Wilson getting slammed for SCHIP?
I'd say she has a lot of baggage, and would represent a weaker opponent in the fall, so I'm hoping that she survives the primary fight.
Either way, though, it is entertaining to watch.
May 10, 2008 1:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just why, in all farging hell, are Domenici and Wilson not in fucking jail yet?
Posted by Richard L. Adlof
Here in NM, Pajama Pete is regarded not as a partisan hack/Regime mouthpiece or a shill for big NUKE (which he unquestionably is), but as the guy who just about defined teh Murkin dream: son of immigrant grocers, he got into local politics in Albuquerque, eventyually as de facto Mayor--then, when the Chicano folks got embarrassed by Joe Montoya during Watergate and deserted him to mainly stay home, he got into the Senate, as the first GOPuke New Mexico Senator since the Depression.
The hagiographizing has already begun. They' erect a fuukin shrine to him at Kirtland and Sandia, whose reliable whore he always was...
May 10, 2008 3:00 PM | Reply | Permalink