GOP Senate candidate Scott Brown and his supporters are firing back at Democratic senators for accusing him of being a "far-right" politician backed by "right-wing radicals" by virtue of his ties to the conservative tea party movement.More at the link.
Brown, with the support of the tea party groups and others, is posing a stiff challenge to Democrat Martha Coakley in the race for the U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts formerly held by the late Ted Kennedy. Polls show him closing in on Coakley, long the frontrunner, with just four days to go until the special election, and the latest survey shows him leading by 4 points.
With the race tightening, national Democratic heavyweights have stepped into the picture and are lobbing harsh accusations at Brown's support network.
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., claimed in an e-mail that "swift boaters" were trying to sink Coakley, a reference to the ads that targeted him in the 2004 presidential campaign. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called Brown a "far-right tea-bagger" in an e-mail, using a term that also can refer to a sexual act. Then on Friday, Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., wrote in a fundraising e-mail that Coakley was "being attacked by tea partiers and right-wing radicals."
Levi Russell, a spokesman for the Brown-supporting Tea Party Express, said the rhetoric is a "sign of desperation" from Coakley's backers.
"It's funny -- if your views differ at all with the Democratic establishment, then you're obviously a far-right extremist," he said. "None of that messaging is addressing Scott Brown on the validity of his views. It goes straight to name-calling."
Russell noted that Brown, a state senator, did not come out of the tea party movement, though he is supported by it. Russell said a Brown victory would still count as a "win" for the tea party groups.
And of course, it's typical and makes no sense, especially considering this: "Scott Brown is a more liberal Republican than Dede Scozzafava" (via Memeorandum).
Desperate Dems, you think?
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7 comments:
'Scuse me. I am old and addled and confused.
I thought "radicals" were liberals-leftists-revolutionaries and "reactionaries" were the rightests and such.
Does anybody have a copy of the memo they can send me--I missed it.
Or threw it out with the junk mail.
It's a catch-all smear term I guess, but you are correct from the political science perspective.
Isn't it odd that the radicals use the term "radicals" as a term of disgrace?
What's up with that?
Heh. This can't be "random". the secret word is "lewar" that looks like "le war".
Now I will have an earworm of the music from "Les Miserables".
The Democrats are obviously desperate to win this race Professor Douglas but if Brown is indeed more liberal (and thus one would assume, more of a RINO) than Scozzafava, why are you not excoriating him with the same fervor you did her?
I sense some hypocrisy within the supposed ideology of yourself and your fellow tea partiers. If you could explain this seeming reversal of your previous stand I'm sure others besides myself would appreciate it as well.
No hypocrisy at all, Rick. See, 'Time out from "Stalinism"'.
Keep trying, though. You lefties are getting hammered, and you're jonesing for anything to discredit conservatives, who've been right all along about the disaster of this administration and Congress.
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