Politics > Politics-USA > GOP candidate sez: ``Oh, you're not going to use that to tie me to Bush, are you?''
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"Harry Hope" |
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18 Aug 2006 08:24:38 AM |
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GOP candidate sez: ``Oh, you're not going to use that to tie me to Bush, are you?'' |
From Bloomberg, 8/18/06:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=a7lhL9dSC2fM&refer=home
Bush Loyalist Kennedy Plays Down Ties in Fight for Senate Seat
(Bloomberg) --
A reporter recently observed to Representative Mark Kennedy, the
Republican candidate for a Minnesota Senate seat, that his St. Paul
headquarters had housed George W. Bush's 2004 campaign.
``Oh, you're not going to use that to tie me to Bush, are you?''
Kennedy said.
Kennedy's 2006 survival strategy has him running away from the
president he once embraced.
He rarely appears with Bush, whose approval rating dropped to 33
percent in an Associated Press-Ipsos poll taken last week.
There's hardly a mention of the president in Kennedy's television
commercials or on his Web site;
his ads depict him as an independent amid a sea of partisanship.
``Some people may try to personify this as being about Bush,'' Kennedy
said in an interview en route to a campaign stop in Ramsey, Minnesota.
``But the last time I checked, he's not on the ballot.''
Not so long ago, Kennedy, 48, reveled in his presidential connections.
A TV ad from his 2002 House re-election campaign opened with images of
Kennedy and Bush walking in the Rose Garden, with the president
listening as the congressman spoke.
``I've stood with President Bush in the war on terrorism,'' Kennedy
said on the soundtrack.
Kennedy was an unlikely victor in 2000, carried into Congress on
Bush's coattails.
The president won his district by 40,000 votes;
Kennedy wound up edging a Democratic House incumbent by a mere 155
votes.
In Washington, he has been a reliable White House ally.
Reports on voting records compiled by Congressional Quarterly show
that Kennedy voted with Bush at least 92 percent of the time every
year from 2001 to 2005.
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b...b...b...but ain't Georgie the Republicans' Great Leader? No?
Goodness, when did that change?
Harry
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| Title: Re: GOP candidate sez: ``Oh, you're not going to use that to tie me to Bush, are you?'' |
18 Aug 2006 09:25:25 AM |
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Harry Hope wrote:
From Bloomberg, 8/18/06:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=a7lhL9dSC2fM&refer=home
Bush Loyalist Kennedy Plays Down Ties in Fight for Senate Seat
[snip]
A TV ad from his 2002 House re-election campaign opened with images of
Kennedy and Bush walking in the Rose Garden, with the president
listening as the congressman spoke.
[snip]
Seems like a savy opponent would just start rerunning that
commercial.
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| User: "Dan Kimmel" |
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| Title: Re: GOP candidate sez: ``Oh, you're not going to use that to tie me to Bush, are you?'' |
18 Aug 2006 11:01:41 AM |
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<oconnell@slr.orl.lmco.com> wrote in message
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Harry Hope wrote:
From Bloomberg, 8/18/06:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=a7lhL9dSC2fM&refer=home
Bush Loyalist Kennedy Plays Down Ties in Fight for Senate Seat
[snip]
A TV ad from his 2002 House re-election campaign opened with images of
Kennedy and Bush walking in the Rose Garden, with the president
listening as the congressman spoke.
[snip]
Seems like a savy opponent would just start rerunning that
commercial.
Indeed, Democrats should be pointing out that these newly "independent
Republicans" are just playing games for the election campaign, and will go
back to being rubber stamping toadies if returned to office.
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