Sorry to have made too much sense for a liberal to process.

Here, I will try to communicate on a level you will understand: Government without end, amen.

Mr. Rove’s comments were given some credence last night on one of the MSNBC programs on in the background as I was working on something else. The commentator suggested that Mr. Rove had access to over 60 daily polls, and could well be in a position to see things as to individual races that national polls would miss. He (commentator) also said this access to the private polling was due to the money advantage of the GOP, as the Dems had decided to utilize their funds for GOTV, bypassing expensive polls.

While the commentator’s comments on the dollar advantage and the use of the same for polling makes some sense to me, is Karl the only one who gets to see the results of them? Surely, if “the math” is as supportive as he says, shouldn’t he share this with the candidates, sparing us (the public) from the negative ads?

My two cents, FWIW.

Campaign tactics veer toward smearNegative ads get positively surreal

The result has been a carnival of ugly, especially on the GOP side, where operatives are trying to counter what polls show is a hostile political environment by casting opponents as fatally flawed characters. The National Republican Campaign Committee is spending more than 90 percent of its advertising budget on negative ads, according to GOP operatives, and the rest of the party seems to be following suit. A few examples of the “character issues” taking center stage two weeks before Election Day:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15435421/

Ohio GOP Smears Al Franken In Press Release With Doctored Photo, Fabricated Quote

http://www.netscape.com/viewstory/2006/10/26/gop-smears-al-franken-with-doctored-photo/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2F2006%2F10%2F26%2Ffranken-ohio-photo%2F&frame=true

It’s medication time at the home.

Thank you,

The Nursing Staff

Last time the Independents all went with Todd; Kinard ran an ineffectual campaign. Add that to a generally good year for the GOP and no “top spot” for the Democrats and Todd had an easy run.

This year – Foley etc nationally, Boeing having largely abandoned Wichita, Sebelius and Morrison running strong. Add a strong campaign and Tankerless goes down.

So, last time Todd could afford to debate. This year he knows he cannot.

Voted early today in Ellsworth county. The new voting machine there takes a standard ballot and marks it for you. Yes, you do use a touchscreen. The only thing the system replaces is a pencil. Then you put it in the ballot box like you always did. What progress.

I think an optical scanner does count the ballots; about 70 a minute, according to a courthouse employee. 372 people in the county voted before I did.

opensecrets.org

which posts congressmen’s Federal Election Commission campaign funding data. Tiarht’s largest single campaign donor is Koch Industries. BUT, after this, the biggest donations are all from out-of-state entities. See

http://opensecrets.org/races/contrib.asp?ID=KS04&cycle=2006&special=N

Tiarht gets more money from PACs than individual contributors. Nearly all of his PAC contributions are out-of-state.

Why is this? In the Big Game, there are a lot of congressmen who are “cheap buys” for big corporate interests. Many of these are NOT interested in small federal government, but rather they want large to huge government contracts, and federally-subsidized contracts, ranging from Iraq reconstruction to voting machines. They need water carriers. Tiahrt arguably isn’t a talented statesman, he’s arguably a bought-and-paid-for House vote for Kansas-irrelevant “corporate welfare”. If he exercised independent judgment, do you think he’d keep receiving these out-of-state PAC dollars?

Of course, Tiahrt is himself from out-of-state. Is he a cheap carpetbagger? I think you may find out when he leaves office. Does he return to Sedgwick County, or does he take his family to D.C. or do they retire to a Sunbelt state? I just don’t think he views himself as a Kansan, even an adopted son. It’s too bad that Garth McGuinn didn’t take advantage of his Kansas nativity.

It’s also pathetic that the local media didn’t demand debates. Those of you watching CSPAN can see that the democratic-republican process of facing one’s opponent in public debate is alive and well in much of the country. That it isn’t happening here is really sad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._House_election,_2004

One thing I have noticed is how good a job they do making the pictures look very sinister – Kline, Morrison, Brown. All three look real ugly in the pictures as presented.

My suggestion on the companion thread was that I would love to see BOTH AG candidates tell me why I should vote for them – not why the other guy is a jerk.

It’s more about TT’s weak record on damn near everything. He came into Congress on the coat tails of Newt’s Contract with America. Which he and the Republicans quickly abandoned for a “Contract with Special Interests and Corporations.” You cannot name one thing that TT has taken a leadership role on — he has been a sheep to DeLay and the now betrayed right wing Christian conservatives. He was thrown a bone by his party by making him akin to the assistant to the assistant to the Majority Whip.

Mc Ginn may be new, but has to be better than the do nothing Congress, both parties(Our energy policy is what? Our immigration policy is what?) that are waging war on the middle class — and those of the middle class that have been responsible for making America what it once was. GM is not the far left liberal you think or want to portray him as — he is a moderate – scary type for both the far left or far right.

Kansas would be better off in the coming Democratic Congress with Democrat McGinn than with a do nothing Republican far right winger fraud of a christian conservative.

Take that –

Elections of someone means that people safeguarding our law has to choose a party and take stances on issues which is contraindicated for the view of law from a non-partisan way.

How is it that we can’t find anyone with integrity, honesty and common sense? Is there no one who is willing to take the high road?

Of course not. Read the open thread comments and see just how sad and mean some people can be.

http://www.daretwocare.us/press.html