Posted on 07/14/2014 9:11:56 AM PDT by Din Maker
BARROW, Alaska — When Sen. Mark Begich talks about his role in American politics, he describes himself as a sharp object, sent to Washington to jab at President Obama.
“I’ll be a thorn in his [posterior],” Begich (D-Alaska) said in an interview. “There’s times when I’m a total thorn, you know, and he doesn’t appreciate it.”
Begich, 52, is a first-term senator known for being pro-gun and pro-oil. But he is not actually that well known for anything. In the Senate, Begich is a junior figure, moving through the chamber’s power structure at the speed of a mastodon trapped in a glacier. Over five years, just one of his bills has been passed into law. It renamed a courthouse in Anchorage.
He is one of six sitting Democrats, all running for their political lives, whose losses could hand control of the Senate to the Republicans. The others are Mark Pryor (Ark.), Mary Landrieu (La.), Mark Udall (Colo.), Kay Hagan (N.C.) and John Walsh (Mont.).
Republicans have not yet picked his opponent. The GOP primary is not until Aug. 19, and there are three major candidates running. Even running against a Republican to be named later, Begich does not seem to be pulling ahead. “What Alaska needs again is a fighter in the U.S. Senate, and Mark Begich has not been that fighter,” said Dan Sullivan, a former state attorney general and the apparent front-runner in the GOP primary.
How can Begich win? His answer has two parts.
The first is to emphasize, again and again, that he is a lifelong Alaskan, born and raised in Anchorage. The three Republicans all moved in from “outside,” as Alaskans call the rest of the United States.
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“I’ll be a thorn in his [posterior],” Begich (D-Alaska) said in an interview. “There’s times when I’m a total thorn, you know, and he doesn’t appreciate it.”
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OMG... this dude must have the IQ of a freakin’ foot stool.
What a dipwad.
Alaska, you can do better than this.
At the end of his speech he asked, “What else would you like to hear?” /s
It must be bad if the commies at WaPo are giving him reelction advice.
Years ago, before Alan Simpson turned to the dark side, he was running his first senate race against Gale McGee, the furthest left senator in Wyoming's history. McGee had been born in Wyoming, Simpson in New York. The only reason McGee stayed in office was that he was pretty good at bringing home pork.
Wyoming begin to realize that the pork bribes weren't worth it, so the only card McGee had left to play was the born in Wyoming thing. Simpson cleverly turned it around by asking the voters "Would you rather have a guy born in New York representing Wyoming values? Or a guy born in Wyoming representing New York values?"
If: Democrat
Then: Thorn in the sides of logic, intelligence, and morality.
Dim-bulb-crats are evil...almost as evil as Islam.
:: moving through the chamber’s power structure ::
This EXACTLY why we have a Tea-party.
I cannot, for the life of me, understand why local Tea-party folks aren’t pointing at these media inclusions as part of their strategy.
It is the collusion of the media and “old-guard” politicians that needs to be broken.
When [See! BS!] and other media oulets “foster and cultivates relationships” within the congress, the citizen gets “hosed”.
Since when does Al-Jazeera get an audience with my Senator IN FRONT OF ME????
What a joke.
That’s the position most democrats take during the campaign. After that, they sell their souls to the devil again.
More like a dingleberry in Obama’s butt.
translation of the message...this guy is the reason Harry Reid rules the Senate with an iron fist.
I don’t buy him being a thorn in 0’s side, but put that aside for a moment...
Is he, or will he be a thorn in Reed’s (sicK) side? Not likely!
Right there is a big problem with these United States.
Why should he be retired? What laws, that are not already on the books, do you think should be passed? What bills has he sponsored, that the leftist stooge Harry Reid has in turn tabled?
I would feel properly represented if my Congressthing and Senators spent their entire time in Washington proposing bills to REPEAL current violations of the Constitution. I can name several agencies or departments that should be abolished entirely.
The idea that legislators must propose new laws, new departments, new agencies, new pieces of our private lives in which to meddle is one of the reasons we have a bloated, unconstitutional, meddlesome, and unsupportably expensive government.
“Votes 97% with Obama.
What a joke.”
That’s a mighty small and limp thorn...a RINO could do better.
One of the most infuriating things about American politics is how frequently this shameless approach works.
"Only in Alaska!"
That's all you have to know?
I love this argument.
Libtards are using it to distance themselves from Obama, by saying they will be a “thorn” in his side...
But the Republican in the race can easily say he will distance himself even further than a pretend thorn.
Its a losing argument for them, if that’s all they have to run on.
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