Posted on 10/17/2014 9:17:45 AM PDT by C19fan
After attacking President Obama over his handling of the Ebola crisis and the Islamic State terrorist group, businessman and Republican Senate candidate David Perdue turned defensive this week when asked about his record on outsourcing jobs.
“The criticism I’ve gotten over the last few weeks is coming from people who really have no business background and really don’t understand, you know, what it takes to create jobs and create economic value — which is really what this free enterprise system is based on,” Perdue told reporters at a Veterans of Foreign Wars social-hall event.
A local television reporter tried again off camera, prompting Perdue to complain that the news media isn’t giving him a fair shake with its “30-second sound-bite business.”
This isn’t how it was supposed to go for Perdue, 64, who faces Democrat Michelle Nunn, 47, in a Senate race previously considered a lower-tier contest that would almost certainly go to the Republican. Instead, polling now suggests a dead heat — raising the strong possibility of a runoff election in January if neither candidate can get 50 percent of the vote Nov. 4.
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce supported Kingston in the primary, not Perdue, and Perdue made that an issue. Now it is Perdue being attacked for corporate ties.
” This is the guy who was the choice of the GOPe becasue he was supposedly the most electable.”
Electable?
Like McCain?
Like Romney?
Here in Pennsylvania, the Jackass Party seems to have no problem whatsoever with the corporate ties of Tom Wolf, who made himself rich on government contracts and government pension “investments” from his days in Ed Rendell’s administration.
Liberals get away with that hypocrisy because the fifty plus year campaign of Democrats and their liberal allies in the media of painting the GOP as “only for the rich” has been successful. It also helps the bumbling Republican Party has never responded back in kind. I get so tired of people like Dianne Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi playing the class card when they themselves are two of the wealthiest members of congress. Uh, it makes you sick!
Like Rudy Giuliani?
Exactly.
Michelle Nunn’s father Sam is extremely wealthy and continues to make a fortune off his former government service sitting on corporate boards:
http://www.forbes.com/profile/samuel-nunn/
If Perdue can’t overcome this attack, he really doesn’t deserve to be elected to a Senate filled with multimillionaire Democrats.
The real problem in all of these campaigns is the Republican strategy of not standing for anything compelling in the election. When have no core principles and your entire game plan is to run against Obama, you are vulnerable to these kinds of attacks. If you have a platform of positive ideas that provide a compelling alternative (i.e. the 1994 Contract for America) you won’t be put on the defensive by class warfare propaganda. Republicans, like Perdue, are playing a defensive “run out the clock” game prescribed by Karl Rove and other highly paid consultants who are technicians not passionate advocates. We’ll learn in November how passive defense works against committed ideologues.
Well stated, as usual.
I have long believed that Rove gets millions per year from the DNC. If he doesn’t, he is an even bigger idiot than I give him credit for.
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