Posted on 11/02/2014 10:37:09 AM PST by Kaslin
This started as a top ten list.
Let's face it, with President Obama's awful approval ratings and the unfortunate consequences of Obamacare felt like a sting around the country, Democrats were already vulnerable in this year's midterm elections. These gaffes certainly won't help. Let's take a look at some of the worst mistakes Dems have made on the campaign trail so far:
1.) That awful/insensitive/shameful and now infamous ad from the Wendy Davis (D-TX) gubernatorial campaign.
2.) Those colorful campaign memos from Michelle Nunn’s (D-GA) campaign, in which her own campaign referred to her as a “lightweight.”
3.) Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) saying he was “brain dead" after he couldn't answer a simple, softball question.
4.) Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) struggling to offer an answer as to how the Obama administration has handled the Ebola crisis. MSNBC even mocked him for that interview.
5.) Alison Lundergan Grimes (D-Ky.) refusing to say if she voted for President Obama.
6.) Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu (D) claiming Louisiana is full of sexists and racists.
7.) Sen. Mark Begich (D-AK) trying to use Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski in his campaign ad, then ignoring her request to take her picture out of the ad, claiming she simply didn’t like of the picture. (Those easily offended women’s rights groups have yet to confront him about it.)
8.) Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) rudely interrupting her opponent Scott Brown (R) during his final comments at a recent debate. She was booed.
9.) Sen. Begich forgetting that almost anyone can access YouTube and catch him in a lie.
10.) Michelle Obama getting Bruce Braley’s (D-Iowa) name wrong – multiple times.
11.) Landrieu makes another appearance on this list for having to pay back thousands of dollars to her constituents for flights she took to fundraisers or other campaign events that were inappropriately billed to her Senate office.
12.) Martha Coakley (D-MA) getting the current gas tax in Massachusetts very wrong
13.) The revelation that Mary Burke’s (D-WI) family fired her from their family business for “incompetence.”
14.) DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz claiming that President Obama has joined Democrats on the campaign trail, then failing to name even one Senate race for which he's campaigned.
15.) Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) neglecting to show up to the final debate with her GOP challenger Thom Tillis in one of the country's tighest races, giving him a whole hour to state his case uncontested. Hagan's absence even prompted a rant from liberal MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow.
This was quite possibly the quickest/easiest list I’ve ever compiled. I wonder how much it'll grow by Tuesday.
Must have been a real challenge narrowing it down to 15.
I heard Chris Mathews had said that the GOP could pick up as many as 10 Senate seats.
I wonder if he really thinks that, or is setting up the expectations, so that a gain of only 6 seats or so is a victory, because of not losing the 10 Democrats seats predicted????
#1: Obama saying that although he’s not on this ballot, his policies are on the ballot.
Excellent list!
You left out the top two Demonicrat gaffes:
1. Treason
2. Stealing oxygen.
Mary Burke, Dim Dem candidate for Governor of Wisconsin, unable to define plagiarism after she was accused of it regarding her jobs plan.
By the way, she’s a member of the Madison School Board and a graduate of Harvard. You’d think she’d know all about plagiarism.
Braley insulting all Iowa farmers should be on the list.
Wendy Davis at a debate demanding her opponent as AG should ignore the law, one she vote for.
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