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Scott McAdams Campaign Taking on the Aura of the Rebel Alliance (A View from the Left)
Firedog Lake ^ | September 4, 2010 | EdwardTeller

Posted on 09/04/2010 9:40:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

I met briefly with Democratic Party U.S. Senate candidate Scott McAdams last Thursday, in Anchorage. Today, he’ll be out in the Mat-Su Valley, the Alaska heart of the Darth Vaderesque Koch Brothers’ astroturf organization, known as the Tea Party Express. Out here, the day before our late September primary election, dozens of 3/4-ton diesel pickup trucks and Humvees raced around with 4′ X 8′ Jim Miller signs on top. Two of them sported large Confederate flags. One sported a huge Israeli flag, next to a much smaller American one.

Scott will be spending today – Saturday of Labor Day weekend – out in the lair of Sarah Palin’s rise. Inside the unfinished Death Star.

This morning, he’s meeting with the executive committee of the Mat-Su Democrats (a body from which I resigned early in the summer). Then he will be meeting people at the very wet, rainy Alaska Fair. After that, local fundraisers for other candidates.

All this is good. His campaign was sort of taken over at the beginning of this past week by members of Sen. Mark Begich’s staff, a few of whom have taken leaves of absence until Scott’s team is in place. Mark’s staff have gone from vaguely open to me and my blog to fairly hostile as I was the first of the Alaska progressive bloggers to challenge WTF Mark was doing in DC. Soon afterward, Shannyn Moore and The Mudflats started to openly question many of Begich’s actions in the Senate. I’ve been told his staff hold me responsible for that. Others think Begich’s staff hoped to get us alienated, so as not to be vulnerable to being labelled liberal or progressive.

Scott wants to run a campaign aimed at the huge bloc of non-aligned voters here who already prefer him by a substantial 22% margin over Joe The Teabagger Miller. But Scott is far more progressive in his thinking than is Sen. Begich. Though he’s genuinely grateful for the help the Begich staffers and statewide Democratic Party organization is giving his campaign, he doesn’t want to lose his own ability to maneuver by being locked into how they might want him to perform over the next 58 days.

One of my main fears is that the DSCC is going to take over aspects of the public image of McAdams’ campaign the way the DCCC took over issues ads related to Ethan Berkowitz’ AK-AL U.S. House race in 2008. Their on-air ads were so bad, they may have cost Ethan 10,000 votes and the election. Scott’s race against Miller will be very tight.

Scott might be in better hands with progressive on-line fundraising, local guerrilla ads and spontaneous youtubes like this one, than with DC-oriented crap:

(VIDEO AT LINK)


TOPICS: Alaska; Campaign News; Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 2010; democrats; joemiller; scottmcadams
Isn't Shannyn Moore the Lefty blogger who was filing several ethics charges a day against Gov. Palin?
1 posted on 09/04/2010 9:40:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Isn't Shannyn Moore the Lefty blogger who was filing several ethics charges a day against Gov. Palin?

Yes, I believe that's the same pig.

This pantload Teller is (apparently) upset that the rat candidate believes he has to lie through his teeth in order to get elected. But I say, what's new? Most rats (outside of those who represent Democrat parasite nests, aka, "cities", and AIDS-infected toilets like San Fransicko) have to pretend they're conservative, have pride in America, etc., and lie through their teeth in order to get elected, don't they?

I hope Teller doesn't go home and slap his boyfriend around over this. Sheesh.

2 posted on 09/04/2010 9:51:30 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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. . . Out here, the day before our late September primary election, dozens of 3/4-ton diesel pickup trucks and Humvees raced around with 4′ X 8′ Jim Miller signs on top . . .

that's JOE Miller, you pundit wannabe peddler of unreasearched h*r$h!t.

Now git yer sorry butt to JoeMiller.us and inform yourself, slacker!!

Oh, and meet the Miller family:


3 posted on 09/04/2010 9:53:44 PM PDT by skeptoid (The Road to Serfdom is being paved by RINOS)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Clyde5445
Yes, and she's also the source who provided Gross with his anonymous "sources" for his Vanity Fair article and then she got mad at Gross as follows:

HAR!

Mr. Michael Gross,

You just "Sarah Palined" people here.

I'm going through a list doing damage control and telling people I'm so sorry I gave you their contacts and vouched for your professionalism and credibility.

You have neither.

I don't give a rip what you said about me - though it was so completely wrong, and put me in such a completely inaccurate and unfavorable light people are mad on my behalf.

Fine thanks for Alaskan hospitality. I have extended the Alaska Spirit to dozens of journalists and visitors, and I will continue to do so. It's on YOU, not me, as you are the only one who has broken agreements with sources you promised complete anonymity.

I'm sure you're thrilled to be on TV now. Just know, like Sarah, Alaskans paid a price for it. Specifically, a 79-year old woman, with failing health, who spoke to you under anonymity who hopes her adult children will speak to her again.

Shame on you. You're not a writer...you're a climber.

With no respect,

Shannyn Moore


4 posted on 09/04/2010 9:59:40 PM PDT by onyx (If you support Sarah and want on her Ping List, let me know!)
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To: everyone

5 posted on 09/04/2010 10:01:18 PM PDT by onyx (If you support Sarah and want on her Ping List, let me know!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

yep


6 posted on 09/04/2010 10:07:38 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Democrats are more like Jabba the Hutt’s guild complete with weirdos, freaks, aliens and crooks....


7 posted on 09/04/2010 10:13:14 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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This Teller idiot must not have seen any of his candidate’s interviews with the press. They’re so embarrassing, I cringe just reading them.

He makes Jan Brewer’s recent brain fart look like a speech from Lincoln.

Good pick, Sparky.


8 posted on 09/04/2010 11:49:54 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This made me laugh, not a whole lot of people can afford to drive Hummers lately, maybe the H3 version which my son calls the “gaymobile”.

And I have never ever seen anyone flying an Israel flag in Alaska, we have a lot of Gadsden flags, my 1 ton dually has one in the back window.

McAdams will fall very very short, Alaska for the most part is military and very republican, only the wannabe part of Alaska namely Anchorage is democratic and very liberal.

I would pay attention to see how much advertising he can get started as its more than a rumor that the democratic regime will get money from any source to fund its candidates.


9 posted on 09/05/2010 12:00:43 AM PDT by Eye of Unk ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" G.Orwell)
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