GOP Kicks Dodd When He's Down

Courant.com ^ | 2/24/06 | Dave Lightman

[pissant]

WASHINGTON -- Chris Dodd Wednesday got a bitter taste of what it's like to be a presidential candidate.

First came the new Quinnipiac University national poll, taken about a month after the Connecticut Democrat declared his candidacy.

He didn't even reach 1 percent.

But the bigger blow came later in the day, when the Republican National Committee unleashed its first big blast of the 2008 campaign.

"Meet Chris Dodd," it trumpeted in an e-mail sent around the country to GOP supporters and party officials. The headline branded him "a New England liberal, past his prime, on an unrealistic vanity run for the White House."

Dodd did get buoyed by one development Wednesday. He spoke to an American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees forum in Carson City, Nev., and won cheers for many of his initiatives. The crowd also liked his renunciation of his 2002 vote to give President Bush broad authority to wage war in Iraq.

[pissant]

Good, kick him once for me too.

[Peach]

The past his prime statement is priceless but will come across as pretty mean by the Oprah cultists.

We lived in CT and Dodd was considered a pig even by Democrats, but he was their pig.

[Terpfen]

If he polled at less than 1%, why in the heck did the GOP even bother to make an ad against the guy?

Morons.

[pissant]

It was an email, not an ad.

[pissant]

He's no Peach. ;o)

[cardinal4]

"Meet Chris Dodd," it trumpeted in an e-mail sent around the country to GOP supporters and party officials. The headline branded him "a New England liberal, past his prime, on an unrealistic vanity run for the White House."

We need to hear more of this from the GOP..

[dynachrome]

"Good, kick him once for me too"
Me, too!

[lesser_satan]

I'm happy to see him get slapped around, but why the hell is the GOP wasting time and money going after a loser/nobody with no chance in hell of getting nominated?

[Peach]

Dodd was one half of the infamous sandwich you may hear about occasionally.

Dodd and T. Kennedy made a "sandwich" out of a waitress. Class acts, huh?

[pissant]

Except we have one of our own running as a NE lib.

[Farmer Dean]

Never miss an opportunity to deride and ridicule a truely rotten scum.It's money well spent.

[pissant]

Ouch!

[DakotaRed]

Although I don't consider Service in either the National Guard or Reserves as anything less than honorable myself, the Democrats do, when it was a Republican that served.

Dan Quayle was accused of avoiding Viet Nam Service by his time in the national Guard.

George W. Bush has been endlessly accused of avoiding Viet Nam and using the Texas Air National Guard to dodge the draft.

Many others have been accused of not serving and some were falsely accused of not serving.

Now, along comes Democrat Christopher Dodd who, checking his own Military Service history, spent from 1969 to 1977 in the Army RESERVES!!!!!!!

To my way of thinking, what they accuse Republicans of should equally apply to them.

Any bets the lamestream media will comment about his lack of time in Viet Nam?

[pissant]

It was an email.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

It's called the demoralizing strategy. You want to take out the wanna-bes first, let them know that they ain't go no chance of winning, which sends a message to the potential front-runners.

[bmwcyle]

1% of nothing is nothing.

[pissant]

I remember that. Gross.

[Rudder]

Not to worry, before he hit the deck a big, blondy waitress slipped on the wet floor, thus sliding abruptly underneath the Senator. Not a real sandwich---more what they call open-face.

[atomicpossum]

The headline branded him "a New England liberal, past his prime, on an unrealistic vanity run for the White House."

Sounds like they just re-used a release about Kerry. :-)

[pissant]

Of course not.