Posted on 09/08/2010 8:56:06 AM PDT by speciallybland
How bad is it for Democrats in North Carolina? Even Sheriff Andy Taylor is taking a beating in the polls.
Andy Griffith - star of the Andy Griffith Show, a Manteo resident and noted endorser of Democratic causes and candidates - has seen his approval ratings plummet, according to a poll published Tuesday by Raleigh-based Public Policy Polling.
The Democratic pollster found that Griffith's approval rating has fallen 25 points since 2008. Griffith has been a closer for Democrats, an unimpeachable saintly figure who fills his rare political spots with folksy charm and obvious references to his role as a small-town North Carolina sheriff.
In July he cut an ad for the U.S. government promising "good things" to come from the Democratic-backed health care law. The ad prompted five Republican U.S. senators to accuse the Obama administration of using taxpayer money to bolster his policies.
And as the poll suggests, the ad may have tainted the Griffith brand.
"Clearly it's pushback from the president's health care plan," said Brad Crone, a Democratic consultant who is working with legislative candidates. "It's a good time to call up Barney Fife."
Many Americans hate the vile disgusting Health Care Bill with a fiery passion. No one wants their “representatives” to say, “Screw you, I'm not listening to what you have to say.”
It's a real bad idea to associate yourself with this unpopular fecal bill. No wonder Dems that are running for the Nov election try not to mention it while campaigning.
“Health Care, Health Care...hmmmm...To the best of my recollection, I don't believe I've ever heard of such a thing.
Please, please don't look up my voting record!”
~Any Democrat picked at random running for election in NO-vember
Thank YOU for the info. When I was a kid, I thought he WAS Sheriff Andy, but being all grown up now, I know that it is not so...
Regards,
There’s another Mayberry connection. Have you ever noticed that Eric Holder bears a striking resemblance to Howard Sprague?
Mayberry’s dirty little secret is that Aunt Bea baked cocaine into all those pies she made. It messed with all their minds somethin’ awful.
Is that why Opie was appointed as "Pastry Czar" after a period of fact finding in Colombia?
It’s not a coincidence he rode a C-130 on that trip.
I have had suspicions about Floyd the barber as well.
Yeah. He was way too mellow.
Let me get this straight. We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it, to be signed by a president who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke;
What the hell could possibly go wrong?
I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap.
Bob Hope
Okay. I stand corrected.
:)
LOL^^^
Ditto that.
Ive never heard that he resembled his Face In the Crowd character.
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W J Clinton always brought this movie and character to mind when I was ‘forced’ to observe him.
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