Russ Feingold's last stand

Politico ^ | 10/31/2010 | Ben Smith

[speciallybland]

Russ Feingold has spent 18 years on the fringes of the Senate Democratic Caucus and one very hard year here in his home state, running the opposite of this year’s standard-issue Democratic campaign.

But Feingold appears on the brink of going down in a national tide that’s blind to distinction. Infuriatingly to the Wisconsin Democrat, he’s been painted not as a leftist but as, of all things, a Washington insider. He’s been forced to defend a claim to independence that he feels is self-evident – “A guy did his doctorate at Princeton on this,” he says indignantly – against an opponent who likes to ask, what kind of a maverick would vote for this year’s health care overhaul?

The irony is biting: While other Democrats ran away from health care, Feingold ran toward it and rallied a progressive base that adores him. But no matter, he’s still losing, down in every public poll and struggling in pretty much the same way embattled Democrats around the country are — as symbols of the status quo and of the unpopular health care legislation. And while Feingold was dragged to the table on health care — he was the last holdout on the public option — he gets some of his loudest applause when he brags that he’s the “only senator in the Senate” who will say that he’s “proud of my vote.”

Feingold calls public opposition to health care legislation the result of “an intentional effort to destroy the Obama presidency,” and he’s convinced it can’t last. The law is “going to look pretty damn good in two years,” Feingold told a sympathetic roundtable of a dozen women Friday morning.

“Some of us have to be the infantrymen on the front line, so that’s my fate,” he said.

[AliVeritas]

I remember when Feingold couldn’t go two seconds without saying this or that was unconstitutional.

Yet you heard nothing as the socialists ran roughshod across the constitution.

[GailA]

Here is one more ‘safe’ seat in jeopardy.

9th Congressional District race growing tighter
Bergmann a tougher fight than Cohen anticipated

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2618152/postsBarack

[Mortrey]

Please, those of you who Twitter or are on Facebook, spread this around!

Reporting Voter Fraud

The Republican Party has set up a National Hotline, which will be staffed with Attorneys to handle polling issues as well as possible voter fraud or intimidation.
1 - 888 - 775 - 8117. IF you even SUSPECT this is happening, PLEASE call for their free advice.

http://www.resistnet.com/

[goat granny]

I think more people know him from his Mccain/fiengold assault on free speech....idiot. Took the SC 10 years to completely overturn it..

[bjorn14]

“I still remember Feingold’s moronic commercials during his first run in 1992.”

Yes, because they were ripoffs from his blood brother Paul Wellstone.

[Lurker]

In a rational country Feingold would have long ago done a dance at the end of a rope.