Posted on 11/02/2014 1:23:40 AM PST by Iron Munro
Former President Bill Clinton joined some of the biggest Democratic names in North Carolina to fire up a crowd of supporters here Friday afternoon with a simple message: Get as many people as you can to the polls, or else be prepared for Sen. Kay Hagan’s defeat and a GOP takeover of the Senate.
Clinton — along with former Gov. Jim Hunt, the longest serving governor of the state, and Reps. David Price and G.K. Butterfield — hailed Hagan as the choice for working families, women and minorities. The former president name-checked issues like education, equal pay for women, voting rights, the influx of money in politics and the minimum wage to loud cheers from the crowd of about 1,300 — some dressed in Halloween costumes — at a high school gym in Raleigh.
Calling the race between Hagan and Republican challenger Thom Tillis as the most crucial contest North Carolina has seen in a generation, Democrats warned the crowd with four days left to go that if they didn’t show up — and bring three other people with them, as Hagan challenged — Tillis would go to Washington with a Republican majority and push an “extremist” agenda similar to what Republicans, or the “wrecking crew,” pushed in the state legislature.
“Here we are in the most expensive Senate race in the country, where you are being invited to tell yourselves and to tell the rest of America whether you’re going back to being the state of the future — where we work together and grow together,” Clinton said during his roughly-20-minute-long speech. “Or whether you chose to be a state that goes back to trickle-down economics, where we grow apart and fight like crazy.”
While hitting a litany of issues to excite the Democratic base, Clinton told the crowd not to be fooled by the ads from Tillis and his allies that tie Hagan to President Barack Obama.
“So what is the Republican’s strategy? Well, he doesn’t want talk about the differences they have on the issues, because he knows then you would vote for her and not him,” he said.
Clinton went on to mock Tillis’ record in the state legislature. “It’s pretty hard to say, ‘Vote for me for U.S. Senator I took $500 million away from school teachers.’ … ‘Vote for me for I actually voted to tax college kids meal plan,’” he said.
“He’s trying take to her off the ballot and put the president on it,” Clinton continued. “Isn’t that what’s going on? He knows the president’s having a hard time.”
Before working the ropeline for several minutes, the former president closed by comparing himself to a “retired race horse.”
“I can’t believe I’m still doing this,” he said. “I’m like a retired race horse. My life has nothing to do with politics most of the time — and then an election comes up and somebody come to my barn with a little extra hay and they fatten me up, and then they come in and rub my coat down and take me out to the track and schlep me around. … I’m trying to go around this track for Kay Hagan because I believe in her.”
Hagan, who spoke before Clinton, repeated the Democrats’ usual attacks on Tillis based on his record in the state legislature and went on to slam the outside money pouring into the race. She specifically called out the Koch brothers and GOP operative Karl Rove, whose groups have been airing ads against her. For her part, Hagan has also received millions in air cover from the pro-Democratic group Senate Majority PAC.
“The eyes of the nation are on North Carolina,” Hagan said. “Together, we are going to show our state, and we’re going to show our nation that grassroots efforts can triumph out-of-state billionaires who are trying to buy this seat.”
“I want you to help me send a message,” she added. “I want it to be loud. I want it to be clear, and I want my opponent and his special interest allies to hear. I want David and Charles Koch and Karl Rove to hear this too: North Carolina is not for sale.”
The crowd repeated after her, “North Carolina is not for sale.”
Total spending on the deadlocked race topped $100 million earlier this week. Two polls out Friday — from CNN and Fox News — showed Hagan up by just 2 and 1 points, respectively.
Hagan also wove in the birth of the Clinton’s first grandchild into her stump speech. “I bet Chelsea and Mark had Carolina on their minds when they named their baby girl Charlotte,” she said. “And if the next one is a boy, how do you think Raleigh sounds?”
The surprise addition to the rally was an appearance by former Gov. Jim Hunt, who served in the role for four, nonconsecutive terms. The crowd erupted the second he walked on stage.
Hunt said he was “happy to come out and shout and holler,” but the gravity of the race has been keeping him up at night as he thinks about what else he can do.
“Now folks, this is going to be a really tight election,” he said lowering his voice. “Don’t you think you’ve got it made. Do you know how much Kennedy won by against that evil Dick Nixon? One vote per precinct. This is not a race that’s going to be decided by a lot of votes.”
"Better put some ice on that, Kay."
“Get as many people as you can to the polls, or else be prepared for Sen. Kay Hagan’s defeat and a GOP takeover of the Senate.”
That means their internal polling shows Tillis winning!
The choice is clear if you are one of the remnant that can still think in a linear, logical manner. If you want another thirty million Hispanics to come here and get on the gravy train vote Democratic. If you want condom instruction in the fifth grade vote Democratic. If you want an even greater flood of sexual perversion than the one that is now destroying our humanity vote Democratic. If you want more innocent children raped and murdered vote Democratic. If you want to see Israel destroyed and the Jews finally wiped out vote Democratic. If you want to destroy what is left of true virtuous manhood vote Democratic. If you think it’s about time we taxed the churches and synagogues and confiscated them for government use vote Democratic. If you hate the G-d of the Bible and think he needs to be thrown to the junk bin of history vote Democratic. If you think it is wonderful for a woman to kill her newborn baby by sucking out his brains and throwing him in a garbage bin vote Democratic. If you love the explosion of profanity of all kinds, curse words, filthy sexual slang in our culture and in the mouths of your children vote Democratic. If you think Islam is a great religion of peace, and we dare not so much as utter a whimper when they rape and torture screaming little girls and then cut their heads off vote Democratic. By now you might be saying “That’s outrageous! I know lots of people who vote Democrat and they don’t believe that!” That may be true, but the people who love and want these things Do vote Democrat because they know that their agenda Will be advanced by a Democrat government. Together they dominate the Democrat Party. If you are a decent, honest, hard working, religious, patriotic American they HATE your guts and they want to destroy the world you love. They want bad things to happen to you. They want to rape your children, either physically or spiritually. Don’t let them do it. FIGHT.
I pray that is right! I live in Jacksonville, NC, and have already voted for Tillis, but there is a picture on the front page of the local paper today that shows a line of early voters from yesterday morning. The polls closed at 1:00 pm. Almost every person in the line was black. There is a contested race for county sheriff and I have seen many posters in the yards of African-Americans as well as them holding up signs for the Democratic candidate at the polls. In NC, you can longer vote straight party ticket, so that doesn't necessarily mean that all of them voted for Hagan, too, but the odds are that they did!
I commend you on your use of the word "might".
“Probably not the headline Kay was hoping to see.”.....
I was thinking the same thing when first reading it. Not the best choice of words at all, particularly with Clintons history. Geeeeeeesh how stupid!
On second thought, perhaps the writer doesn’t like Clinton or Hagan. Which ever it is, it WAS effective to say the least
They purposely phrased it that way for the traffic.
Remind all of your liberal acquaintances to come out and vote Tuesday Nov. 11 !
And speaking of turds we have The Big Tent Turd Party! They got Bill! They got Hill! They got B.O.! Oh BOY, do they got B.O., his smell is in every voting booth and on every mail-in ballot this season! They can run, but they can't hide--or escape the foul stench of their cesspool party wafting along strong upon the breeze, or better yet, the winds of change!
What does Bill say to Hillary after sex…”Hi honey, I’ll be home in an hour or two...”
I think they knew exactly what they were doing.
See post 28.
To paraphrase Bill himself:
It depends on what the meaning of "PLUG" is.
I hoped she enjoyed being “plugged”. It all depends on what the meaning of “plugged” is.
The Greatest Story Never Told
Make this go viral in forums and let women know who this Democrat Icon really is:
Bill Clinton’s record of brutality against women, Misogyny
Juanita Broaddrick (AR)- rape
Eileen Wellstone (Oxford) - rape
Elizabeth Ward Gracen - rape - quid pro quo, post incident intimidation
Regina Hopper Blakely - “forced himself on her, biting, bruising her”
Kathleen Willey (WH) - sexual assault, intimidations, threats
Sandra Allen James (DC) - sexual assault
22 Year Old 1972 (Yale) - sexual assault
Kathy Bradshaw (AK) - sexual assault
Cristy Zercher - unwelcomed sexual advance, intimidations
Paula Jones (AR) - unwelcomed sexual advance, exposure, bordering on sexual assault
Carolyn Moffet -unwelcomed sexual advance, exposure, bordering on sexual assault
1974 student at University of Arkansas - unwelcomed physical contact
1978-1980 - seven complaints per Arkansas state troopers
Monica Lewinsky - quid pro quo, post incident character assault
Gennifer Flowers - quid pro quo, post incident character assault
Dolly Kyle Browning - post incident character assault
Sally Perdue - post incident threats
Betty Dalton - rebuffed his advances while married to one of his supporters
LMFBU.....
It’s hilarious. At least the word “Stumping” wasn’t thrown in.
The jokes write themselves
Indeed I wonder how many times?.
“Remind all of your liberal acquaintances to come out and vote Tuesday Nov. 11 !”
Liberals are as rare as hen’s teeth around here, I wouldn’t know who to tell.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.