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The Democratic Governors Association Spent $800,000.00 Attacking Barack Obama

Doofuses.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  July 15th, 2010 at 04:30 PM  | 

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I believe that the topical response to this would be “You’re doing it wrong.”

Major Dem donors who wrote checks to the Democratic Governors Association funded a below-the-radar campaign that attacked Pres. Obama and other Dem all-stars, all in hopes of knocking off a strong GOP challenger.

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Iowans for Responsible Government is a 527 group founded by Rob Tully, the former state Dem Party chairman. Reports filed with the Internal Revenue Service this morning show the group raised $782K and spent $767K in the second quarter. That money came entirely from the DGA, in 3 contributions in May and June.

…And that money was spent trying – and failing – to get rid of Terry Branstad in the primary by claiming that he was a liberal Obama supporter.  If it had worked, it might have revived Chet Culver’s collapsing campaign; as it stands, it’s over three quarters of a million dollars of Democratic money piled on the ground and set on fire.   Branstad can now point to pretty much any criticism that he’s not conservative enough and plausibly claim that it’s just more Democratic smear-mongering.  He’s already started.  I imagine that Reps. Bruce Bailey and Leonard Boswell aren’t too happy about this, either: both need top-ticket support this cycle if they want to survive.

All in all, one wonders if the funds might have been better spent supporting White, Sheehan, Patrick, Brown, Quinn, Goddard, O’Malley, Strickland… actually, at this point it’d be easier to find a Democratic gubernatorial nominee who isn’t in trouble right now.

And, given these kinds of stupid antics, I guess that there’s a reason for that.

Moe Lane

PS: Add insult to injury: contribute to the RGA.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • tngal

    they have sucky leaders. Ok. that’s certainly one strategy. Not a winning one, but a strategy nonetheless. Then again, we say the same thing about their leaders and we haven’t charged them a dime.

    Ah well, less money to spend in other races.

  • rdelbov

    this the lowest type of political behavior.

    The democrats spent money attacking a republican because he is “Obama” like. This is similar to the Teachers union fronting a phony pro-republican group in Alabama.

    is this what campaign reform has come down to?

    The democratic party which -from Watergate on-has carried the mantle of “Campaign reform” has debased itself. No morals-no scruples-no ethics.

    In 2010 its 2 for 2 on the democrat side. Have you no shame democratic party?

  • ktsub

    They also sent Bill White a cool million, to up his fundraising. Over 25% of Bill White’s money came from Washington, somewhere of 95% of Rick Perry’s from in Texas.

    Volunteers for Rick Perry, sign up at http://www.texasgop.org/volunteer.asp

  • ktsub

    They also sent Bill White a cool million, to up his fundraising. Over 25% of Bill White’s money came from Washington, somewhere of 95% of Rick Perry’s from in Texas.

    Volunteers for Rick Perry, sign up at http://www.texasgop.org/volunteer.asp

  • Richard Mullins

    It would be good for all of us. I wished that they spent money faster more often than this.

  • edniceville

    For far too many years we have allowed “the other” party to misuse and therefore desensitize us to the proper term for them. They are members of the d-e-m-o-c-r-a-t party. They are not members of the Democratic Party, and as we have seen this past year, there is actually NOTHING democratic about them or how they work. When we speak of them Dem is a correct term. Democratic is a process. One which they don’t seem to be very fond of, I might add. It is the Democrat Governor’s Association. It is the Democrat Party. It is Democrat Rep. Bozo. Let’s get back to the proper use of the word, and maybe the kids will actually learn the difference betwee democracy and the Democrat Party.

    “People of Integrity expect to be believed…when they aren’t, they let time prove them right.”

  • leehazel

    There is nothing democratic about the Democrat Party or its operatives or its agenda.
    There hasn’t been for decades. But, with the help of deliberate editing and careless speech and writing the Democrats have been able to claim the Democratic label as their own.
    Pay Attention, this is what Political Correctness (PC) is all about. Control the language and you control thought.

  • postanalog

    I appreciate that clarification.I intend to never call it (the party) democratic again.

  • theancientmariner

    Read your sig, dude — you’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. You can certainly express the opinion that “Democratic Party” is an inaccurate label, but it is nevertheless the proper name of the party, and has been for most of two centuries (and was part of the party’s name going back to the days of Jefferson).

  • Jack_Savage

    We’re calling them the Democrat Party from now on. Get used to it.

    Anything else you want to whine about while the country is going bankrupt and headed into a double dip recession because of the double dip idiots in the White House and Congress, or is that it for now?

  • JadedByPolitics

    of course you are entitled to your own opinion but not your own FACTS!

  • theancientmariner

    Whining? Give me a break. Call the Dems whatever you want — but claiming that their party is “misusing” the “proper term” for their own party is factually false and therefore rhetorically lame. If you haven’t figured out by now that we can’t afford to use factually false rhetoric against the Dems — heck, just look at Gov. Palin if you need the reminder that we get pilloried by the establishment for using factually *true* rhetoric, if it’s effective — then I think you have an overly rosy view of the media landscape.

    Bottom line, we need to be the party of facts; asserting things which are obviously and provably factually false will get us nowhere.

  • Jack_Savage

    If “Democrat” makes them mad, then “Democrat” it is. I am sure we can find some study or half-ass academic to support our position – maybe one of those climate change guys can help us out…

  • texsizzle

    “… (and was part of the party?s name going back to the days of Jefferson).” Part of their lies — the first president to be elected as a Democratic was Andrew Jackson: when the old Republican Party refused to nominate him, he formed his own party. All before him back to Thomas Jefferson called themselves Republicans.

    My use of Democratic as a noun was intentional. It annoys the Democratics just as does referring to the Democrat Party. I first heard this usage on Rush’s show.