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The Inexorable McMahon Job-Creation Ad.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 8th, 2010 at 11:00 AM  | 

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If you missed Dick Blumenthal’s incredibly clueless answer to Linda McMahon’s simple question “How do you create a job?” at the last debate, don’t worry: the McMahon campaign has had boiled it down to a television ad.

And in the process they managed to do what was I would have thought would be the impossible; they managed to cram two minutes of idiocy into a thirty second clip. Including Blumenthal’s rictus grin; as God is my witness, when I watched that originally I fully expected Dick to end his ‘response’ with the happy declaration that he had just done a Number Two in his pants.

TELL ME THAT THIS WAS AN UNREASONABLE EXPECTATION.

I DARE YOU.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: Linda McMahon for Senate.

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  • pdawk

    I wish that they could have gotten Linda’s response to the same question just to show the comparison. She understands business and he understands politics. The problem we have in this country is we send to many lawyers to Washington to handle the financial business of the United States.

  • ehosterman

    you now owe me a new monitor and keyboard. But the I guess I should know better than to read your posts while drinking coffee. Well played.

  • ehosterman

    you now owe me a new monitor and keyboard. But the I guess I should know better than to read your posts while drinking coffee. Well played.

  • http://itsaboutfreedom.proboards.com Conservative Phantom

    This is a very unique election season we are in and at this point anything is possible.

  • eburke
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  • RedBeard

    Pdawk is right. We send platoons of lawyers to Congress to work on financial matters. That’s like sending Al Capone to rewrite the income tax code.

  • jpalm

    Many liberals will feel he makes sense to them..

  • earlgrey

    Every chance we get to show the difference between political leeches and real wrold producers we need to seize it. She needs to follow-up so we can see that difference.

  • RedBeard

    Libs will “feel” he’s right while conservatives will factually conclude that he is an economic illiterate.

  • msctex

    . . .then smiled and asked the question again.

  • earlgrey

    once THEY think they have made it. It is like talking to a child. You can’t let up just because you have just made your point. You may think you have been clear, but the child is going to look for anyway to disagree with you or twist your words to fit what they want.

  • reggie1

    I actually called the campaign Wednesday and suggested they make a video interlacing Dick’s aimless response with the infamous Miss Teen USA contestant from SC who butchered Mario Lopez’ question. Wish I had the know-how, it would go viral.

  • http://charlemagne-the-hammer.blogspot.com/ DerKrieger

    the preacher in Poltergeist II.

  • earlgrey
  • jenniferjmilleresq

    this embarrassment of a man is actually ahead by 13% or whatever it is in the latest polls? What kind of people live in Connecticut?!

  • acasilaco

    Great ad!

    Just a reminder for those of you down on my profession (lawyers): Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, Ken Buck, and Joe Miller are all lawyers.

    The problem with Blumenthal is not his professional credentials, it’s his ideology.

  • tomato

    Pardon my over analysis. Blumenthal is lucky he comes across as the proverbial “deer lost in headlights”. Never mind the body language, listen to his words if you can cringe it.

    How to create a job? Like a broken record, he answered it many times; reliance on government, government, government. Policies, taxes, and bureaucrats.

  • Shayelyn

    and my monitor will never be the same. After I dried the tears and cleaned up, I read it again and the reaction was the same. Thank you, Moe.

  • Composer_Man

    1. Did you notice his predominant focus on “preserving” or “maintaining” jobs? I don’t know if it was a conscious decision or not, but even the ideas he does get out seem to relate to existing jobs. The question, sir, was how do you create a job – i.e., a new job.

    2. I’m sure (I hope) he can’t be as buffoonish as he comes across in this clip, but he really sounds like a complete dunce. With jobs/economy being the number 1 focus in everybody’s mind for pretty much the last 2 years, doesn’t it seem odd that he wouldn’t have thought about this a little more in depth?

    I guess like RedBeard, I’m always amazed that there are people in elected office who seem to be of such sub-standard intelligence.

  • indyjohn

    Years ago, a satirical book was published that made the following claim: in any organization, an individual rises to the level of his incompetence. How curious that satire has become fact. In the Democrat Party, every politician I can think of has advanced to that station in which he displays maximum incompetence and from which he can cause maximum destruction. And the Democrats have designed their selection process to produce this very result!
    Laurence J. Peter has been dead for 20 years now. I think that I can hear his laughter from the great beyond.

  • indyjohn

    Self-loathing masochists, apparently.

  • johnt

    in his fishnet underwear.

  • ericc

    that sinks him to the bottom of the sea.

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