I really don't like Nancy Johnson
Tue Oct 24, 2006 at 07:03:40 PM PDT
Plain and simple I just don't like her. She bothers me to the core more then any other congresswomen. Perhaps it is because she was the first Republican congresswomen I met in my life time. Perhaps it was because I beat her spokesperson back in 2004, when it was the `it' thing to support the Iraq War and Bush was on his way to getting elected (
diary outlining the short debate, and if you can send a little love to those candidates mentioned on the page please do so).
Her positions are annoying and her claim of the middle ground is false. This is a race where we can kill two birds with one stone, elect a Democrat, Chris Murphy to the House and Ned Lamont to the Senate, and take down two Lieberman Republicans. Nancy Johnson has said (for political gain and Lieberman's endorsement) that she would vote for Lieberman in the general election. More reason to vote Lieberman out, he is endorsing a Republican.
This is a race we should win and will win if there is a Democratic rout, and even if it isn't a 50 seat rout we should win this one anyway
Some background onto why I really just dislike her, my normally very liberal grandparents raised money for her during the 2004 election cycle (they moved to you'll never guess it, Mark Fowly's old district following Bush's election, they don't get to vote for Johnson but they will support Tim Mahoney) She got them to drink the cool-aid and that really annoyed me beyond all words.
I have already summarized Murphy in the aforementioned diary but just to give an update there was a debate in where Murphy showed his way with words.
( From http://www.newstimeslive.com/... )
"It's going to cost $1.2 trillion. That's three times the original cost estimate,'' Murphy said. "Are we putting profits before people?''
In reply, Johnson said the Medicare drug plan is working now and will only work better through the years. Its dependence on private insurers creates a market-based system that will continually give seniors new plans, including ones that will close the gap in coverage known as the "doughnut hole.''
"If you don't like it, change plans in November,'' she said.
In the best retort of the night, Murphy responded quickly.
"Nancy says, 'Change drug plans in November,''' Murphy said. "I say, 'Change the Congress in November.'''
This is a race where the ground game is going to win it, just like in the rest of Connecticut. This is also a race where Krugman's One Letter Politics comes into play. Even if Johnson is a moderate, it doesn't matter if the GOP holds on to a one seat majority, they hold the chairmanships, they control the gavels. Many people in the district are realizing this and are swinging to Murphy.
Murphy on the web at http://www.murphyforcongress.org/
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