McConnell’s internal pollster says Mitch and his buddies are screwed
Joe Sonka October 4th, 2008
(crossposted at Barefoot and Progressive)
Normally we only hear from Jan van Lohuizen right after Mitch McConnell has been hit with bad poll numbers. And when we hear him, it’s delightfully optimistic bullshit about how Mitch is wonderful and everyone in Kentucky thinks so too.
But in the Washington Post today, Jan and his Republican insider buddies are VERY off-message. In short: because of the economy, Republicans are screwed:
With the party already struggling to generate enthusiasm for its brand, Republican strategists fear that an outpouring of public anger generated by Congress’s struggle to pass a rescue package for the financial industry may contribute to a disaster at the polls for the GOP in November.
“The crisis has affected the entire ticket,” said Jan van Lohuizen, a Republican consultant who handled the polling for President Bush’s reelection campaign. “The worse the state’s economy, the greater the impact.”
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“If you turn the clock back two or two and half weeks, you could make a plausible argument that if a couple of things go our way we will lose three to four Senate races,” said one Republican strategist. “Now we will lose six to eight.” Polling in most Senate races over the past 14 days has shown a five-point decline for the Republican candidate, the strategist said.
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GOP operatives said the party’s declining fortunes are rooted in a series of events over the past two weeks, including McCain’s decision to suspend his campaign in order to help broker a deal on the rescue plan and Republican opposition that doomed the bill in a House vote on Monday. Those incidents helped reinforce voter impressions that Washington is broken and that Republicans bear the brunt of the blame, the party insiders said.
In the most recent Washington Post-ABC News national poll, more than half of all voters said they were “very concerned” that the failure of the first bailout vote would cause a “severe economic decline.” By a ratio of 2 to 1, they blamed the legislations’ defeat on Republicans.
Neil Newhouse, a partner in the Republican polling firm Public Opinion Strategies, echoed van Lohuizen’s sentiment. “The bailout crisis has had a corrosive effect on the national political environment, and that impacts not just John McCain, but GOP candidates up and down the ticket,” he said.
Festive.
The real question is, where the hell has Jan been this week? I was sure that the McConnell folks were going to trot him out last week with a bogus poll to combat the others’, but he never showed up? Is it because he obviously sees the writing on the wall and doesn’t want to ruin his professional credibility by pretending that Mitch is 12+ points ahead? Does he think that Mitch is going to be out of a job next month and he has to think about his own company’s future, too? Or maybe Mitch is just saving him for the week coming up?
Either way, there is one thing that we do know for sure: Mitch McConnell has no lips.
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The US Labor Department on Friday announced another massive job loss for the US. Put your bills on dimwit US Labor Secretary Elaine Chao’s desk. Bury her desk. Let her have Roger Ailes, Rush Limbaugh, drug addict, and the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth help her open her mail. The job loss is positive proof that the Bush tax cuts don’t work. They can’t possibly keep up with the labor pool available in China and India, common sense and arithmetic. If you couldn’t figure it out eight years ago, you can learn the hard way now. At the end of 8 years, the Bush tax cuts should be creating millions of jobs in the US.
When Elaine Chao leaves office, you can send her your bills via Mitch McConnell. If he loses re-election, he’ll have a one year cooling off period before he can become a lobbyist. With luck, that one year may be changed to ten years, with him having no access to the US Capitol or the Senate and House office buildings.
Years ago mainland China was no threat to Taiwan. Now, thanks to Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao, that has all changed. The United States have exported way too much technology to Communist China. People like Chao and McConnell have brainwashed the people of Taiwan to trade with main land China, a country that wants to absorb Taiwan by any means. McConnell has even convinced many of the uneducated farmers in Kentucky that it is good to trade with Communist China. This has caused the price of oil to skyrocket and the price of Gasoline to soar to close to $4.00 a gallon. If you don’t believe me, let us isolate ourselves from Communist China and wait a few years. Of course un-American Mitch would NEVER let this happen. In 2001 China downed an observation aircraft that belonged to the United States. World Net Daily reported that the Communist sympathizer Elaine Chao may have negotiated the return of the aircraft. In 2001 China was not nearly as advanced as it is today and the economy of Russia was in shambles. We should have negotiated the release of the crew of that aircraft and then retrieved our aircraft from China by what ever means was needed. But I guarantee you that Communist sympathizer Chao and un-American Mitch would never have let this happen. This year the people of Tibet wanted to become a country of their own again as they were before 1949 when they were invaded by China. Communist Mitch McConnell kept advocating trade and aid to their good communist buddies in China rather than providing intelligence and weapons to the good people of Tibet. Make no mistake about it, the economy in Communist China is booming and expanding while the economy of the United States is going in the toilet thanks to Mitch McConnell and his concern for the “developing economies of India and China” rather than the United States. Mitch McConnell swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States and I can find nothing about China or India in our Constitution. I guess that this is a part of Republican “natural law” and forget about the Constitution in the twisted republican viewpoint . This November I would seriously question the loyalties of Mitch McConnell.