Looks like even long-time Republican incumbents are really feeling the heat. So what should Republicans do? In the case of struggling state Sen. Don Benton, R-Vancouver, the answer is predictable. Just lie.Senate Republicans Thursday accused Democrat David Carrier of violating state campaign finance laws by receiving $40,000 more from the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee over the past two weeks than the law allows his campaign to accept.
But Carrier, who is running to unseat Republican Sen. Don Benton, denied the charge, calling it “a complete lie.”
“What they’re trying to do is create the appearance of inappropriate activity that isn’t there,” he said.
And what exactly was the heinous crime that has the senate Republicans so exorcised?
Chris Gregorich, executive director of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, said the committee’s contributions remain well within the limit.
As of Thursday, he said, the Carrier campaign reported $31,070 in in-kind contributions and $14,000 in cash from the committee, for a total of $45,070.
Gregorich said the committee wrote a $30,000 check to the Carrier campaign on Oct. 12 that would have put the campaign over the legal limit. But he said the check was written in error by the committee’s treasurer and later destroyed.
Pass the smelling salts. Now the GOP Party is complaining about stuff that didn’t actually happen. It stretches credulity to believe that Senate Republicans actually believed their Democratic counterparts would violate contribution limits by $40,000. I mean, wisecracks aside, these are professional campaign operatives on both sides.
Besides, the voters could give a rip, especially right now. Little things like retirement funds and jobs are weighing a wee bit more on people’s minds than manufactured Republican outrage. But Republicans are always the victims, you know. It couldn’t possibly be that Republicans generally have few positive ideas and people are finally seeing through their boilerplate platitudes about taxes.
And with the PDC complaint coming on behalf of a special interest glutton like Benton, the whole kerfuffle is nothing but a last-weekend smear aimed to the GOP Party base. Like we’ve never seen this play before.
If nothing else it was good to see Carrier call them out on their lie. He’s one to watch.
Here’s hoping Carrier gets added to the list of incredibly pleasant surprises come Tuesday.
If you consider, for a moment, the quality of the right wing commenters on this blog it’s not difficult to understand how the Republicans have been such dismal failures at governing. The incoherent arguments. The rambling bigoted nonsense that passes for their religious beliefs. The racism that they don’t have the courage to express explicitly. The unwillingness to accept empirical evidence.
I read that Bush is making a final push to destroy existing consumer and environmental regulations as he leaves. Their de-regulation philosophy is completely discredited by reality but yet they continue the behavior as if it’s been a resounding success. One must wonder if these guys realize that they also need clean air and water to survive.
These guys give me great hope for America. If the Democrats prove only mildly adult they will out-perform previous Republican administrations and the Republicans will be out of power for at least two generations. The
wingnuts will pollute the airways and blogs with their idiocy while they benefit from the
efforts of the adults, but never mind them-for they are fools.
Mr. Cynical, PuddyPud, Marvin, Mark the Racist Redneck Republican, Delbert, etc. You have the floor. Let the idiocy flow.
Goldy–
I notice you failed to acknowledge the illegal campaign contributions Gregoire took from out-of-state PAC’s that she has now returned.
How convenient!!
Hey KLOWNS:
Here is your “reach across the aisle, uniter” Socialist/Marxist in action!:
Report: Journalists From Three Newspapers Booted From Obama’s Plane
Reporters from three newspapers that endorsed John McCain have reportedly been told that they can’t travel aboard Barack Obama’s plane in the final days leading before Election Day.
FOXNews.com
Obama hasn’t even been elected yet and he has set himself up for a rough road BY HIS ACTIONS.
This is really telling about what we can expect from the closed door, orchestrated Obama Administration.
rhp..
You said you wanted folks to give Obama a chance. How can you expect that with actions like this???
Ranching in Montana is such easy work. It allows Cynical the time to post on a Western Washington political blog day in, day out, from morning to night. Yes, ranching is very easy work.
There is no ranch. There are no investments. Cynical lies about everything.
@3 Hey KLOWN AND hypocrite
McCain already banned Joe Klein and Maureen Down from HIS plane and he has plenty of room and Obama doesn’t.
You are such a hypocrite and you spout talking points without ANY knowledge – you have zero credibility.
Quoting Fox News is proof that the idiocy spigot is pegged.
You KLOWNS have been DUPED by Obama!
You must be going out of your alleged minds.
Obama is already “lowering” your stinking vindictive, unreasonable expectations!
I love it.
CHUMPS!!!
@3: If you are really worried about the actions in a campaign and how they relate to a possible presidency – maybe you should look at the excretable campaign being run by McCain.
Full of lies (Palin and the bridge to nowhere) , Obama will raise taxes (he will cut them except for those making over 250K – and you are lying about anything different), Obama is “associating with terrorists” – as Colin Powell said – total BS.
Yup – that tells you what McCain will do as president – lie, be a hypocrit (he said the Bush taxes were not fair and did not vote for them – until he started pandering to the right).
The McCain who can’t campaign on the issues like the economy so he has to bring up fake issues like “socialism”?
Since when is the graduated income tax (used for close to 100 years) socialism? Since right wing nuts and Joe the Republican wingnut say so?
What a sad party and what an intellectually vacant and issues- deprived group of know-nothings – you guys are going down for your cycnical view of the
american voters – you think the scare tactics will work again – but real Americans are wise to your lies and your record of economic disaster.
Which McCain do we believe – the one who repeated 100 times the economy was sound (like Sean (dumbass) Hannity) even into late august? Or the one who proclaimed a crisis, pronounced himself the savior and promptly screwed things up. What an egotistical fool!
you KLOWNS are totally in denial about what is currently transpiring.
Obama has LIED to you KLOWNS about what Hope & Change actually means.
I asked you KLOWNS repeatedly what you expected Obama to actually DO…..remember?
You KLOWNS were fixated on what Obama said to lure you in…and now, SMACK…right in the face.
Obama lied to you…he is lowering your expectations.
Yet you KLOWNS are sooooooo arrogant and in denial, you stick you fingers in your ears & scream so you don’t have to acknowledge you have been duped!!
CHUMPS!
@7:
As usual, no response and no facts – you got nothin’ cynical. How does it feel to continually be a laughingstock? You are pathetic.
cnr–
YOU were the one who repeatedly told us what Obama was going to do to us rich Conservatives. And now….WHAM! The rug is pulled out from under your sorry, vindictive ass.
You are a fool.
Short cynical:
You are fools.
Obama lies.
I have no facts to back up anything I say.
Yawn.
@11
Wham – what wham you sorry fool?
You have nothing. You say nothing. And nothing you say makes any sense.
You are desperate.
Obama this and Obama that…none of it close to true or important. Loser.
cnr–
Check this out CHUMP!…from the London Times.
WHAT HAVE I BEEN TELLING YOU CNR!
Your Messiah has been lying to ya!!
Obama Lays Plans to Kill Expectations After Election Victory
Confident in an Election Day win, the campaign looks to lower supporters’ expectations on concerns their hopes of ‘change’ are unrealistic, a senior aide says
By Tim Reid, The Times of London
You KLOWNS are what is referred to Euphoric Supporters!
HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR! HAR!
All of your rhetoric about what Obama is going to do us is BULLSHIT!
You KLOWNS have been duped!
You are sooooooo anxious to “Win” that your expectations of what “win” actually is has been squashed….before the election!!!
SUCKERS!
Cnr–
You are in total denial.
You never answered when I asked SPECIFICALLY what will Obama do to spread the wealth.
Answer: NOTHING!
Obama’s speeches yesterday totally focused on growing the economic pie….sounds like me!
No mention of tax increases to rich & corporations.
You are a CHUMPED cnr.
You’ve been PUNK’D!!
Cynical’s desperation at this point is comically pathetic.
correctnotright–
I hate to say this, but it appears that asshole Cynical might be right. Obama is singing a disturbingly different tune the past couple of days. And now this article in the London Times. Shit. Oh well.
Mr. Cynical the Washington Times is operated by a bunch of rightwing religious wacko moonies. Same for Fox “News” minus the moonie part.
I second the commenters above who called you a liar and pathetic.
@16 is not the real Steve. Check the IP and you’ll see it’s Mr. Cynical’s. He was doing this shit yesterday too.
Steve @ 16–
I don’t care if you consider me an asshole or not. Just knowing you are starting to see the writing on the wall that you have been PUNK’D by Obama says who the real dumbass is.
@16 I see Cynical’s working his sockpuppets now. Pathetic.
There is no ranch in Montana. There are no investments. Cynical lies about everything.
@17 “wannabe goat fucker”
No, Cynical’s the real thing.
@19 You are insane. And you post lie after pathetic lie.
There is no ranch in Montana. There are no investments. Being a BIAW stooge, Cynical lies about everything.
Hahahaha
that is your evidence cyncial?
hahahahaha
anonymous sources – expectations are too high….the economy is a bust…gee this is really tough stuff (what a Joke).
Yeah – Obama will have a big mess to clean up and it will take a lot of work. so what?
You are so desperate cynical – that you will jump on anything and call it a lie.
In the mean time – you have no credibility.
You are one sorry idiot. I just get tired of having to read all the crap you put up – because obviously, even you don’t believe the lies you put out.
I know you call yourself cynical – but a better name would be “idiot fool mouthpiece of the BIAW”.
Cynical implies that you know the crap you put out is full of lies. Have ever responded to my debunking of most of what you say – NO – cause you can’t.
You have a bunch of sorry rhetoric and claim to not support bush while supporting all his policies – what a hypocrit.
In light of some of the above commentary, some of you will find this photo interesting. This is a blog that analyzes imagery used in politics.
And allows comments too. It’s a thoughtful blog so I am a bit reluctant to let assholes like Cynical know it exists. Of course, unlike Goldy, this guy probably has the balls to 86 the Mr. cynicals.
http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/
I’ve already voted for Obama but am anything but encouraged. There have been plenty of red flags about him. He is a great speaker. But words are words. We are interested in action to close the gap between haves and havenots.
What really opened my eyes wider was seeing Barrack with that pompous Bill Clinton. Clinton made us feel like he really connected with the average person, but didn’t do much in 8 years other than be in the right place at the right time for the dot.com explosion, which turned out to be a bubble just like the real estate bubble Bush took credit for. My guess is Clinton told Barrack a few of the ugly facts of life as has Warren Buffett. Hence the noticeable change in tone.
If Barrack wants to lower expectations he doesn’t have to worry about me. Mine are already lowered. I’m tired of supporting Democrats who are great speakers, but show little action. Obama is better than McCain, but not by much I’m afraid.
@ 23–
I’ve been tempted to erase a few of cynical’s comments, but since he’s charging BIAW $0.25 per comment, I figure it will eat into how much more they can illegally funnel to Rossi.
Plus it’s just so damn funny to watch him change the subject, like some kind of robot. Someone should put together a Mr. Cynical generator.
Jon–
Obviously you yearn for more of the goat-fucking comments by your buttbuddy Steve.
Kind of turns you on, eh Jon??
Your silence on Steve is akin to your appreciation of his considerable skill in that area.
Give it up Cynical..
All that “lowered expectations” crap you’re trying to sell IS FACING REALITY.
And what is that REALITY?
That CHIMPANZEE you voted for twice has DUG A BIG HOLE for this country.
But we all know that reality is lost on you.
YLB–
You are typical of what happens when the cold reality hits your fantasy world. You are in SHOCK and DENIAL.
Your guy Obama will do nothing.
He has PUNK’D you KLOWN!
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Cynical asshole goat fucker-Jon is
rightcorrect! You are funny. With you it is as someone once said- there is no there there.24
It is sad that in most elections, and particularly national elections, I find myself casting a vote against one candidate rather than a vote for the other candidate whom I check on the ballot. I was and am most unhappy over Obama’s support of FISA and telecom immunity. And that issue alone would be enough for me to not support him. He’s nowhere near where I want him to be on the two Bush wars and some other issues. But fuck! McCain and Palin would be so much worse! I’m a flaming lefty. Obama is not. He’s a moderate. But McCain is a war monger and a delusional corporate controlled anti-worker Republican. I live in the real world. Voting for Obama is my only choice.