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December 29, 2010 07:07 PM UTC
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…but I doubt it cost her the primary nomination or even that many Republican votes. The sadder truth is that many probably weren’t that shocked by its insidious message. After all, why wouldn’t Obama be a terrorist sympathizer since he is a secret Muslim (dripping sarcasm)?
Norton’s handlers were apparently hoping to capitalize on misinformation about the Guantanamo issue rather than gunning for “shock and awe.” I’m sure they would have had a field day with the NY mosque controversy. Contrary to what you suggest about Charlie Black’s sensitivities, he was probably the one responsible for the ad. Among his “Muslim clients” was Ahmed Chalabi, who is infamous for feeding the U.S. faulty intelligence before the Iraq War. Black most likely epitomizes the anti-Arab sentiment within the GOP.
The ad and the last few months of her campaign efforts smacked mostly of desperation from a candidate that knew she was losing ground with her own Republican base.
The writing was on the wall after she lost to Buck at caucus. Bringing Penry on board to salvage her campaign was the final nail in the coffin.
Why don’t you just say she eats babies and be done with it
She skins them and wears their scalps as slippers.
funny you should mention him. He promised the US an entire freaking army and the Pentagon bought it. When the US arrived prepped for the invasion a handful of doped up guys on horseback showed up saying they were Chalabis army. I read about this in State of Denial by Bob Woodward.
Needless to say his influence, or lack thereof, in Iraq was actually next to nothing. Chalabi is a joke.
recently. Chalabi really thought he would walk in and take over the government and the country and Bush’s administration was more than ready to let him do it. The lack of planning at the beginning of the war in every single area is simply stunning. I strongly recommend that book. It’s phenomenal.
Shows the tunnel vision of the administration in trusting a crooked source for their information. Charles Glass wrote an excellent article for Harper’s in 2003 about Chalabi as well.
that one is going on my list !
And surprisingly humorous. Rajiv Chandrasekaran lived in Iraq for two years and was the only journalist to live outside the Green Zone. He focuses on the CPA under Paul Bremer and had access to staffers and heads of each of the Iraqi departments (such as Finance) that Bremer attempted to privatize in less than 24 months.
Disastrous from start to finish–ought to be a primer in the DOD and the Pentagon in how not to run a post war operation.
I don’t think the Bush DoD was much interested in running a “good” operation. I think it was more interested in awarding crony contracts.
to turn it into a US style capitalist society.
Chandrasekaran provides stunning accounts of gross ignorance about the region, the placement of 20 something year old Republican operatives to replace seasoned Middle Eastern diplomats in the CPA and the egotistical hubris from Bremer on up to Bush, Cheney and Rumsfield. I doubt many Republicans will be able to read this book since it explodes the last myth they hold dear to that the Bush administration had a fucking clue what they were doing in Iraq.
Sorting through the leftist propaganda, there are two things I agree with:
1. Norton was viewed and shallow/phony by many Republicans, and lacking in conservative credentials
2. Norton might not have beat Bennet either. The lesson of 2010 is that the Democrat Lie Machine is alive and well in Colorado, and remains very effective.
Hardball politics by GOP = GOOD
Hardball politics by Dems = BAD
Nice code of ethics you have, buddy.
were too liberal and clean for you? Ok…
I’m ready to admit ColPols overstates the significance of this ad if you’re willing to admit the GOP continues to shamelessly politicize 9/11.
We’re not saying that this ad is the reason Norton lost by any means–it only had relatively limited online exposure. But it’s a good waypoint for a campaign desperate to prove conservative credentials that were, by that point in the race, for all the reasons we listed, unsalvageable. This was an example of a systemic problem.
tuned into Colorado’s Republican party, she would have known that she was sunk from the very moment that BJWilson threw the weight of his endorsement and support behind Ken Buck.
Just as in the primary Norton almost certainly would not have connected with votersmin the general. And her campaign would have continued to be a clusterfuck.
I think her coremproblem was she didn’t really know why she wanted to be Senator. And secondary, no burning desire to win (due in part to not having a why to drive her).
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