MoveOn, NARAL Have a Message For The Denver Post

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1. Ugh. Come on people, all you're doing is reminding people that the Post endorsed Gardner. Literally, MoveOn can NEVER make a smart strategic decision.

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   1. Nope. Together with the almost four to one letters trashing the Post endorsement, which collectively, along with this ad, pretty much revisit all of Gardner's votes against good legislation, stands against good policy and in support of horrible legislation and pure hissy fit obstruction, this reminds people that Gardner is the last pol on the planet to be taken seriously as an independent thinker just raring to get to work to move fresh policy forward in the Senate, despite the Denver Post's craven endorsement. 

      It reminds people, after a long campaign focusing too narrowly on choice and abortion, of all the other bad votes Gardner has cast in every policy arena, on every issue.It reminds people how Gardner has stood firmly for no compromise, ni passage of anything that if Obama or Dems support it, even if that means shutting down the government and getting nothing fo the American people but a headache for their trouble. 

      Hat's off to NARAL for having the sense it often fails to exhibit ( I'm no big fan of the tone young NARAL ops and volunteers often take that makes it sound like pro-choicers think abortions are just great and everyone should want to have one. The overwhelming majority of us think no such thing) to run an ad that focuses on these other important issues.

      And hats off to all the letter writers and to Senator Bennet for, between them all, reminding everyone of these and so many others issues. It is indeed, not all about abortion. It's about everything.

      Since the Udall campaign has done such a lousy job, until about the last fifteen minutes, of reminding people of the totality of why Gardner is wrong for Colorado and the Post apparently, ahem, forgot that it disagreed with Gardner on everything, ads like this are now very much needed and this is a good one.

      Lots of people still haven't filled out their ballots. A few of us old precinct hands just did another GOTV distribution of our County Dem voters guides to Dems who have not yet voted. And the GOTV effort, via phone and door to door, will continue until the deadline. Ads like this still help in that effort which counts right up until the last day as never before. Dems and their supporters shouldn't stop running ads like this in print, online, on TV, with signs, with bumper stickers, at rallies. It's all good.

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      1. Agreed Blue Cat – if it were just this one add calling out the Post, it might, might, not be a good use of resources. But it is not. Gary Hart called the Post's endorsement of Gardner the worst he had seen of a major newspaper in his political life. And, MoveOn also has a petition going asking the Post to recant its endorsement – I've seen it popping up on Facebook.

         This is a "thing" – ie, the Post has made itself a laughing stock, and this is becoming the story, not the actual merits of the endorsement. 

         Had Hart and MoveOn not done what they did, then people might have just seen the endorsement as legitimate – it is not. And now they have major people/orgs calling them out for it. 

         And yes, this is a "rolling" vote – people are casting notes now via the mail, and will be for the next two weeks, so this type of ad can have an impact for the next two weeks. 

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      2. And aoplogies. The letters were close to 3 to 1, not 4 to 1 against. The letters in support of the editorial comprise around 27%, the remainder against and then there was also Bennet's very good piece.

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      3. /rec button

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2. The funny part is not only is MoveOn reminding everybody that the reliably Dem newspaper rejected Udall, the paid a rather large sum of money to do it.

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   1. And it's an effective message.

      And will result in a guaranteed Udall victory.

      Women will be voting en-masse for Udall, and since Gardner has pissed off every other demographics except for old white men, and that's declining, very rapidly. 39% at best, total vote at the end of November 4th.

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   2. "Reliably Dem"?  Since when?  Do you ever stop lying or is it something you wake up thinking about?  "How can I lie today?  Oh I know I'll ignore the facts and pretend that this is some huge new development that the Denver Conservative Post is suddenly endorsing conservative politicians because they are so cooperative and willing to engage in collaborative compromise to move the country forward."

      You fucking liar.  The corporate media and Dean Singleton sniff John Boehners asshole before deciding what to print but you being the slimy lying dick that you are continue to pretend that conservatives are "victims" of the media.  What a silly asshole to think anyone around here believes your lies.

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3. Thanks Karen for doing it.  It had to be said.  Alas, I believe all those reasonable positions which the Post took are things of the past.  The endorsement of Gardner is just the first step in to right-wing oblivion for the Post.

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4. "First step"? If you think this is the Post's first step in that direction you haven't been paying attention.

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   1. Hiring Vincent Carroll from the defunk right wing Rocky Mountain News was an early indication that the same bankrupt ideology that drove RMN into the ground was going to resurface at the Post and Carroll has lived down to his right wing extremism.

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