We are informed that George W. Bush will be visiting Maine next weekend. He'll be attending a wedding and it would be really surprising if he didn't manage to do some campaigning at the same time. If his handlers are idiots, he'll campaign where he's already lost, in the 1st CD, who's media market includes coastal New Hampshire, who's electoral votes he's also already lost. If his handlers aren't idiots, he'll go to Bangor and try to woo the 2nd CD's uncommitted voters.
This is a god-send for the Anti-Palesky movement. The Bushs are the epitomy of rich-people-from-away who's extravagant lifestyle has driven property values in South and Mid-Coast Maine up, and with them the property tax load. It is the Bush tax cuts that tossed the State budget revenue-side into a shredder, and is leaving gaps on the spending-side. Baldacci and the Legis could be Saints or Sinners and nothing they could do either way would have the slightest effect on these primary causes for the kiss from the crypt that Jarvis and Gann are visiting on Maine by way of Carol Palesky.
If he goes South, he is the problem. Mr. Fiscal Irresponsibility who summers as Mr. Richee Rich.
If he goes North, he is the non-solution. Palesky will benefit the average voter in the 2nd CD as little as the Bush tax cuts did. The Bush tax cut benefits went to the 2% of the super-rich that have summer homes along the coast, mostly around Acadia and in Southern Maine.
Empty hands and really lame excuses either way. Still, he gets an appreciative 2% of the vote, and that and 5 out of 9 SCOTUS votes should get him comfortably re-appointed.
The Kerry Campaign should make some hay on this as well, and Mike Michaud really should raise money out of a visit by the top-of-the-opposite-ticket. Here is a link to his site Michaud for Congress. Please use 42 cents to mark your contribution to Mike via Wampum.
Anyone learning details of the itinerary please drop them here. Good slogans suitable for signs would be nice too. I know some of you follow the RNC sound-bits-de-jour more closely than I do. My best effort is "What results???"
Posted by at July 31, 2004 01:50 PM | TrackBack