Worst Presser this cycle
Carville still gets gigs.
Adam Cote is the only Democratic candidate with the experience in Iraq necessary to keep our battleground district in Democratic hands and lead Congress to a solution on the issue.
Restated, only a guy with a penis, the necessary qualification for a Combat Arms assignment, and then only one dumb enough to have volunteered for the Romance with Colonial Cordite, chasing non-existant WMDs rather than do his tours facing the former, now re-arming Russian Federation, or nuclear-capable North Korea, can beat one of this cycle's sacrificial Republicans we can't actually name off the tops of our heads. Charlie Summers and Dean Scontras.
Adam served in both Bosnia and Iraq and knows that a peaceful outcome in Iraq will require a political, rather than military, solution that separates the warring factions throughout the country, much like the Dayton Peace Accords in Bosnia.
Restated, the rest of the candidates, most of whom we know personally (Chellie, Mark, Michael, Jill and even (urk!) Ethan) don't know that peace in Iraq, a country of 20 million with the third highest average literacy and education levels in the Middle East, after Israel and Lebanon, can't, let alone shouldn't, be obtained by force by 300,000 armed foreigners, half of whom are mercenaries, with a logistical tail that streaches half way around the world.
Adam has the leadership experience to win in 2008 and to help Congress move forward with positive solutions to the situation in Iraq and to the problems facing all Americans.
Restated, prior campaign experience, winning and losing, Maine legislative districts and state-wide, is not as important as ordering around a platoon from Maine's 133rd Engineer Battalion, who were "repurposed", like the crews from Pease AFB, to gun truck and transport truck duty on runs up and down Main Supply Route Tampa, with little more than ballistic glass and hobo armor, and the threat of being on charges like the 343rd Quartermaster Company if they blinked at the dumbest bit of "leadership".
In Chris Miller's primary challenge to incumbent John Baldacci, we messaged Dems that the primary did matter -- that Chris would order the Maine Guard (and violence and social promotion happy morons like Cote) out of Iraq. Cote has the converse problem -- to convince Dems that the general election that won't matter should determine their choice in the primary.
The full idiocy is in the extended area. But the full import of "war to liberate women" is that (a) it doesn't work "over there", and (b) it just means we get a crop of shoot'em upers of the brown skinned in the banana republics, the next-gen of the VFW crowd, cluttering up retail politics "over here", and driving out women who just may not think the fundamental security interests of one third of North Americans is well defined by doing high-tech drive-by shoot-ups south of Mexico or east of the Azores.
by: Mainers for Adam
Fri Jul 20, 2007 at 09:17:50 AM EDT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Portland, ME — In a recent survey, the research and polling organization Democracy Corps identified Maine's First Congressional District as one of the “seats most likely to be in play in 2008." Democracy Corps, led by Democratic strategists James Carville and Stan Greenberg, is an independent, non-profit organization devoted to protecting government accountability.
Carville and Greenberg explain that battleground districts hinge on the issue of Iraq, and that Democrats will need strong leaders on the issue in order to win. "Make no mistake, Iraq is central to the changing battlefield," they declare. "Some conclude, wrongly, [that Democrats should] step back from Iraq and focus on other issues." Instead, Democracy Corps concludes that "Democrats should remain on the offensive with bursts of engagement on Iraq," noting that "the Iraq debate and engagement has helped Democrats, particularly in the suburban Republican districts"
Adam Cote is the only Democratic candidate with the experience in Iraq necessary to keep our battleground district in Democratic hands and lead Congress to a solution on the issue. Adam served in both Bosnia and Iraq and knows that a peaceful outcome in Iraq will require a political, rather than military, solution that separates the warring factions throughout the country, much like the Dayton Peace Accords in Bosnia. Adam has the leadership experience to win in 2008 and to help Congress move forward with positive solutions to the situation in Iraq and to the problems facing all Americans.
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I got to listen to Adam, Chellie, Jill, Mike, - Ethan couldn't make it and Mark wasn't in the crawl yet - a month or so ago at the Cumberland County Dems meeting in Yarmouth. Afterwards I wrote Mike to ask him if he really believed what he was saying.
I was talking with Lu Bauer last night about her experience discussing "Limits to Growth" with Ethan. I bet the story would have been exactly the same with any of the candidates - and doubly so with the incumbent. They don't get limits. America is unlimited, they think. Morning in America - all the Democrats have been Reaganized. But we are past all limits and our continued growth is costing us all - here in Maine, here in US, here on the planet - more than we gain. Though the very few well-off - the political class - does continue to gain at everyone elses expense.
Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa: they are all about limits and our need for resources because there is not enough to go around. But if Adam, Chellie, Ethan, Jill, Mark, Mike and Tom don't understand limits, then what will they propose when there is no gas for the Subaru Outback? Liberalism (free markets, rising tide, prosperity) has run out of gas. We can't finesse distribution and scale any more and leave them up to the "market". Market can deal with allocation, but not distribution or scale. It's not Morning in America; it's sunset. Time to get real and put our house in order: community gardens, public health, interurban rail, cut the grid.
The newbie crop of Democrats don't get what the current crop of ruling Republicans understand perfectly.
CD1 needs a socialist-green candidate. But then what would she do when elected? Dinner with Dennis?
Posted by: Chris Miller | July 26, 2007 10:26 PM