Not Even On Their Side
The O'Malley campaign is going negative again. Just more of the same sacre(d) tactics, which reveal how worried they truly are about November.
And once again O'Malley tries to paint himself as a governor on "our side." Really?
The truth is O'Malley isn't a governor that is on his own Democratic constituencies' side.
Ask Democratic lawmaker and illegal immigrant advocate Ana Sol Gutierrez if O'Malley was on her side when he welched on a deal for two-tiered drivers licences in return for her slots vote in 2007?
Or, ask environmental advocates how they feel about O'Malley transfering hundreds of millions of dollars out of Project Open Space, (see page A-7) thereby breaking his campaign promise not to raid the fund.
And that's just his natural political allies.
Ask your average BG&E customer how they feel about O'Malley's broken promise to roll back rate increases?
How do they feel about O'Malley's policies that only make energy more expensive and hamper economic growth?
Martin O'Malley is on one side alone: his own.
The man with no principles has no qualms deceiving others to think he stands with them only to jump to the other side or abandon promises when it suits his political purpose.
6 comments:
If you're writing to make yourself and your right wing allies feel better, by all means go ahead.
But if you think this concern trolling pap is going to sow dissent among Democratic voters, you really are wasting your breath. If you think Ana Sol Gutierrez or environmental advocates or anyone else is listening to you, you're deluded. Republicans will rally around Ehrlich and Democrats will rally around O'Malley (particularly here in Montgomery County).
Here's a little secret, though: there's more of us than there are of you. Lots more. And whatever else Martin O'Malley is, he ain't Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.
Just thought you'd want to know.
Jonathan Shurberg
I've always found it really useful to understand what a term means before using it. Like "concern trolling". YMMV and it obviously does.
Just for the record, you can't "concern troll" your own website.
Jonathan,
Isn't there an ambulance you should be chasing?
Streiff +1. It's not concern trolling because it isn't trolling; concern trolling is what jsmdlawyer did, actually (offering condescending unsolicited advice to an opponent on his/her/its forum.) Have done it myself many times.
I think Mr. Shurberg is largely correct, but O'Malley has given a lot of high income voters reasons to be irritated with him, even voters south of University Boulevard in the sapphire-blue districts. Oh O'Malley will still win the county and will crush in 18 and 20 in relative terms, but if turnout is light in MoCo Ehrlich won't need to come too close to be competitive state-wide. Jessamy cannot help her frenemy O'Malley in Baltimore or vice-versa now. Van Hollen's not going to the mat for O'Malley and neither will Gutierrez exert effort to get the turnout high for his guitarness.
MoCo doesn't have a meaningful general election to get excited about other than the gubernatorial one, and Ehrlich has pretty good support in Kemp Mill, in the less urbanized precincts to the north including Bartlett's district. Kane isn't a rock star but she will be good for mining what can be mined out of MoCo.
I support O'Malley due to simple disagreements with Ehrlich on policy priorities, and will probably vote for him, but O'Malley is not loved. Ehrlich is well-loved in the red parts of Maryland and frankly I think he can win it.
Thanks, Bruce. I don't disagree with the points he made though I think the dissatisfaction with O'Malley and the general electoral climate will make this election much closer than one would have predicted a year ago.
While I'd be among the first to admit to being an ass on occasion -- on the internet-- I think being one in your opening comment is just bad form.
I think the dissatisfaction with O'Malley and the general electoral climate will make this election much closer than one would have predicted a year ago
Agreed. Shocking, I know, but there it is.
And yes, trying to sow dissension in the enemy's ranks ("Gutierrez must be just SO upset with O'Malley") is a subset of the phenomenon known as "concern trolling." Been there, done that.
My point, however sarcastically delivered, is that the turnout effort for O'Malley is going to be enormous and the likelihood that Mark Newgent is going to drive it down even one single vote by talking @!%!#% on Red Maryland is about 0.
Jonathan Shurberg
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