Unlike John McCain, here’s one fellow who will never be confused for a statesman: [Massachusetts] State Representative Geoff Diehl, in an effort to ramp up immigration-focused attacks on US Senator Elizabeth Warren, [has] released a campaign video [asserting] that 20 people a day — or the equivalent of “over 7,000 people every year” — are […]
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Geek Squad: The GOP Sends Its Weakest Against Warren
Look, I know Republicans have never been big on cleverness or wit, but certainly they could do better than this…word that rhymes with wit. Get a load of this hopelessly lame, hideously corny ad now contaminating television screens in Massachusetts, paid for by one of the junior-varsity GOPers running to win the September 4 Republican […]
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This is What You Call “Assuming the Voters Are Idiots”
Every time a Republican claims to be “centrist,” he or she is attempting to pull off a con.
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One Democratic Consultant’s Fee: Thirty Pieces of Silver
To quote the renowned Scottish philosopher Gerry Rafferty, I’m trying to make some sense of it all, but I see it makes no sense at all: [Massachusetts] GOP U.S. Senate candidate John Kingston quietly hired Democratic consultant and former Gov. Deval Patrick adviser Ron Bell to woo voters in “urban areas” — even as the […]
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The GOP’s Woeful War Over Warren
Massachusetts Republicans are incapable of making a coherent case against Warren.
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Elizabeth Warren’s GOP Challengers Have No Credentials and No Credibility
Like a championship team whose top rivals are nowhere in their class, it appears that US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) will be facing off against a member of the GOP B-team next year. Apparently, the days of Republicans recruiting main-event players (Mitt Romney in 1994, Bill Weld in 1996) to challenge the Bay State’s senators […]
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The Real Story Behind a Romney Aide’s Challenge to Elizabeth Warren
So, is this the best the Massachusetts Republican Party can offer? Longtime Republican operative Beth Lindstrom, a former senior aide to Mitt Romney and manager of Scott Brown’s victorious Senate campaign, said Wednesday she is considering a challenge to US Senator Elizabeth Warren. Lindstrom has held a series of conversations with top state Republicans about […]
