Yesterday, in another major Republican primary upset, Deb Fischer won the Senate contest and will face Democrat Bob Kerrey in the Nebraska general election in November. Fischer was in third place in polling conducted throughout the primary campaign, but was endorsed by Sarah Palin and Herman Cain recently, which seems to have caused an upsurge in her support.
Fischer, who is a rancher and a first-term state senator, faced two statewide office holders in the primary, each of whom had national support from interest groups that filled the state with numerous negative ads. The opponent who was favored was Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning, who was supported by the Tea Party Express, Citizens United, Rick Santorum, and Mike Huckabee. The other well-known and well-funded candidate was Don Stenberg, the state Treasurer. He was supported by Jim DeMint’s PAC, Senate Conservatives Fund, and the Club For Growth.
These two candidates and their Super PACs spent over $3 million combined in the primary. They decided to use almost all of the money on negative ads against each other. It is a well-known concept that when there are three candidates, and two of them engage in a negative campaign against each other, the third person will gain votes at the other two candidates’ expense. The best known example of this was the 1992 Presidential race, where Perot’s popularity rose as Clinton and Bush began running negative ads. When they each recognized this, both camps switched to a more positive style, emphasizing their own good qualities. Perot’s popularity then stabilized. He was still a factor in the race until the media mounted its own negative campaign against the Texas entrepreneur to keep a third party from arising.
Fischer becomes a slight favorite over Kerrey in the general election due to a Republican voter advantage in the state. She has staunchly conservative credentials and the GOP is expected to solidify its support behind her. It can be expected as well that, if she seeks Palin’s active support, she will receive it. This campaign provides additional evidence that Ms. Palin retains enormous popularity in the GOP. In this race, she single-handedly defeated perhaps the two most powerful interest groups within the party, the CFG and Tea Party Express. I don’t believe anyone else could have accomplished this.
Here is a campaign video for Fischer:
May 16th, 2012 at 10:41 am
I will never, for the life of me, understand the continued fixation on Sarah Palin.
May 16th, 2012 at 4:11 pm
Shes got a lot of good points,incredibly motivating, responsible for 2010 giving us the House, ontop of many achievements to brag about,and has succeeded in making American women looking more independent and powerful than any leftist/feminist or NOW member has ever produced.
And if she burned her bra she’d still be absolutely hot n standing at attention, if you catch my drift
May 16th, 2012 at 7:54 pm
Could be this election’s Sharron Angle disaster. Bruning would have won this race easily.
May 17th, 2012 at 5:12 am
2012 will not be like 2010. It will be even worse for Democrats. The anti-Obama vote will sweep away the Democrats, as they are broomed into the dustbin of history.
May 17th, 2012 at 5:52 am
@ Andy
I pray.
I don’t understand how all hell hasn’t broke loose yet.
May 17th, 2012 at 6:55 am
Politics is littered with the corpses of righteous warriors.
May 17th, 2012 at 7:54 am
Aint that something ?
Iran and Afghanistan shutting down and returning to exactly what they were, while Iran drools at the prospects of our heroes all dying so dickhead looks good in the eyes of idiots
May 17th, 2012 at 5:01 pm
So we should stay there?
Until when?
To what, win?
How would we know when that happened?
May 17th, 2012 at 6:35 pm
“How would we know when that happened?”
When those fckin idiots stop trying to kill Americans !
Hows that ?
All those soldiers died so the poppy can keep funding them and Iran can annex Iraq under the threat of nukes.
Any fckin idiot knows that leaving is the dumbest thing we can do.
But, we always get complacent with a very patient enemy.
At least one man had the balls to at least try to tame them.
Now its all in reverse.
FOOR FCKING NOTHING !!!!!
May 17th, 2012 at 6:40 pm
Bush said it was going to be a long war, were fighting an ideology, not a country.
Ass-hole thinks leaving them alone and killing UBL is going to accomplish anything.
Hes a fckin idiot who should of been in Yemen last year kicking ass.
We knew it, everyone knew it, Yemens where the roaches scattered to.
Instead he gives fckin money to Hamas/Iran
May 17th, 2012 at 7:14 pm
You can fight this war for the next thirty years and engage the sons of the people you are fighting now.
As you said, you are fighting an ideology and that cannot be defeated.
The Soviet Union fought the sons of their original opponents.
Yemen, wherever, it is Whack a Mole.
Use drones when necessary, but stop sacrificing young people for no apparent reason.
To build Afghanistan?
There has never been a centralized government, why will that succeed? We are not fighting terrorists in that country, we are fighting the Taliban and they are no longer one and the same.
There are only two alternatives. Kill every person in the country, or leave.
They are not wearing uniforms, who do you kill?
Otherwise it is human bait and reactions to an attack.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome.
Leave, now.
May 17th, 2012 at 8:30 pm
“As you said, you are fighting an ideology and that cannot be defeated.”
I never said it cannot be be defeated.
Please show me where I said that.
I said that at least one man had the balls to try and tame it.
Its been around for centuries, Tunisia, etc.
After WW2 and the radicals (Muslim Brotherhood)decided to trade methods and plans with N@zis on how to go about exterminating all Jews. Yes, there were thousands of Arab N@zis, look it up, who’d lost no love for Germans, still had a common enemy.
One small twist of fate and there might be no Jews or Muslims on this planet at all.
Read a book.
In these past centuries radical Islam has operated in many fashions, piracy, extortion, etc.
Terrorism is only recent in the last 50 years.
Over the centuries the radical ideology has been minimized at times and kept at bay, sometimes almost dormant.
But this fckin idiot has no clue what hes dealing with.
The bomb worked for Dems, when they werent these pansy “progressive liberals”.
A couple of well placed medium sized ICBMs would slow em down big time.
Packin your sht up just to win an election is about the most deplorable and disgusting thing I’ve ever seen any president do on the backs of thousands of dead soldiers who volunteered to fight a war that they believed was worth it.
Dont fck with me on this subject unless you’re willing to accept history and the truth and not lie by putting words in my mouth.
I was adopted by a Jew who never knew his parents, married my mother(Danish) who was raped, beaten, jailed and tattooed by Nutzies along with my grandma for hiding Swiss soldiers.
Mein Kampf next to the Koran is still a bestseller in the Middle East.
Todays radical Arab is still fascinated by a man who surely would of commited genocide upon them as well, once they got the Jews all bundled up in one place.
After the Balford Accord and agreements with Arabs and the League of Nations the Arabs reneged on the agreement because now they had the majority of Jews nicely bound up in one area requiring minimum effort in eradication.
Think about it, study, it makes sense, I know my sht on this one
But thanks to dickhead, it was all for nothing.
Nothing but his narcissistic antisemitic ass winning an election where again he plans on keeping no promises.
Hes pimpin out the whole country and you cant see it
May 17th, 2012 at 8:44 pm
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome.”
lol
you morons have been kissing their asses since Carter, what did it get you ?
You havent even gone one round.
It’ll take 12 rounds my way but they’ll never ask for a re-match.
Its you and Carter and Clinton who’ve been signing pi$$ process after pi$$ process for 40 years now.
We were actually getting somewhere til this idiot came along and said he was sorry.
Your insanity analogy was not thought out very well
May 18th, 2012 at 3:02 am
So nukes are the answer?
Well that might just work.
If you are ever going to enter one of these wars with an enemy that can’t be identified amongst the general populace than you only have one option. Kill everyone.
Iraq would have been over in a day, Afghanistanians, dead, ungoverned Pakistan, dead, Yemen, dead. Why stop there? Egypt? Dead. Libya? Dead. Iran? Dead.
I am sure I have missed a few.
May 18th, 2012 at 4:02 am
“I am sure I have missed a few.”
Then you’re probably using a North Korean nuke!!
May 18th, 2012 at 8:54 am
“If you are ever going to enter one of these wars with an enemy that can’t be identified amongst the general populace than you only have one option. Kill everyone.”
Thats why the Japanese surrendered and halted all Kamikazi loyaties to the emperor.
It was the only way to stop Japanese suicide Banzai.
It fckin worked !
Today the Japanese are one of our closest allies and trade partners.
“Iraq would have been over in a day,”
Iraq had a uniformed military, its Saddam we wanted. Different war, different reasons.
” Afghanistanians, dead, ungoverned Pakistan, dead, Yemen, dead. Why stop there? Egypt? Dead. Libya? Dead. Iran? Dead.”
Your missing the point.
First you lied about something I never said, now you’re painting a whole scenario which I never presented either.
I said “a couple well placed ICBMs” would show we mean business.
Give it up already.
If you cant debate without blatant lies by putting words in my mouth and asking questions that are absolutely contrary point, why bother.
What is obvious is that your party has just let thousands of our soldiers die for nothing.
Our intentions were not genocidal, as you falsely claimed.
The idea was to intervene on perceived threats to our soil, which was done very well during Bushs term.
Al Queda and the Taliban were to be killed or captured with the intention of them never being able to get footing for more attacks.
Obama fckin blew it.
All that sacrifice for nothing.
Mr. Obama, you say “your success depends on “shared sacrifice” and everyone getting a fare break” ?
He’s full of sht
May 18th, 2012 at 12:09 pm
“If you are ever going to enter one of these wars with an enemy that can’t be identified amongst the general populace than you only have one option. Kill everyone.”
Thats why the Japanese surrendered and halted all Kamikazi loyaties to the emperor.
It was the only way to stop the Japanese suicide Banzai pilots.
These morons need to be taught that their efforts are not worth it.
Unfortunately when you’re lead by a warped theology that is also your government saying your efforts will hasten the return of the 12th Imam, but only until all infidels are killed or converted,you’ve got a long job ahead of you.
George Bush understood this, which is why the left trying to connect him to the “Mission Accomplished” banner was and still is freaking lame.
Christianity and the end times prophecy is very similar in many ways except that God himself, or his sister Nature will do the killing.
In other interpretations the end times are a result of the false prophet bringing on the war of all wars.
The difference is I’m not running around randomly killing non Christians as a means to hasten the prophecy. If I were, other Christians would come looking for me and jail my ass.
I dont see Islam doing much at all in helping us deal with their lunatics.
They’ll be back. And the next time we can blame Obama for his appeasement to our enemy and his suicidal withdrawals just so he can win an election.
Ever notice how during his campaign he bashed the Bush doctrine and methods and reasons but as soon as he became Commander in Chief he kept all those measures of Bushs that he bashed ? (he got a look at “the real intelligence”)
He knows this is a patient enemy and has convinced some idiots that almost everything that can be done other than forced multiculturalism.
He doesnt care. The next attack on America will be blood on his hands because he failed, he dropped the ball, made false claims of false success just to win an election.
We were getting somewhere, the frequency of attacks were down during the Bush era. Not one drop of American blood took place on our soil the whole time Bush presided.
As soon as Barry was sworn in our bases, embassies and airlines all fell under attack again, spilling American blood on our soil.
Bush kept his word and put a doctrine in motion that if followed by future leaders would of made this a much safer world.
Much of anything else you had to say was either irrelevant or needed a set of pom poms
It fckin worked !
Today the Japanese are one of our closest allies and trade partners.
“Iraq would have been over in a day,”
Iraq had a uniformed military, its Saddam we wanted. Different war, different reasons.
” Afghanistanians, dead, ungoverned Pakistan, dead, Yemen, dead. Why stop there? Egypt? Dead. Libya? Dead. Iran? Dead.”
Your missing the point.
First you lied about something I never said, now you’re painting a whole scenario which I never presented either.
I said “a couple well placed ICBMs” would show we mean business.
Give it up already.
If you cant debate without blatant lies by putting words in my mouth and asking questions that are absolutely contrary point, why bother.
What is obvious is that your party has just let thousands of our soldiers die for nothing.
Our intentions were not genocidal, as you falsely claimed.
The idea was to intervene on perceived threats to our soil, which was done very well during Bushs term.
Al Queda and the Taliban were to be killed or captured with the intention of them never being able to get footing for more attacks.
Obama fckin blew it.
All that sacrifice for nothing.
Mr. Obama, you say “your success depends on “shared sacrifice” and everyone getting a fare break” ?
He’s full of sht
May 19th, 2012 at 3:35 pm
You said we are fighting an ideology, I added that it can’ be defeated. I should have broken up the sentence with a quotation mark.
I think everyone quickly realized that.
Wow, you would think I killed someone.
Many of you really have a hair trigger in this blood sport.
Ummm. relax?
You present a thought. I respond. You intimate that I am a fool. We move on. No big deal.
Same story, different day.
As many people commented the other day, they just want to change one mind.
I am acutely aware that I will never change one mind on this site, which is fine. I realize that the people on this site have a “religiosity” about their opinions.
Nothing, and I mean, nothing will sway one view.
It reminds me of Kerry vs. Bush.
One served in Vietnam, the other found himself in the champagne faction of the National Guard, but Republicans believed that Kerry was a coward, while Bush was brave.
May 19th, 2012 at 3:39 pm
A good example of this religiosity was when the subject of this post, Sarah Palin, was interviewed by Katie Couric.
They accused Couric of “Gotcha” journalism.
Would did Couric do?
She asked what Palin read.
Can everyone on this site answer that question in five seconds?
Can their 8 year old child answer that question?
Of course, but the right claimed that Couric was unfair to Palin.
May 19th, 2012 at 4:43 pm
Buzz?
Seriously–You are defending that wasteland of journolister Katie Couric? You suffer from Palin derangement syndrome.Everytime Palin was called a slut or a cu**,you probably broke out in buffoon laughter.Better yet,you loved her being hung in effigy (for art sake) or her church in Alaska being attacked.
Keeping Up with the Lattermans and Mahers.
Reality shows for Moonbats.
LMAO
May 19th, 2012 at 5:33 pm
“Could be this election’s Sharron Angle disaster. Bruning would have won this race easily.”
The idea Patrick is not to put up a “go along to get along” candidate just to win a Senate seat. If we don’t put up true conservative candidates and back them we’ll never change the status quo. Are Castle, Lugar, and Specter what we want?
Orrin Hatch is bitchin’ but he’s getting the message.
May 19th, 2012 at 5:49 pm
Yeah buzz, whats your answer ?
These heroes died for what ?
No one ever said we have to kill every single one of them.
But I did say we have to maintain and tame it at least.
Iraq, Afghanistan, are returning to what once was with the help of Iran, Russia, N. Korea, and liberal idiots.
You obviously dont know a damn thing but what the moonbat media tells you.
Christianity is almost as popular as Islam.
These days Christians are not perfect but at least they’ve evolved to more humane reason and interpretation of the bible.
The Koran is in every way incompatible with our constitution.
They have said its them or us.
Simple.
We were going in the right direction until dickhead fcked it all up.
The mideast including Israel, Afghanistan and Pakeestan are becoming very unsettled.
But dickhead doesnt realize this is what they do.
They befriend countries, accept aid, training and ammunition from us. Then turn on us.
Obviously you guys just dont get it.
Put simply.
They stepped all over us when liberals ran the show. Carter and Clinton only bolstered the hatred.
When Reagan came around they wised up.
These people dont want peace.
And you morons just want to pack it in.
Makes me sick that all those soldiers died for nothing. While you ass holes cheer on the moron responsible.
I’ve yet to hear a logical solution from liberals on how to deal with 10% of 7 billion people who want all of us fcking dead. And are willing to wait for us to blink if it takes a thousand years.
At some point the hornets nest must be knocked down and future ones prevented from being built.
“Can everyone on this site answer that question in five seconds?”
Trust me. Its not the first time a liberal has left my mouth gapping open with confusion after they ask something.
Recent example…
Joe Biden; “They just dont get us”
Very few people have any idea what he was trying to say. Whats he expect ?
“We’ll read the bill after its signed” still has my brain spinning trying to interpret such idiocy.
“Boxers or briefs” gets dropped on Clinton.
“When did you stop beating your wife”
Gets tossed at Republicans.
Whats it like of a man of your prestige having a gay daughter “?
HUH?
“What do you think can keep Tea Party racism at bay “?
You guys ask sht that would glaze over the eyes of any decent intellect.
“Fake, but real”
HUH ?
WTF ?
May 19th, 2012 at 5:59 pm
“Can everyone on this site answer that question in five seconds?”
Theres no way for Sarah to answer that civilly.
Moonbats write 75% of the crap in print.
I guarantee you she was asking herself the whole time”wtf does that have to do with anything”?
One things for sure.
She reads legislation better than most liberals.
Theres no magazine I read regularly
May 19th, 2012 at 6:23 pm
“She asked what Palin read.”
Did she ask Billy Ray what he read?? Now that would have been interesting!!!
May 19th, 2012 at 6:28 pm
Arent you embarrassed writing such feeble sht ?
“Republicans believed that Kerry was a coward, while Bush was brave.”?
Kerrys story was proven bullsht, none of it Jived.
Yeah, Bush crashed a plane.
And jump right back on that pony.
To be honest, I’d spend less money on keyboards if Kerry was in office right now even though he verbally sht on our troops.
Things might be only half as fcked up as they are.
I can see Theresa with the whip and John with the gag ball in his mouth