Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln Bolts from Her Party in New Ad
ABC News' Teddy Davis and David Chalian report:
What does it take for a Democrat to win in a Red State in 2010?
For starters, depict Washington, a town run by your own party, as children.
Second, explicitly tout your opposition to central components of your party’s agenda including the public option and the cap-and-trade bill.
That’s the strategy being followed by Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D) in a television ad launched on Thursday.
Watch Lincoln’s ad HERE:
In 2008, Arkansas went for John McCain over Barack Obama by 20 points.
Lincoln, who opposes legislation which would make union organizing easier, is being challenged on her Left in the Democratic primary by Lt. Gov. Bill Halter. Halter has attracted the support of organized labor, MoveOn.org, and Democracy for America, the group started by Howard Dean.
On Wednesday, Jane Hamsher of the liberal FireDogLake.com, argued on ABC’s “Top Line,” that a populist Democrat like Halter stands a better chance of winning than a centrist like Lincoln whom Hamsher described as a “corporatist” because of her ties to big business.
Read more of Hamsher’s interview HERE.
ABC News’ Matt Loffman contributed to this report.
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Self interest not the the needs of the
people are at the core of B. Lincoln’s
motives. Getting re-elected without
doing anything for the average American.
She seems happy to join the ranks of
Americans who want to be captives of
the for profit Health Care industry…
Along with all Republicans..
Corporate profits are more important
than you sick grandma on a pention or
a sick child getting chemo.
Bart Stupak and Blanch Lincoln need to
put there own interests asside and get
this thing done for the American people
We did it the Republican way and my bills went up every year while millions
were cut from insurance…To me that is
highly paid corporate executive getting
between the Patient and their Doctor…
Posted by: Blackie | March 4, 2010, 11:44 am 11:44 am
lincoln can redeem herse3lf by saying h*ll no to obama care ad obamanomics. the unions have ruined this country. look at the pensions union workers get vs what we get. look at the teachers unions,seiu,uaw, federal and state workers, etc. there are plenty of unemployed people who would gladly take their place.
Posted by: catman | March 4, 2010, 11:45 am 11:45 am
yea right blackie…your sick grandmother IS CURRENTLY COVERED BY MEDICARE BUT THE DEMS ARE GOING TO CUT IT BY 500 BILLION.american cancer society came out yesterday and dismmisses the benefits of prostate cancer screening while others vehemtly disagree. this is what obama care is going to be.less than 15 milliobn people out 335 million need insurance. your side is full of it and the american public knows it.
Posted by: catman | March 4, 2010, 11:54 am 11:54 am
The Dems have to get over the “hand it to me on a silver platter” mentality, and learn to support themselves and to earn what they have.
No matter who the candidate is…..they must understand, that the primary responsibility for living, remains with the individual. Government cannot support the individual, unless the individual is physically unable to support themselves, due to no fault of their own.
The sooner that Dems understand there can be no free ride, and that every able bodied person must provide for themselves, the sooner this country can get back to being a world leader, and not a third world loser.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | March 4, 2010, 11:59 am 11:59 am
LIE LIE LIE now and they laugh at you after the election is over. Are you that foolish to go for another Democrat Arkansas
Posted by: ChicagoBob | March 4, 2010, 12:07 pm 12:07 pm
Catman and others have a lot of criticism for the elected President of
The United States….but I have not heard a word about what we should do.
Letting corporations run roughshod over powerless citizens is no solution.
What do you do when your sick?
How much profit do these companys need?
Which unions have ruined the country?
Unions help give workers a voice
Would you prefer that workers have no
rights, poor working conditions.
Not everything you don’t agree with is
wrong, or evil.
Posted by: Blackie | March 4, 2010, 12:14 pm 12:14 pm
Republican remind me of the kids that lost the game and just can’t take it….it’s not fair. They cheated! It’s not fair!
Posted by: Gg of Miss. | March 4, 2010, 12:19 pm 12:19 pm
Message to all politicians!! Ride that fence and you will suffer in November.
Posted by: Gg of Miss. | March 4, 2010, 12:21 pm 12:21 pm
Many of my friends are Libertarians..
We have these “discussions” all the time.
But here are some outcome of some of
you’re views..
If you like the Health Care system as is
then you support;
1. Cutting people from their insurance even when they have paid their premiums
because it hurts the Companys bottom line.
2. Rates increase every year faster than inflation.
3. Unelected corporate executives making medical decisions for the patient. (The President’s mother died
fighting the insurance company she had.)
4. No competition..exempt from anti trust.
5. Executive pay that is beyond anything the average person could get in a lifetime. (the work they do doesn’t seem any harder than other jobs)
I do not doubt that there are examples
of waste and abuse. That is everywhere,
private, public, religious..Union/non
Union. Honesty and goodness seem to be
in short supply in this country.
Red or Blue, we are all Americans.
Posted by: Blackie | March 4, 2010, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm
Catman spreading lies again…he is so misinformed and is basing his lies on, oh well whatever. The Democrats Catman got your mama and grandmama their medicare and social security…the Democrats would not have any incentive to cut Medicare or any of the programs that made our country great. But the Republicans are asking daily for the privitizing of Social Security….now that’s dumb! Knowing their wall street buds will be investing my tax dollars and me nor your mama will be any benefits.
Posted by: sara | March 4, 2010, 4:31 pm 4:31 pm
Get that self serving Witch out of there.
Posted by: sara | March 4, 2010, 4:33 pm 4:33 pm
Blanche Lincoln has innate beliefs and
solidity that make Obama look like
a kid who thinks he can steal ANYONE’S
candy, anytime, because no one ever
told this brat that he COULDN’T.
Posted by: Sir Toby Belch | March 5, 2010, 12:04 am 12:04 am
The unions have been taken over by progressives whose goal is power and control. Obama’s appointee to deficit reduction, Andrew Stern, leader of the SEIU states, “workers of the world unite”. Stern wants global control and wants to increase his large union corporation coffers by adding global members and U.S. doctors to its membership. The old Soviet Union was a good example of what Stern’s vision is in regards to exploitatation of the workers on behalf of the elite political class. Unions exploit capitalism and eventually workers by ensuring spreading the wealth is equal, even to non performers. Eventually many of the good workers dumb down to the level of nonperformers in receiving equal work for equal pay, then the political system becomes totalatarian and doesn’t work for the people, much like Venzuela and electricity shortages, Cuba and food shortages, etc. Our country needs to return to its Judeo-Christian principles which allows for all religions to practice their faith. The MSM and PC suppression of religion and faith has morally bankrupted our nation and led to forgetting who we are. Americans want their freedom and with freedom, even corrupt politicians have their say, however that does not mean the majority has to go along with their ideas.
Posted by: Downwithsocialism | March 5, 2010, 9:33 am 9:33 am