BACK To The CENTER! Blanche Lincoln NOW Distancing Herself From HCR

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Blanche Lying Lincoln Opportunist AD:

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PjXIr4im2s&feature=player_embedded>



Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) may have hoped she'd put the primary behind her, but it will continue to haunt her for weeks to come. Now that she's running full-time in the general election against Rep. John Boozman, Lincoln is once again shoring up her right flank, tiptoeing away from the rhetoric she used to defeat Arkansas Lt. Gov. Bill Halter. The results are...awkward.


For instance, in an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Lincoln tried to dispel the notion that she cast the deciding vote for health care reform, which remains unpopular in Arkansas.


"I wasn't the deciding vote," Lincoln said. "I was among a handful of five Democrats that worked on getting consensus."


There's some truth to that. But where did the Democrat-Gazette get the notion that Lincoln tipped health care into the Democrats' win column? From Blanche Lincoln, who in the below ad said, " I grew up in an Arkansas family where we were taught to solve problems, not through hate and anger, but by coming together and getting something done. That's why I cast the deciding vote to pass health care reform."



Neither characterization is inaccurate. Lincoln was one of four senators, depending on how you count, who withheld their votes on health care reform until the public option was stripped from the bill. And they negotiated as a bloc. But each of them had to be persuaded independently and in that regard all of them--including Sens. Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Mary Landrieu (D-LA)--were the deciding votes.

But in Arkansas being the "deciding vote" for health care is only a badge of honor in a Democratic primary. Now that she's running against a Republican it's not a distinction that helps her. But she'll have a hard time running away from it, and will likely pay for trying to have it both ways.



<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/lincoln-i-was-not-the-deciding-vote-on-health-care-reform.php?ref=fpa>

[laughingliberal]

1. All she has to say to shore up the right is, "I was the one who killed the public option."

Course, then she loses Democrats. What's a DINO to do?

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4. What a friggin disappointment to have this republican corporatist squeak back in.

[Jackpine Radical]

14. Oh, but the Progressives have nowhere else to go, dontchaknow?

[sandnsea]

2. What vote?

She voted against it. What the fuck is she talking about? Is she talking about cloture? I can't keep up with this dimwit.

[closeupready]

8. And the ad is clearly aimed at people who, unlike yourself, are uninformed.

Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of her voting history will also respond, 'what the fuck is she talking about?' I don't want Dems to lose a Senate seat, but if they do, it will ALL be on the DLC, as far as I'm concerned and Rahm Emanuel.

[Sebastian Doyle]

3. Center of WHAT?

She's never been "centrist" (as if that fucking means anything). She was far right....pretended to be slightly less far right, and after securing her stolen primary, has returned to the extreme right again, as proven beyond any doubt when she sided with MurCOWski yesterday.

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. I am thinking that 99% of politicians are pond scum.

If they don't start out that way, "the process" surely turns them into it. My disgust meter could not go any higher (at a spinal tap 11).

Does Obama still think he can work with ANY Republican or Blue Dog Dem? If so, he is utterly deluded.

[kctim]

6. Typical politics

She played the middle to win, is now the Dem candidate and NOW must keep the moderate Dems who don't want the HCR that was passed, from voting for the Republican candidate.

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7. Its gets very tiresome having to listen to the constant spin-bullshit drivel being shoveled by

these closet republicans dressed in Democratic drag.

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10. I guess we should just roll over like good Democrats and follow Big Dog's lead supporting Blanche?

:smoke::smoke::smoke::smoke::thumbsdown:

[sandnsea]

11. Looked at Boozman?

Yes, until the day after the election, we should support Blanche Lincoln. :puke:

Because she's better than this.

http://www.boozmanforarkansas.com/

[kctim]

12. Of course not

you should ALWAYS support who you think will do the best job. Just stop expecting other Democrats to roll over and follow you're lead.

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16. I'm not asking anyone to " follow my lead ". I'm sure smart Democrats will be guided by their own

convictions.

[ProgressiveVictory]

9. I didn't expect anything less from her.

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13. Gee, I hope working people and unions don't abandon Blanche in her hour of need

She's going to need all the help she can get to keep this Senate seat nominally in the Democrat column. Unless they're all a bunch of ingrates. Blanche isn't muttering "suckers," she's thinking about how much she needs the truckers to vote for her! Yeah, that's the ticket.

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15. So typical of Miz Blank

She will say and do anything to save her sorry milquetoast ass. I fear the Boozman machine will grind her up like Walmart burger meat come November.