For GOP House freshman Mike Kelly, Washington is a tough sell

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<snip P.3> To win reelection, he said, Kelly will have to appeal not just to the Erie-based district's tea party base but also to its Reagan Democrats.

"This seat has historically been held by a moderate Republican," said Daniel Shea, a political scientist at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa., who moderated a debate between Kelly and Dahlkemper. "And what was interesting about Mike Kelly's race is I could not detect a moderate bone in his body."

Kelly said he wants to differentiate himself from his party's leadership, but when asked he could not specify an issue on which he would diverge. Democrats are eager to make this a negative. Bill Cole, chairman of the Erie County Democratic Party, described Kelly as an empty suit who will "regurgitate and rubber-stamp" the Republican agenda.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...l_politics

This is the story of a pub going to congress. No knowledge of the workings, but an ax to grind. It's interesting as to what our Democrats will be up against....ignorance.

[OptimistesMaddie]

(12-29-2010 05:53 AM)Sass Wrote:  <snip P.3> To win reelection, he said, Kelly will have to appeal not just to the Erie-based district's tea party base but also to its Reagan Democrats.

"This seat has historically been held by a moderate Republican," said Daniel Shea, a political scientist at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa., who moderated a debate between Kelly and Dahlkemper. "And what was interesting about Mike Kelly's race is I could not detect a moderate bone in his body."

Kelly said he wants to differentiate himself from his party's leadership, but when asked he could not specify an issue on which he would diverge. Democrats are eager to make this a negative. Bill Cole, chairman of the Erie County Democratic Party, described Kelly as an empty suit who will "regurgitate and rubber-stamp" the Republican agenda.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...l_politics

This is the story of a pub going to congress. No knowledge of the workings, but an ax to grind. It's interesting as to what our Democrats will be up against....ignorance.

The key for the Democrats is to make sure that the ignorance is made public for the country to see. It really is that simple.

[jaxx]

Around 100 new people in congress next week, I'm not sure how many of them are pure teabagger and how many pubs and dems. But the teabaggers are going to be interesting to watch as Boehner and Cantor try to herd them into spending money they ran against. We'll be busy, but putting their oddball ideals out there will be required.

[Capn Sunshine]

The key for Democrats is to get this ignorance into sound bites and replay them over and over. Coupled with their "Tear down Healthcare" and other regressive and stubbornly ideological stands, the full blame for nothing getting done will now fall upon the Republican do nothings ; where it should have been all along. Just in time for 2012.