Fri
Sep 22 2006
12:14 pm
Corker's blueprint gets grade of "incomplete" - maybe his dog ate the rest of it?
By: R. Neal

From his website, here's Corker's "Blueprint for Change":

Step 1: Cut taxes
Step 2: Scare you
Step 3: ?
Step 4: ?

Is this the most half-assed campaign for the U.S. Senate by a major party candidate in the history of Tennessee?

UPDATE: Compare and contrast...

Corker issues page: 2nd Amendment, taxes, military, security, jobs, faith & family, judicial, in that order.

Ford issues page: Education, health care, technology, energy, balanced budget, competitive workforce, pensions, pork-barrel spending, faith as his guide, in that order.

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redmondkr's picture

Step 3.  Start fundraising

Submitted by redmondkr on Fri, 2006/09/22 - 12:22pm.

Step 3.  Start fundraising to get re-elected.

Number9's picture

Is this the most half-assed

Submitted by Number9 on Fri, 2006/09/22 - 12:28pm.

Is this the most half-assed campaign for the U.S. Senate by a major party candidate in the history of Tennessee?

So far.

R. Neal's picture

Flooz.com?

Submitted by R. Neal on Fri, 2006/09/22 - 12:40pm.

Flooz.com? Or maybe Kozmo.com?

Tiny Tim's picture

Worst Senate Campaign Belongs to Victor Ashe, Bulldog Tough

Submitted by Tiny Tim (not verified) on Fri, 2006/09/22 - 12:55pm.

That was a real gasser when Victor Ashe thought he had statewide clout in his run for the U.S. Senate in 1984. His events in Memphis were so poorly attended often times he would call ahead after the plane landed and if there was not sufficient attendance, he'd issue a press release stating that the plane had trouble or the weather was bad and get back on the plane and go back to Knoxville. To show you how piss poor a candidate he really was, he couldn't get elected despite a Reagan landslide in Tennessee in 1984 as he was swept in for a second term. Reagan went on to make history, Al Gore went to the other side of Capital Hill, Victor went back to Knoxville to find some other political job where he could camp out.

Brian A.'s picture

Border

Submitted by Brian A. on Fri, 2006/09/22 - 1:03pm.

With all the TV commercials he is running on the topic, you'd think Corker would have added that to the list.

I didn't watch any of the primary debates.  Has someone asked Corker if Bush's immigration proposal is an "amnesty" plan? 

Brian A.
I'd rather be cycling.

SayUncle's picture

'Is this the most half-assed

Submitted by SayUncle on Fri, 2006/09/22 - 1:15pm.

'Is this the most half-assed campaign for the U.S. Senate by a major party candidate in the history of Tennessee?'

It is, indeed.

Metulj, first Izzard, now you're ripping off the underpants gnomes?

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SayUncle
Can't we all just get a long gun?

Les Jones's picture

metulj:

Submitted by Les Jones on Fri, 2006/09/22 - 2:31pm.

I know you are but what am I?

Now go oppress some more coffee slingers, Mr. coffee-slinger oppressor. 

Hey, Les, why don't we just call each other assholes and get it over with. - Somebody on the old Southknoxbubba.net (if that was you, claim your quote and win net.fame!)

Andy Axel's picture

So, in Corker's case, are we

Submitted by Andy Axel on Fri, 2006/09/22 - 2:42pm.

So, in Corker's case, are we confronted with this formulation...?

1. Win Republican primary

2. ????

3. Get elected!

I'll admit, the one variable that I didn't take into account when assessing HFJ's chances was the idea that the GOP nominee would pretty much try to coast after winning the primary.

The GOP is going to be collectively clutching pearls and swooning over to the fainting couch if Ford pulls this one out.

Kudos to Ford's campaign -- they've been taking little for granted. Compare and contrast with the GOP, who's so convinced that their own press releases are reality that they can't even fill out a bullet list.

I love the placeholders there. Reminds me of this time I read a first person news account of a baseball game, where the reporter's notes went out in the fishwrapper edition; it said, (note: be sure 2 vfy final score b4 press)

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On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning. --H. Thoreau

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