- WaPo’s Numero Uno!
- Braley loses big with all those newspapers circling the wagons in support
Braley best at being worst!
Thanks to VM for forwarding this pleasant eyeopener. The Washington Post feature political column The Fix by Chris Cillizza calls Iowa’s own, Bryce Bruly Bruce Baley Braley the worst candidate of the 2014 election.
Indeed Braley is a ‘super- arrogant ‘ prick of a politician. Not unlike Harkin who he considered his mentor. Harkin had the good fortune of running when the dominant liberal media still had primary control of what was news about him and establishment Republican were feckless about seriously challenging either.
The WaPo’s Cillizza’s reasoning revolves mostly around Braley’s persona. Certainly Joni Ernst had it all over him on that, in substance and down home Iowaness. They remain full square in support of Braley on issues resulting in the Obamantion/ Pelosification of America. They just did not like it that Braley exposed them failed them so embarrassingly.
Braley’s persona grated enough that people took a second look at the opposing view on issues as well. To the effect . . . if somebody like that supports this, I better double-check. Braley’s inability to hide his nature in furtherance of the Democrat Party’s essentially Stalinist agenda, control and regulation of everything for your own good (or rather what they determine to be your own good) was hard to take. That is at the core of the WaPo’s list of candidates they were dissatisfied with.
How dare she! And where is the sting for daring?
The joy of seeing a liberal newspaper turn on one of their own for failing is only matched by seeing their local yokel comrades have so little, if not negative, influence in supporting Braley. The Des Moines Register whose endorsement we are told politicians covet (particularly if they are a liberal or a liberal in disguise) was up in arms about Joni Ernst declining to sit before them and bow to their feeling of profound self-importance. She said “not available” to their endorsement Board summons.
The DMR does not tolerate being dissed, exposing their own arrogance. Maintaining their relevance (cough sputter) is what caused them to diss Obama when he did not want to sit for an on-the-record interview with their editorial board in 2012. After all, what good is off-the-record to a publishing enterprise that is striving to gain back continually faltering appeal. Their feeling of self-importance is not to be trifled with and anyway they had already done yeoman work everyday of their adult lives pushing the liberal agenda. Surely that was set and they could engage in the princess’ privilege of pique and posture the “don’t take me for granted” pose without harm to the realm’s agenda.
Of course Ernst sat still for endless questions from reporters and had three debates which the liberal media projected as they saw fit. There was no serious matter of lack of access or or in-depth questioning available to the media, that is unless such newspapers have no confidence in their reporters. The arrogant newspaper editorial boards just don’t like being dissed. Ernst knew that, indeed she knew declining to sit before them would absolutely guarantee that they would endorse Braley and with relish. She goaded them. Their predictable response helped to establish the image she sought.
The DMR’s comrades at the Quad City Times (Braley has been their boy for a long time), the Cedar Rapids Gazette, the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald and others all used the DMR diss and Ernst’s extension of it to them as fodder for commentaries opposing Ernst and supporting Braley. Surely no surprise to Ernst, and we think welcomed.
All those “major Iowa newspapers endorsing Braley, and she won handily. Where is the sting? We hope the Republican establishment everywhere can see the lesson in this. But they won’t. The DC beltway Republicans and their cousins in the state capitols will get back to craving approval from the liberal media.
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