Archive for March 2012
The Fault Line
Since before the Iowa Caucus the pundits have been saying what Republican voters care about most is electing the strongest candidate to beat Obama, or electing the candidate who’d fight hardest to cut spending. Almost everyone’s been opining ‘The election’s about who can beat Obama’ or ‘The election’s about spending,’ but it turns out that’s…
Read MoreThe New John Edwards?
A Democratic operative (not in the governor’s race) says Bill Faison may place a statewide TV buy of nearly $1.5 million in April. Will Faison be the John Edwards of 2012? That’s not fair to Faison. I don’t mean the John Edwards we came to know. I mean the Edwards we met in 1998,…
Read MoreCalling Out a Skunk
Paul Coble reared up on his hind legs and slammed an evangelical, born again, Spirit moving Baptist by calling him a liberal gay marriage supporter – then added that’s the kind of no good varmint who’s supporting his opponent’s campaign and that’s all the reason anyone needs to know to vote against George Holding. …
Read MoreTwo Masters
You could earn a bachelor’s degree in political science just talking to the two of them: former Governor Jim Hunt and Congressman (and Minority Whip) Steny Hoyer. They were together last night at a fundraiser for Congressman Larry Kissell hosted by Heather and Bruce Thompson in Raleigh. Hoyer has represented Maryland in Congress…
Read MoreSuck It Up, Democrats
North Carolina Democrats need to get out of their funk. You can see why so many of them are down. We got hammered in 2010. The Republicans grabbed control of the legislature, the budget, the political agenda, redistricting and fundraising with efficiency and ruthlessness. Democrats got down even more when many of their…
Read MoreJeanne Bonds Responds
Jeanne Bonds, “lead strategist” for Bill Faison’s campaign, posted a comment on my blog below, “Faison Strikes Out (Again) on Twitter?” I’ve removed her comment, because it made an accusation that I know isn’t true against another individual. But I’m more than happy to give space to her accusations against me, to wit: “Gary Pearce…
Read MoreWhat Will Be the 2008 Game Changer?
You can be certain of one thing about the 2012 election: The thing that will decide it hasn’t happened yet. At this point in 2008, nobody had heard of Sarah Palin. And nobody expected the economy to nearly collapse in six months. The possibilities are endless: war with Iran? Another disaster in Afghanistan?…
Read MoreFaison Strikes (Out) Again on Twitter?
Last week I blogged (“Anti-Social Media”) about tweets by Jeanne Milliken Bonds, Bill Faison’s campaign manager. A TAPster now sees evidence that Faison’s campaign is behind a fake Bob Etheridge Twitter account. The TAPster spotted identical tweets from both Bonds and the parody site “Bobby(B.B)Etheridge.” Both Bonds and B.B. had tweeted: “The “restless…
Read MoreFaison Strikes (Out) Again on Twitter?
Last week I blogged (“Anti-Social Media”) about tweets by Jeanne Milliken Bonds, Bill Faison’s campaign manager. A TAPster now sees evidence that Faison’s campaign is behind a fake Bob Etheridge Twitter account. The TAPster spotted identical tweets from both Bonds and the parody site “Bobby(B.B)Etheridge.” Both Bonds and B.B. tweeted: “The “restless energy”…
Read MoreDalton Raises the Energy Level
Not long ago I blogged that some people call Walter Dalton dull. (Not that there’s anything wrong with a governor being a bit dull; see Sarah Palin and Mark Sanford.) Now his video ad “Restless Energy” reflects what I’m hearing about Dalton on the stump and in person: that he has become a forceful…
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