‘Bailout Burr’
December 1, 2009 - by
I talked to two seasoned and smart Democrats recently who think that – contrary to all the talk about 2010 being a Republican year – Richard Burr will be vulnerable.
One, who watched Burr’s race in 2004, thinks he is a weak campaigner. That year, Burr did in fact campaign as far under the radar as he could. He depended on good TV ads to carry him.
Also that year, Erskine Bowles never really had the desire to rip Burr’s heart out of his chest. Though that’s exactly what Burr’s ads did to Bowles.
The other Democrat had an interesting theory about how to go at Burr: attack him for voting for the Wall Street bailout last fall.
That’s right, while hard-working Americans were about to go under, Richard Burr voted to take their money and give it to Wall Street fat-cats and big-bank execs.
That attack, combined with the special-interest tag Burr has acquired in Washington
‘Bailout Burr’
December 1, 2009/
I talked to two seasoned and smart Democrats recently who think that – contrary to all the talk about 2010 being a Republican year – Richard Burr will be vulnerable.
One, who watched Burr’s race in 2004, thinks he is a weak campaigner. That year, Burr did in fact campaign as far under the radar as he could. He depended on good TV ads to carry him.
Also that year, Erskine Bowles never really had the desire to rip Burr’s heart out of his chest. Though that’s exactly what Burr’s ads did to Bowles.
The other Democrat had an interesting theory about how to go at Burr: attack him for voting for the Wall Street bailout last fall.
That’s right, while hard-working Americans were about to go under, Richard Burr voted to take their money and give it to Wall Street fat-cats and big-bank execs.
That attack, combined with the special-interest tag Burr has acquired in Washington