Ted Stevens losing support

[Bru]

Tough time for Ted

Whoever said, "There's no such thing as bad publicity as long as they spell your name right" was wrong.

Just ask Ted Stevens. Between Halloween and Thanksgiving, Alaska's senior senator received publicity enough to satisfy even Paris Hilton -- except his publicity was all bad.

Yes, the critics spelled Stevens right. They also spelled "pork," "greed," "waste" and "nowhere" right. For Stevens, Ketchikan's $223 million Gravina Island Bridge was the bridge to a damaged reputation. After loudly defending the bridge, Stevens was trashed by newspapers columnists, TV talk show hosts, AM-radio blabbermouths and interest groups both left and right, especially conservative groups pushing less federal spending. The trashing of Stevens, godfather of the bridge, stuck -- and I am willing to bet the bridge will one day appear in his New York Times obituary.

The bridge became the perfect symbol of federal waste in Alaska, so potent a symbol that the Wall Street Journal recently reported a poll showing more Americans have heard of the "Bridge to Nowhere" than know their member of Congress.

More (Scroll down): http://www.adn.com/opinion/story/7242791p-7154804c.html

[Blue_In_AK]

1. Ted should have quit 10 years ago

when I still had a little respect for him. Now he's just an embarrassment.

[emald]

3. an "oh shit, would you look at that fool" embarrassment e/t

[Blue_In_AK]

4. Plus, he makes the rest of us look really, really bad....

I've seen a fair amount of bash-Alaskans-in-general on DU from time to time. Ted's performances make people who don't know any better think we're ALL greedy little piggies up here. I'm really sick of it.

[emald]

5. No doubt about it

the man is just over and gone. His stuttering and raging (the two really don't go well together) seems destined to shunt him to the side.
This guy needs to go; he is holding Alaska back.

[snowbear]

2. He needs to call it a career and bow out...

But he's just too arrogant to do that..