I frigging LOVE IT! "The more money Meg Whitman spends, the higher her unfavorable ratings go up"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Meg Whitman proves money doesn't buy love

http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/meg-whitman-proves-money-doesnt-buy-love

By karoli Friday Aug 20, 2010 9:00am

Out here in California, eMeg is spending up a storm -- over $100 million so far. That's before Jerry Brown cranks up his campaign machine.

Problem is, no one likes what she's saying. The more money she spends, the higher her unfavorable ratings go up, and not just with liberals and moderates.

According to SF Gate, the (euphemistically labeled) "conservative wing" of California's GOP plan to call her out on her mixed, muddled messaging around Arizona's AB 1070.

Whitman, who remains in a dead heat with Democrat Jerry Brown despite spending a record-busting $104 million of her own money, will face criticism from some of the 1,000 grassroots party members descending on the Manchester Grand Hyatt starting Friday.

Much of the blowback will come from members of the California Republican Assembly, a group of activists that former President Ronald Reagan called "the conscience of the Republican Party."

Conservatives want the state GOP to approve a resolution backing Arizona's law targeting illegal immigrants and a similar California law, Proposition 187, approved by voters in 1994 but later overturned by a federal judge. Whitman opposes both measures.

The debate could be toxic for Whitman. As far as I can tell, her campaign has been based on a few weird promises to increase state unemployment rates by terminating 40,000 state employees and a lot of vague promises to run the state like a corporation. As far as her views on immigration are concerned, it seems that Whitman adopts whatever position will garner her the most votes. On that score, the conservatives have it right:

Greig isn't worried that a high-profile conversation about the divisive issue will hurt the party's chances in November. "We are standing on principle here," she said. "I do not think pandering to the illegal alien community will help us. They don't vote."

That may be true. But Hispanics vote, and there are a lot of them here in California. Legal ones. With the legal right to vote, and they might not take kindly to the xenophobic attitudes that eMeg and her party espouse.

Bring it on.

[louis-t]

1. It seems the more she spends, the more she is visible.

CA voters don't seem to like what they see.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. $100 million plus buys a lot of lipstick...

...but when you smear it on a pig, all you end up with is a lipstick-smeared pig.

:patriot:

[AsahinaKimi]

5. Must be a

Giant sized pig by now.. I hope it becomes a neon sign to everyone with a vote and a brain.. Don't vote for the RePig..um RePug..Rethug..! :P

[OneGrassRoot]

2. I LOVE that, too!!!

:bounce:

:applause:

:hi:

[Oceansaway]

4. wooooohoooooo !!...nt

[lpbk2713]

6. Meg is good for the economy.

And that's about all she's good for. :rofl:

[EFerrari]

7. Sweet! Spend, Meg, spend!

lol

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. Brown started airing a hard hitting ad, questioning her Ebay credentials

[Ignis]

10. Nice!

Have you seen it posted online anywhere? I'd love to see it.

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. Try Brown's site. SOmetimes candidates have the commercial on their website

[Ignis]

16. Oh, duh. Is it this one, "pants on fire?"

http://www.youtube.com/v/fBZo3yXXk54

[Liberal_in_LA]

21. no.

[mikelgb]

9. She should have stuck with that decades old photo of her as a kid

[Ignis]

11. K&R

She really is a horrible person, and the more CA voters see of her, the less they're likely to vote for her.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

13. You just keep on talking Meg, and keep on spending.

:rofl:

I love this so much.

[gratuitous]

14. I'm sure the conscience of the GOP will talk sense into her

Why do I think that Ms. Whitman is not really the kind of person you can sit down with and say, "Can I offer you some constructive criticism?"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

15. She'll listen...

...right after she slaps the shit out of you for daring to speak to her (http://www.salon.com/news/2010/06/15/us_calif_governor_whitman_altercation/index.html).

[calimary]

18. Conscience? Of the GOP? Where?

It only existed in ronald reagan's mind. And we all know how that mind "worked."

[gratuitous]

19. Are you saying . . . ? {Gasp!}

Well, if Ms. Whitman has any money left over after Jerry Brown eats her lunch in November, maybe she can buy a conscience.

[calimary]

23. That's the one small joy I get out of this particular episode -

the rich, self-flattering republi-CON squanders a pants-load of his/her own money buying a House or Senate or Governor's seat - or (hopefully) NOT!

[glitch]

17. IMO she's Cheney on hormones. They can do a lot with sex and growth hormones these days.

Has anyone ever seen them together?

[kiranon]

20. Megs ads now border on "creepy". Her voice and face remind me

of the teacher no one wanted to get. Does her smile ever change? Creepy.

[athenasatanjesus]

22. What difference does it make if nobody knows who her opponent is.

I have yet to see or hear a single add from her opposition.