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madinmaryland

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Sat Feb 11, 2012, 04:07 PM Feb 2012

Nattering Nabobs of Negatism

By Dana Milbank, Published: February 10

“How many of you,” Scott Rasmussen asked the crowd at this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference, “have ever mocked or made fun of the president’s call for hope and change? Raise your hands.”

Most people in the Marriott Wardman Park hotel ballroom raised their hands. There were cheers and whoops.

“With all due respect,” the conservative pollster and commentator told them, “I’d like to say that’s really stupid.”

This time, there was uncomfortable laughter. “Voters are looking for hope and change as much today as they were in 2008,” Rasmussen explained, and “you ought to be encouraging Republican candidates, people you support, to offer that positive step forward.”

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/at-cpac-republicans-become-nattering-nabobs-of-negativism/2012/02/10/gIQAYhI44Q_story.html?hpid=z6

Milbank is spot on with this.

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Nattering Nabobs of Negatism (Original Post) madinmaryland Feb 2012 OP
negativism PSPS Feb 2012 #1
And who said this? HubertHeaver Feb 2012 #2
The swindling surreptitious Spiro. - n/t Jim__ Feb 2012 #3
William Safire... reACTIONary Feb 2012 #4

reACTIONary

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4. William Safire...
Sat Feb 11, 2012, 05:36 PM
Feb 2012

... totally incapable of writing a simple, direct sentence.

I saw the quote and the moniker "mad in MARYLAND" and knew Agnew would come up.

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