Nattering Nabobs of Negatism
By Dana Milbank, Published: February 10
How many of you, Scott Rasmussen asked the crowd at this weeks Conservative Political Action Conference, have ever mocked or made fun of the presidents 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, Id like to say thats 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.
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Milbank is spot on with this.
PSPS
(13,609 posts)HubertHeaver
(2,522 posts)Extra points--who was the speechwriter?
Jim__
(14,082 posts)reACTIONary
(5,771 posts)... totally incapable of writing a simple, direct sentence.
I saw the quote and the moniker "mad in MARYLAND" and knew Agnew would come up.