Dem Hypocrisy Abounds In Lowden Attack

I'm not sure what's more troubling here, the incredible hypocrisy underlying Democrat attacks on potential Harry Reid challenger, Sue Lowden of Nevada, or the fact that, every time a Republican woman raises her head she's unfairly attacked. And leave it to liberal Rachel Maddow to lead the charge. No air time for a bit on Charlie Rangel, I'd bet. As you'll see from links and video below, they want desperately to link Lowden to John Ensign, all in an effort to protect the oh so vulnerable Harry Reid.

So, what has Reid himself had to say about Ensign, regardless of what you want to make of his troubles? Nada, zilch!

It was part of an ongoing attempt by Democrats to tie Ensign, the Nevada Republican embroiled in an ongoing scandal, to Lowden, who is seeking the Republican Party’s nomination to challenge Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

But Ensign still has at least one other friend in Nevada — Reid.

Through a spokesman Reid said that Ensign’s affair with the wife of a staff member, who also worked for him, is a “personal matter.” That despite a report in The New York Times last week raising allegations that Ensign helped secure employment for Doug Hampton, a former top aide, who apparently went on to lobby the senator’s office in possible violation of the federal one-year lobbying ban. Ensign had been having an affair with Hampton’s wife, Cynthia.

You got that? Reid, being a part of the old boys club, well, he's allowed to remain silent. None of the members of the party for the most part protecting Charlie Rangel even care. But a Republican woman and former GOP chair who looks like she could beat Reid? Well, they simply can't allow that. She's expected to denounce Ensign right out of the gate, even though she's more focused on her own challenges in beating Harry Reid. Real nice. So much for fairness and equality, I guess.

And leave it to the Washington Post to spout the party line without making much noise about Harry Reid ... or Charlie Rangel. I looked at this race because I want to see Reid go down in flames. It looks to me as though Lowden might be just the gal to burn him. Keep an eye on this race.

Former Nevada Republican Party Chairwoman Sue Lowden entered the race against Sen. Harry Reid (D) last week to much fanfare from national operatives who saw her as the strongest candidate in what almost certainly would be a referendum on the Senate Majority Leader.

But, Lowden is already running into trouble for her willingness to stand behind embattled Sen. John Ensign (R) and Gov. Jim Gibbons (R).

"I never called on them to resign," Lowden said in an interview with the Fix last week. "I am supportive of both of them."

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has seized on those words of support in the wake of revelations -- first reported by the New York Times -- that Ensign pulled strings to find his mistress's husband a job without disclosing all of the details of that relationship.

"Sue Lowden's support of John Ensign may have fundraising value to her, but it is a reflection of her own character and fitness for office," said DSCC communications director Eric Schultz. "She has shown more fidelity to him, than he has shown to his own wife."

YOUCH!

"Youch!" Nothing says that quite like Rachel Maddow, assuming you can stand to watch, of course. Hypocrite.

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Comments

[JustOneMan]

"Rachel, you ignorant slut." Dan Ackroyd

[david r]

Disgusting muff diver.

[Ad rem]

Ugh....looks like she runs her own carpet cleaning business.

[man_in_tx]

Listening to and watching Ms. Maddow produces in me a physical reaction similar to the one I experience when I hear nails scratching on a blackboard.

[redc1c4]

i would suggest that, in the future, for the sake of accuracy, the phrase to use in reference to the Raving Madcow should be "..assuming you can stand to watch, of coarse."

[Lowden Report Card - F]

Lowden report card: F for failed leadership

Gov. Gibbons handpicked Sue Lowden to chair the Nevada Republican Party, touting her leadership as the key to turning the party around. Now that she’s resigning more than two years later, what do the Republicans have to show for it? The Nevada GOP is broke and disorganized.

Party Building: F
When Gibbons handpicked Lowden to head the Nevada GOP in April 2007, voter registration was dead even between Republicans and Democrats. One year later, Republicans were down 57,000 voters. By election day 2008, the Democratic lead had grown to more than 100,000 voters, including an advantage in traditionally Republican Washoe County.

In a year and a half, Lowden took the GOP from an even playing field to a more than 8 point voter registration disadvantage. And today voters continue to run from the Republican Party, with Democrats registering four voters for every one the Republicans register.

Organization: F
When Lowden took over as chairwoman, the party had an office and permanent staff. As Lowden resigns as chairwoman, the party has neither. One national political writer who swung through town found that there was no answer at Clark County GOP headquarters, where the state party is currently squatting, and messages go unreturned.

Lowden even lost control of her own state convention after Ron Paul supporters accused her of taking the process out of their hands and trying to railroad her handpicked national delegates through. The dispute created a schism in the party that continues to this day. When her job was to unite, she divided, leaving a fractured and broken party structure.

2008 Election: F
When Sue Lowden took over as chairwoman, Republicans controlled the state senate and had two Clark County Commissioners and a three-term incumbent in Congressional District 3. And Nevada had voted for Bush for two terms.

“As a party we have a lot to do in preparation for the important 2008 election cycle,” Lowden said when Gibbons anointed her. “I pledge to roll up my sleeves and get right to work so we can elect good Republican candidates up and down the ticket.”

But on election night 2008, Democrats took control of the State Senate for the first time in almost two decades, gained a supermajority in the State Assembly, took control of all seven Clark County Commission seats, defeated Jon Porter and took control of Congressional District 3 for the first time since its inception and delivered Nevada’s electoral votes for Pres. Barack Obama by an historic margin of 12 percentage points.

Sue Lowden took the podium at a morose “victory” party in Las Vegas. She called the year ahead, “a rebuilding year.” But Lowden isn’t sticking around to take on the rebuilding.

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[Bruce, NV]

Tarkanian is a much better candidate to overturn Ried. Lowden will not resonate, simple as that.
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