Not ready for prime time Pat
Submitted by James on Thu, 06/19/2008 - 5:24pm
Wow. Imagine you're a big deal politician running for governor of a big deal state facing one of the most important issues in history. One would think you'd both to have formed an opinion on the issue. But one would be wrong.
Pat McCrory has not decided yet on offshore oil drilling. A spokeswoman for the Republican gubernatorial nominee said that he did not yet have a position on drilling off North Carolina's coastline.
I guess Pat has to check with Duke Energy to see whether he's allowed to be in favor of ocean pollution, or whether he can get by just being in favor of mercury poisoning.
Yes, sounds like it
Pat needs to check with his corporate lobbyist donors and then figure out how to spin this before he makes his position known. Pathetic.
NCDem Amy on YouTube
Pat's choice clarified.
As the mayor of North Carolina's largest city, which simultaneously commands a pro-business and a social progressive image, McCrory had an unusual opportunity in this race. He even had a head start by virtue of his reputation as a champion of rail transit, despised by the flat-earth crowd in his home town. He could have run an outreach campaign, aggressively going after the forward-looking independents who are not favorably inclined toward Democratic machine politics, but can't swallow Republican right-wing policies.
Too late now. In the same week, he has brought in America's most unpopular Republican--George W. Bush--as his fundraiser-in-chief, and whiffed at a softball pitch opportunity to set himself apart on a major hot-button policy issue--offshore drilling. McCrory is getting his general election campaign underway firmly wed to the Republican hardcore base, throwing aside his potential theme of running as a post-Bush, independent Republican.
Contrast that with Perdue's immediate declaration of "100% opposition" to expanded offshore drilling. For a candidate with such strong business ties as she has, she still had no problem discerning the smart long-term position on this issue.
First impressions are hard to shake. McCrory's campaign will regret this one, the real kick-off to his general election campaign.
Dan Besse
Dan Besse
Worse yet
he's "undecided" on the issue. That smells of opportunism and hedging, not thoughtfulness. He's sounding more and more like Liddy Dole did on the OLF. "Let me study this for awhile."
Duh.
Do good. Be nice. Have fun.
Hmm...
Maybe he'll hold hearings on this issue in the western part of the state /snark.
here's a map to help out with that
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http://twitter.com/Jerimee
In Dole's defense...
She's really not that familiar with the state. I-95, I-40, this highway, that highway, this ocean, that mountain...how is she to know where any of this is?
...maybe we should start sending her North Carolina maps...