The Coming DNC Disaster

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Michelle Malkin:

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There aren't Greek columns tall or wide enough to camouflage Barack Obama's impending North Carolina catastrophe. In September, the campaigner-in-chief will travel to Charlotte for his party's presidential nominating convention. For once, the incurable jetsetter may wish he had stayed home.

Obama's stage managers envision a triumphant, unifying coronation reminiscent of their 2008 DNC production in Denver. But the southern swing state is turning into a Democratic disaster zone.

Start with the North Carolina Democratic Party. At the state party convention last week, Obama for America was AWOL. The glaring absence of high-level national Obama surrogates was noted "as odd," according to the Charlotte News and Observer. There's good reason to steer clear. The party is embroiled in a sordid sex scandal that won't go away.

Earlier this year, former party communications staffer Adriadn Ortega, 26, accused former NCDP executive director Jay Parmley of repeated sexual harassment and physical groping. Documents leaked to the conservative Daily Caller news site revealed a hush-hush financial settlement involving the two men. Ortega was fired; Parmley resigned; state Democrats went into panic mode.

"If this hits the media, the Democratic Party, our candidates and our credibility are doomed in this election," a local candidate complained to NCDP chairman David Parker. A defiant Parker resisted statewide calls (including a desperate request from outgoing Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue) to resign. Ortega filed a defamation suit against Parker and the NCDP last week. The White House, which has trumpeted its stand against workplace harassment, has been mute on the story.

Other Democrats are boycotting North Carolina to avoid an entirely different taint: the scandal-plagued president himself. By TheDaily.com's count, at least seven Democratic officials will skip Obama-palooza: New York Democratic Reps. Bill Owens and Kathy Hochul; Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Mark Critz; three endangered Democratic politicians from West Virginia, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, Sen. Joe Manchin, and Rep. Nick Rahall; and Utah Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson.

The Democratic boycotters have dinged Obama on everything from his election-year illegal alien amnesty power grab to his failed jobs programs to his destructive war on coal. While "Forward!" may be the official Obama campaign slogan, "Back Away!" is quickly becoming the dissenting Democrats' rallying cry........

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At this juncture I rate it a 50% shot that the dems throw Bork under the bus and run somebody else, most likely Stenny Hoyer.

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Townhall . . . ah-hahahahahahahahahaha . . .

You wish . . .

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@Setanta,

Watch it Set, or Ganja will come at you with a 'Merikan Thumper' rebuttal.

Rap

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Probably something witty like his "stupid pills" image, or the Terminator clip . . .

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we'd be much better off if every politician's mother had undergone a D & C Wink

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@djjd62,

EVERY!!!

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@RABEL222,

yes

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@djjd62,

60 Minutes ran their piece on politicians' taking advantage of insider trading again this past Sunday. It was first aired last November and it's sad commentary to think it took a TV show to close a vile loophole that made insider trading a viable option and pathway to wealth for these political goons, but would land ordinary people (who pay their salaries) in prison for years and years.

Second viewing was even more maddening, since this rerun included mention of the Stock Act as a remedy (and even my neighbor's 5-year old could figure out ways to circumvent that).

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@gungasnake,

Why should they worry about the scandals afflicting the NC Democratic Party?

Now if Florida's Republican Party was riddled with scandals that made an embarrassing contrat to their platform, the MSM would be running with the story from non to night come convention time in Tampa.

It won't even come up in the MSM coverage of the convention in Charlotte.

Now they will cover demonstrations related to the recent vote on gay marriage, even if they consist of no more than a dozen protestors. During that coverage they will go out of their way to contrast the evolved position of the president with the red-neck bigots masquerading as an enlighten Blue State.

You can also bet that in their coverage they will not mention that a large majority of NC blacks supported the gay marriage ban.

The likely Big Loser in this affair is the city of Charlotte. Having lived there for 20+ years, I can tell you that the movers and shakers in the city are obsessed with Charlotte being considered a "World Class City."

I didn't have to check in on the Charlotte Observer to know that the city has been trembling with anticipation of their moment in the sun, when major networks do human interest pieces on the nightlife of Uptown (Charlotte has ever been too perky to have a Downtown) and the quality of life in this New South town that has all of the advantages of Atlanta, but none of the problems.

Don't get me wrong, I loved Charlotte while I lived there, and I'm considering moving back, but this obsession with the spotlight has not been a good thing, and unless NC shakes off the influence of transplanted NE Yankees and returns to its conservative political roots, I probably will be moving just south; over the border to SC.

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@Finn dAbuzz,

SC is a vastly better bet. Other than that, what the article was describing went way beyond a few picayune sex scandals or any such:

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.....Thousands of anarchists, socialists and professional agitators also plan on protesting in Charlotte. After giving Mr. Hollow Hope and Change a first-term pass, self-declared progressives can't ignore Team Obama's in-your-face decision to deliver his presidential nomination acceptance speech at bailed-out Bank of America Stadium. As I've reported previously:

--The financially troubled bank snagged a middle-of-the-night, taxpayer-funded $45 billion banking bailout in 2008 and an estimated $931 billion in secret federal emergency loans.

--In 2008, B of A's political action committee gave its biggest contributions to Obama totaling $421,000.

--After purchasing junk mortgage company Countrywide, BofA agreed to pay $50 million in restitution payments for Countrywide subprime loan fraudster and Democratic fat cat Angelo Mozilo and one of his underlings......

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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/06/another_sign_dems_are_writing_off_obama.html

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June 22, 2012
Another sign Dems are writing off Obama

The grown-ups in the Democratic Party are looking beyond what they anticipate will be Barack Obama's single term, and positioning themselves to survive the aftermath. How else to explain the words of "Obama surrogate" Ed Rendell, former governor of Pennsylvania and Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Hillary Clinton acolyte? Bill McMorris of the Washington Free Beacon reports:

A top Obama surrogate said the president will not have to worry about a swooning media or crowds overcome by fainting spells in 2012.
"The media and the population saw him as this transformative figure [in 2008]; he was the first serious black candidate, a new, young, promising figure," said former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell. "People have sobered to that; the newness has faded and people now see him as another practical politician."
Rendell is known for being blunt, a theme he touches on in his new book, A Nation of Wusses, and a trait that has gotten him in hot water on the campaign trail.
Rendell was a passionate supporter of Hillary Clinton in 2008, and is reputed to remain close to both of the Clintons. As I wrote 11 days ago:
Panic is setting in among the people who ran the Democratic Party prior to the miraculous arrival on the scene of Barack Hussein Obama and the perfect storm of events that propelled him into the White House.
These people, starting with Bill Clinton, the master Democratic politician of our era, can read the tea leaves

The Democratic scorpions are sharing a bottle. Couldn't happen to a nicer party....

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/06/another_sign_dems_are_writing_off_obama.html#ixzz1yZcMkYWd

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