Ads Featuring Bush Praise Of Democrat Nelson Begin Airing

Democrats are playing the bipartisan, populist card for Senator Ben Nelson via television ads that show President Bush praising Nelson for putting the nation ahead of party politics.

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In one visit to Omaha, Bush offered high praise of Nelson. “He is a man with whom I can work, a person who is willing to put partisanship aside to focus on what’s right for America,” Bush said.

Nelson has been subject to a tactic used elsewhere in the country, as Ricketts and Republican Senator Chuck Hagel have argued that a vote for Nelson would ultimately be a vote to let Senators Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton run the Senate.

A former two-term governor, Nelson noted that he voted in support of Bush policy – particularly on tax cuts and the Iraq war – more often than any other Senate Democrat.

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On Tuesday, Nelson reported that he was the only Democrat among a group of Republicans who met with Bush to discuss the president’s wish for congressional approval of line-item veto power. Nelson said he supports the idea.

Although Nelson disagrees with Bush on a liberalized immigration policy, he may have a political advantage, believing that most voters share his view that tightened border security should be the center piece of any revision in immigration law.

http://nebraska.statepaper.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/06/28/44a2ac274886b

:puke:

Nebraska ain't California. I can't say that it would make me vote for him, but on the other hand I'd take him in a flash over the two pukes I have in Georgia....

So for every GOP vote Nelsen obtains, he turns away two progressives. Hopefully for his sake, Nebraska is full of DLCers and GOP.

It's better than the alternative & at least he has a "D" by his name even if it is a lie.

A bushbot is a bushbot is a bushbot. He will vote R no matter how much voting R puts his tax dollars into the wealthy's pockets.

A vote for a GOP-like D is just a vote for an R, only worse because it is a big lie. You heard Nelson, he has and will continue to vote with Bush each and every time.

The 'progressive' vote is NOT what you could call large in a state that's mostly rural and largely populated by German-Swedish Lutheran farmers. (The only time in the history of the state that a Democrat won Nebraska's electoral votes was in 1964.)

So the Democratic party DLCers lose. There are plenty of progressives in Nebraska, but they want a Progressive not a GOP-lite.

Progressive Organizations in Nebraska
http://irregularnews.com/states/nebraska.html

Nebraska Green Party

Nebraskans for Peace

Nebraska ACLU

Progressive Omaha

Immigrant Rights Networkof Iowa and Nebraska

Nebraska Equal Justice Clearinghouse

Campus Freethought Alliance at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Campus Atheists and Agnostics at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Rationalists, Empiricists, and Skeptics of Nebraska

Prairie Peace Park

Central Nebraska Peace Workers of Nebraska

Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust

Audubon Nebraska

Platte River Endangered Species Partnership

Nebraska Sierra Club

Nebraska NOW

PFLAG Lincoln Cornhusker

GLBTA Student Resource Center at University Nebraska Lincoln

Omaha Nebraska Gay Pride

Out in Omaha

PFLAG Omaha

Nebraskans Against the Death Penalty

League of Women Voters of Nebraska

League of Women Voters of Omaha

Omaha reAct

What percentage of the total electorate? There are only 361 registered Greens, for instance, in Nebraska, out of an electorate of 1,140,741. This should tell you something. There are, in contrast, 578,916 registered Republicans, or more than 50% of the total. And 184,119 independents, more of whom lean Republican. These are cold, hard facts. This is NOT a state where a progressive agenda can get much traction, no matter how many progressive splinter groups with small to miniscule numbers of members there are. The only way for progressives to have any influence is for all of these microscopic groups to band together in common cause, and attempt to use their newfound weight to influence Democratic politics at the local level with an eye on the futrure. As it stands, a candidate like Nelson is the only sort who could get elected in a statewide race.

why Nelson's approval ratings are so high? SurveyUSA has it at 72%, (Feingold is at 50% in WI, by the way). And before you claim there is some sort of poll conspiracy, SUSA is the company that has those unflattering state by state poll numbers for Bush.

oh, wait... you mean that the democrats ran those ads????

Video of Bush giving war speeches...but the voice coming out of his mouth is Joe Liebermans! As the commercial closes, the portrait of Lieberman gradually morphs into a picture of Bush. We need more democrats with big cajones like that!

Republicans, so he's not someone you can count on when you need the numbers. It would be nice if red state voters pulled their heads out into the sunlight every so often so we could put up a bona fide Democrat.

Pat Roberts loses his committee chair, and we GET DEMS WITH SUBPOENA POWER

So I guess I could put up with Nelson if his re-election meant we got Dem Committee Chairs.

whatever gives us the majority. WE want to be controlling all those committees, WE want to finally have a say in our government. Politics is not about individuals, it's a team sport.

to watch those ads down here.

History won't be so kind.