Coons on Hardball.
A stellar performance by Chris Coons.
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“Chirs Coons” LOL
I’m glad Coons is finally getting attention.
Awesome introduction to Coons. The opening clip of O’Donnell saying that any mention of her background amounts to an attack is hilarious.
Excellent appearance. You can tell that he and his advisors learned a lesson from the DE GOP and Castle’s (mis)behavior during the primary.
I would have liked to see Chris ask a follow-up question about which Obama policies he disagrees with. He would definitely have asked a GOP candidate that.
Great job Chris.
Nice! So she can make outlandish claims along with her nutty brethren, but she is off limits? I feel good about her self destructing on her own….
“Is she qualified?”
This is why I don’t watch Hardball.
How long before the national press figures out where she actually lives?
Turns out you only have to “inhabit” the state at the time of the election. So if hell freezes over, she can take office legally.
I know, but it would still be news.
He should go on a channel that has more than 20 viewers…
Wow, he’s really come a long way on his media skills since I interviewed him in May. This is good work.
(Also he’s improved some of his policy positions since then, but that’s a different story.)
So, I’m really the only one who saw that his name was misspelled?
Coons does a great job here and it previews the knd of judo he is going to have to pull off during this campaign. The O’Donnell camp is like so sicfi monster that lives off the energy people throw at it. Instead of rhetorical bombs and bullets, Coon needs to slowly and patiently starve the beast.
I like the direct answers didn’t dodge one question
I like the direct answers didn’t dodge one question
Hope someone asks him about this…
“My friends now joke that something about Kenya, maybe the strange diet, or the tropical sun, changed my personality; Africa to them seems a catalytic converter that takes in clean-shaven, clear-thinking Americans and sends back bearded Marxists,…”
The interesting thing about O’Donnells position that ANY question about her background is an attack is that she might pull it off in this media environment. Does anyone know who the questioners will be tonight.
I don’t know, Jason. I’m hoping to attend. Does anyone know if she’s even going to show up?
miscreant, what are you talking about?
A Price, Miscreant is quoting from Chris Coons essay “The Making of a Bearded Marxist”.
You didn’t know?
An essay written for a college he actually attended and got a degree from. Not that that matters or anything…
As opposed to Christine’s essay, ” “
And he’s talking about a transformative experience in the Peace Corps, for which I have the highest respect.
Sorry, Geezer, if I seemed short on qualifiers, so early in the coffee acquisition process. 😀
If Chris is attacked for an essay he wrote in college, which is part of his personal background, then that opens the door for us to unload the volumes of material we have on Christine.
This is a two way street, if Chris is going to be attacked on his personal background, we will destroy her with hers.
Oh noez! Not another Kenyan, anti-colonial!
In college,Coons was treveling abroad and writing thoughtful essays about his experience.
In Christine’s college experience, she was experimenting with casual sex, skipping her final required courses, and running away from dunning notices.
Bring it on, bitches.
No we won’t, Del Dem.
We won’t because if girls are mean to girls, they’re mean girls, and if boys are mean to girls, they’re bullies. And neither thing will get Chris elected.
People like to hear about THEMSELVES, as long as it’s positive. So the campaign MUST center on “Why this sweetheart of a man will help your amazing and remarkable family have a better life”.
That’s the message.
Thanks a lot, Harry F-ng Reid.
Uh…Harry Reid
LOL. I wonder if Reid would have referred to Chris as his “pet” if he was 18 inches taller.
I can’t wait to hear what he calls Matt Denn.
LOL. I wonder if Reid would have referred to Chris as his “pet” if he was 18 inches taller.
It’s a harsh world. 😀
Who’s taller, Coons or Denn?
Heragain is exactly right. Have the attacks worked against Sharron Angle? Did they work for Castle? The way to go negative is to emphasize the America these folks want: No solution to the health care problem, cutting taxes as a solution to both a moribund economy and an enormous deficit. Their “solutions” sound like the Big Rock Candy Mountain.
Curly on WGOP had a field day with the “pet” line, but he took it too far:”I guess if he’s his pet, they just feed him a few times a day and then he goes and drops a load in the litter box.”
Curly is a mediocre talk show host and a pig.
As if Harry Reid hasn’t already insulted Democrats enough.
I think the line I would have like to hear Coons say when Matthews asked if she’s qualified is “it’s up to the voters to decide if she’s qualified to serve Delaware in the Senate,” then list his own qualifications.
Yes, I thought the pet line was demeaning but Harry Reid does have a bit of a tin ear on these things.
” An article Democrat Chris Coons wrote for his college newspaper may not go over so well in corporation-friendly Delaware, where he already faces an uphill battle for Vice President Joe Biden’s old Senate seat.
Interesting background:
“The title? “Chris Coons: The Making of a Bearded Marxist.”
“In the article, Coons, then 21 years old and about to graduate from Amherst College, chronicled his transformation from a sheltered, conservative-minded college student who had worked for former GOP Delaware Sen. William Roth and had campaigned for Ronald Reagan in 1980 into a cynical young adult who was distrustful of American power and willing to question the American notion of free enterprise.”
ah. Thanks miscreant.
no, heragain i did not know. First information gap of my life.