This is awesome…
A Republican polling outfit, Harper Polling, has former Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D) leading former Gov. Marc Racicot (R) in a possible U.S. Senate race, 47% to 43% and topping Rep. Steve Daines (R), 50% to 40%. See, I told you we were much better off with Baucus resigning. Indeed, given his corporate whorishness, good riddance to the rubbish that was Baucus.
McKay Coppins notes that with teabagging criticism of the immigration reform effort “grow[ing] louder, many Republican operatives, donors, and consultants are bracing for an outcome that would be even worse, politically, than the demise of the bill: A fierce, national, right-wing backlash that drowns out the GOP’s friendlier voices, dominates Telemundo and Univision, and dashes any hopes the party had of making inroads to the Hispanic electorate by 2016.”
I personally think we are going to get both nightmare outcomes for the GOP. The demise of the bill will be accomplished by having the right act all explicitly racist, anti-immigrant and insane.
Said GOP media strategist Paul Wilson: “We are really balanced here on a little precipice and if this, pardon the pun, goes south, we could be in very serious trouble. If [the legislation] stalls or is killed off by conservatives, we could take the Hispanic community and turn them into the African-American community, where we get four percent on a good day… We could be a lost party for generations.”