Comments on: Senate stealth campaign update: campaign buttons!

By: Roxie

Roxie — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:35:20 +0000

This is such a brilliant idea! I don’t have any experience either, so I am pleased to offer my services as your campaign manager. My skills? I am a cranky old bitch with limited bowel and bladder control. I sleep about 20 hours a day and have never managed anything, unless you count my years of squirrel-chasing and barking at the UPS guy. Also, I have never been to Colorado, but my humans will fly over it next week on their way to the MLA convention in San Francisco. Please send buttons — Moose promises to hand them out at cocktail parties!

Think Little — I LOVE it.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:34:20 +0000

Ahh, the DH. That’s such a 70s thing, isn’t it? (At least, I have no memory of the pre-DH years, and have been partial to AL teams my whole life.)

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:02:24 +0000

A real stance on real issues; that’s the thing. I think the Designated Hitter Rule is going to emerge as a stealth issue in 2010. It technically doesn’t raise any federal questions, of course. But with Denver being a National League town, and with the president likely to drop the White Sox like a hot rock to support the Nationals, I think the caucus will support a return to the old order. Without the DH you lose the double-switch. Then bunting skills start to erode, and, well, life as we know it has been pretty much suspended since the 1980s. (My last trip to Colorado, on Amtrak, we got stopped by a freight, uh, situation. And somewhere east of Fort Morgan, I saw a schoolyard full of jr. high school age girls working on bunting drills for at least an hour! And I got to thinking, there really IS hope in the heartland). Arlen Specter is already flip-flopping on this thing bigtime back this way, and don’t get me going on Bob Casey.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:18:47 +0000

Sure thing, Susan! Oh, and ej: please make sure that all media outlets understand that I'd love to do some interviews, and will be happy to answer any of their questions. Apparently, other "candidates" for Senate special appointments don't think they have to do this.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:36:27 +0000

Send me a supply of the last button for the AHA…

By: Historiann

Historiann — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:14:39 +0000

ej, great idea! Just as we can have “Exellence Without Money,” why not the campaign slogan, “Excellence Without Experience?” I’ll get Bing on the case to make some more buttons.

You’d be great as my Communications Director. You tell students all of the time, “talk to the hand,” and as far as I can tell that’s some pretty good practice for dealing with reporters.

By: ej

ej — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:04:37 +0000

So after you’re in office, can I be your press rep? I’m not exactly sure what a press rep does, and I have absolutely no experience in media, but I think I could be really good at it.