Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers:<\/p>\n
* Asked about the Jena Six scandal in Louisiana, which drew 10,000 protestors to the small town yesterday, Fred Thompson said, “I don’t know anything about it<\/a>.” It’s a phrase he seems to repeat quite a bit.<\/p>\n * The most aggressive campaigner on the presidential trail continues to be Elizabeth Edwards, who blasted<\/a> Hillary Clinton yesterday for effectively stealing John Edwards’ healthcare plan. “I don’t call it Senator Clinton’s health care plan,” Edwards said. “I call it John Edwards’ health care plan as delivered by Hillary Clinton. The truth is that anyone who tries to describe Hillary’s health care plan will run through every material part of John’s health care plan. I just have to wonder, if John released his plan at the beginning of February, what took her seven and a half months to endorse it?”<\/p>\n * A day after James Dobson disseminated a document blasting Fred Thompson’s presidential efforts, the actor\/lobbyist\/politician shrugged off<\/a> the significance of the criticism. “If in fact this e-mail … reflects his views, so be it,” Thompson said. “I have a lot of friends who I think are friends of his who have a high regard for me, and I’m very proud of that.” Focus on the Family confirmed that the email is genuine.<\/p>\n * In an apparent attempt to generate some interest in his presidential campaign, Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) unveiled<\/a> the Ultrasound Informed Consent Act yesterday, which would require women seeking abortions to have an ultrasound first. Somehow, I doubt the bill is going to pass, but the measure is about scoring points, not passing laws.<\/p>\n * And finally, several prominent political observers have suggested that John McCain has found his footing and is poised to re-establish himself as a contender, but evidence to the contrary keeps popping up. The very-conservative Washington Times reported<\/a> this week that McCain’s third-quarter fundraising is, once again, awful, with about $3.7 million raised with just two weeks to go. Said one person close to the campaign, “Those are gross numbers, not net. Plus the campaign is carrying $2.5 to $3 million in debt. [He’s] done for.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * Asked about the Jena Six scandal in Louisiana, which drew 10,000 protestors to the small town yesterday, Fred Thompson said, “I don’t know anything about it.” It’s a phrase he seems to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}