California’s Junior Senator has kept her job, largely by obscuring her record and attacking her opponents. In 1998, when running for reelection, she famously “guarded herself from contact with reporters so she would not have to answer questions about Bill Clinton; the [then-]president’s brother-in-law Tony Rodham was then married to her daughte Nicole.”* (More in a subsequent post on what this says about Ma’am’s hypocrisy.)
Yesterday, while volunteering at Outfest, LA’s gay and lesbian film festival, when chatting with a young gay man, definitely not a Republican, though interested in politics, he mocked Mrs. Boxer for her insistence on being called “Senator.” Seems that whenever people see this clip, they find Ma’am to be petty and offensive. So, I post it in the interest of getting it out there, reminding people of what Ma’am is really like.
Recall, that while Ma’am objected when Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh called her “Ma’am,” she did not object when when Black Chamber of Commerce, President and CEO Harry Alford.
The more people know about this woman and her record, the less chance she stands of reelection.
*Michael Barone, The Almanac of American Politics 2008, 164.
Well, one would hope, but I don’t think I have that much faith in California voters at the moment. It would be nice, but I’m skeptical that it will make a huge difference with the folks who keep sending her back to Washington. I’d love to be proven wrong, though!
Of course, here I am writing from Nevada, where Harry Reid is very unpopular, but where it looks like he will still be re-elected mainly because the Republican party here is in shambles. There are no appealing statewide Republicans at the moment (the only one who shows much promise is the representative from my district, Dean Heller, and I have no idea if he has any interest in the Reid seat. Even so, he’d have to overcome a lot to defeat Reid.
California is beyond the tipping point. There are simply too many who find freedom frightening, racist, irresponsible, politically incorrect, reactionary, religious, environmentally damaging, internationally shameful, etc.
I just wonder how many other Democrats… especially those outside the deep blue urban moonbat ghettos… would be vulnerable if their own voters were properly informed of their votes and general demeanor?
The video with CEO of the Black Chamber of Commerce Alferd, should definitely be used as a commercial during her reelection campaign. I don`t know if it will do any good but I sent an e-mail to Michael Steele and the Republican Chair of California with that suggestion. Democrats are petrified of being labeled as racist. It`s time to take a chapter out of the Alinsky Rules for Radicals.
Is it possible that Senator Boxer is an honorary black? Maybe that is what makes it acceptable for Harry Alford to call her ma´´am. She might have worked hard for that.
What struck me most was the tone and attitude Boxer pulls here. She’s posturing as the lord and boss of the testifiers, as if they are her cleaning crew. I’ve never allowed anyone to address me in such a demeaning way, and obviously Alford doesn’t stand for it, either. He, the General, and Boxer are PEERS in the great American experiment, each playing his own part. She is in NO position to talk down to anyone, least of all a Chamber of Commerce organization that ensures the market and growth environment that fattens government coffers and Boxer’s salary.
We had a most wonderful congressman in our district ….until an ACORN-like redistricting put him out of a job.
It is so gerrymandered now I doubt a Republican could even win…..last election none even tried.
As for BBoxer, she’s a known incompetent who lets her staff do all of her work.
But her re-election until she’s tired of it seems assured, sadly.
I know I’ll never vote for her, but I feel really outnumbered around here.
#7 – Mac, what you described is typical of the Dhimmicrat Party’s mentality. They think it is their birthright to tell you what to do and how to do it.
Regards,
Peter H.
Incidentally, Barbara Bush had a wonderful epigram about Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 that is also apropos for Ma’am Boxer: “I can’t say what she is but it rhymes with rich.”
Regards,
Peter H.