Thread: Wilson Raises over $250K less than opponent

S.C.'s Wilson Rakes In $750,000 in Less Than 48 Hours;

Opponent Tops $1 Million





With a political arms race in full force, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) has raised almost $750,000 in less than 48 hours since his shout of "You lie!" to President Obama during the Wednesday address to Congress, almost matching the Internet-fueled haul of his likely Democratic opponent.



A senior GOP official said Wilson, who apologized to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel after the health-care speech but has since refused a more public apology, has turned his own previous sleepy campaign machine into an Web-friendly effort. Just as liberals have poured cash into the campaign of Rob Miller, who lost to Wilson by almost eight percentage points in 2008, conservatives are pouring contributions into Wilson's campaign at an astonishing rate.



Miller, a former Iraq war veteran, has raised more than $1 million for his 2010 rematch with Wilson, according to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.



After liberal Internet activists turned Miller into a cause celebre in their effort to extract revenge on Wilson, conservatives joined the fray. Wilson, who hired GOP web strategist David All, now has ads running on conservative-leaning web sites such as the Drudge Report.



http://voices.washingtonpost.com/cap...750000_in.html





Who's really winning this partisan bitchfest?

The politicians who have fully paid health insurance and own more shit than you.

[quote name='Inkslinger' date='12 September 2009 - 12:12 PM' timestamp='1252782759' post='20523']

S.C.'s Wilson Rakes In $750,000 in Less Than 48 Hours;

Opponent Tops $1 Million





With a political arms race in full force, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) has raised almost $750,000 in less than 48 hours since his shout of "You lie!" to President Obama during the Wednesday address to Congress, almost matching the Internet-fueled haul of his likely Democratic opponent.



A senior GOP official said Wilson, who apologized to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel after the health-care speech but has since refused a more public apology, has turned his own previous sleepy campaign machine into an Web-friendly effort. Just as liberals have poured cash into the campaign of Rob Miller, who lost to Wilson by almost eight percentage points in 2008, conservatives are pouring contributions into Wilson's campaign at an astonishing rate.



Miller, a former Iraq war veteran, has raised more than $1 million for his 2010 rematch with Wilson, according to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.



After liberal Internet activists turned Miller into a cause celebre in their effort to extract revenge on Wilson, conservatives joined the fray. Wilson, who hired GOP web strategist David All, now has ads running on conservative-leaning web sites such as the Drudge Report.



http://voices.washingtonpost.com/cap...750000_in.html





Who's really winning this partisan bitchfest?

The politicians who have fully paid health insurance and own more shit than you.

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I'm in the wrong bi'ness. I wanna hollar spazoid dumb shit for a living. Arnold Scwartzenegger's office is less than 2 miles away from my house. Maybe I can go call him something stoopid and become a media pinata. Or maybe answer a question in some unpopular but righty freindly way.



On a non rhetorical note...I don't think Wilson should be made to apologize in front of the house. That's what righties would do if the tables were turned...I think we souldn't stoop.

[quote name='Sam Devine' date='12 September 2009 - 12:44 PM' timestamp='1252784657' post='20529']

I think he owed the President, and this nation, an apology for behaving as though he were 7 and not as a public servant whose livelihood comes from taxes.[/quote]

I think I also worry that too much brow beating can be used by conservative media to accuse the left of trying to distract Americans from the "noble motives of the right"...which are derailing healthcare reform for the good of the American people.

[quote name='jacksbrat' date='12 September 2009 - 02:05 PM' timestamp='1252789507' post='20560']

Wonder why you would like their way of governming. but hate their health care system?

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Why not...righties drive through life under the influence of impaired thinking, exhibiting sloppy reasoning, with highly compartmentalized beliefs, double standards, hypocrisy, self-blindness, a profound ethnocentrism, and a ferocious dogmatism that makes it unlikely anyone could ever change their minds with evidence or logic. Cherry picking what they do and do not like about the British government, and presenting that as evidence that they're right about something is to be expected.

[quote name='Formative Years' date='12 September 2009 - 07:26 PM' timestamp='1252797993' post='20643']

I don't hate their health care system. You mistake me for a conservative.



Though even if I didn't like their health care system, I fail to see why I couldn't like the way they interact in Parliament.

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I see the drawback in the British system as being more difficult to present an argument clearly.