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As has been pointed out frequently over recent years, CA-10 has become a Democratic stronghold, with a registration advantage of D+18 and a Cook PVI of D+11. So what do those numbers mean in the context of the current special Congressional election? Well, they mean that it is a fact -- you can take it to the bank -- that our next member of Congress will be a Democrat.
So if you run a nutty right-wing PAC, what do you do with that lemon besides just suck on it? Well, here's how Move America Forward (MAF), "part of a pro-war lobby... headed by California Republican activists, talk show hosts and staff members of the public relations firm Russo Marsh & Rogers, which has strong ties to the Republican Party," is attempting to make lemonade.
The MAF Freedom PAC outlined their plan in a recent email that seriously reminds me of the underpants gnomes' business strategy:
- Collect underpants
- ?
- Profit!!!
Only in the case of MAF Freedom PAC, the strategy looks more like this:
- Force a November run-off
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- Victory!!!
I'll let them explain the plan:
Conservatives looking to take back California's 10th Congressional district from liberals are gaining strength, thanks to voter anger at President Obama's agenda to socialize medicine and hurt veterans' healthcare, among other issues. But most important are the men who are challenging the front-runner, liberal California's Lt. Gov. John Garamendi.
Republicans David Harmer and Chris Bunch, a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, can force the six liberals who are running in the 10th District to face a runoff in November -- but they need our help now to force a run-off election and victory. We can stop the Obama Agenda by taking back this congressional seat, which sits across the Bay Area from Nancy Pelosi's own district.
"This is a district that can swing," political consultant Ray McNally said. "There's a lot of uncertainty and voter angst out in the country, and Democrats are losing ground."
Yeah, right.
Meanwhile, there's a second CA-10 fact that you can take to the bank: no candidate in the September 1 election will reach the 50%+1 threshold necessary to avoid a November run-off. There are quite simply too many strong candidates for any one of them to reach that level.
And that's the beauty of the MAF Freedom PAC scam. They know they're helpless to influence the ultimate outcome of this race; yet they also sense an opportunity for self-promotion and enrichment.
DONATE NOW TO STOP THE LIBERALS IN CALIF.
Now is the time to strike. The nonpartisan SurveyUSA firm shows Garamendi with support of only 26 percent of respondents. His next closest Democrat contender has 15 percent. The only way Obama's candidate can win is with 50 percent of the vote plus one. If we SPLIT THE VOTE by flooding the polls with votes for any candidate other than the liberal leader, John Garamendi, (regardless of whether they are for Harmer or Bunch) and Garamendi gets even 49.999% of the vote, WE FORCE A RUNOFF where it will be a clear choice.
We can keep Garamendi from going automatically to Washington and force him to square off in a battle against a conservative who CAN win and show the rest of the country that Obama's radical agenda is running out of support!
WE CAN STOP THE LIBERAL AGENDA by getting involved now, just a week before the Special Election. If we do not act now, we will allow the left-wingers to continue their march toward Obama's radical agenda of socialism and the destruction of the American way.
Naturally, the email contains a money ask, although you may have noticed that MAF doesn't say how the funds raised from this letter will be used to achieve so-called victory in CA-10. Yet by setting the bar for this "victory" so ridiculously low, they've guaranteed that they'll be able to return to their list next week trumpeting their success. I can see it now...
YOU DID IT! Thanks to your donations, conservatives were able to stop Obama's liberal agenda and FORCE A RUNOFF in November where WE CAN WIN!
DONATE NOW TO STOP THE LIBERALS IN CALIF.
And as P.T. Barnum famously never said...
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