Senate Dems' Targeted Demographic

If you were Lincoln Chafee or George Voinovich, how would you feel when you saw what your "colleagues" on the other side of the aisle were doing?

Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer...are using their political action committees (PACs) to put pressure on Republican Senators to vote against their President's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Kerry is even using his PAC funds to run ads in Rhode Island to convince GOP Senator Lincoln Chaffee to turn his back on President Bush and vote against his nominee's senate conformation.

On his PAC website Kerry writes, "In addition to being vocal about my own opposition to Senator Bolton, I am organizing johnkerry.com activists in Rhode Island to contact Senator Chafee, and I am running online ads in the Rhode Island media."

One thing this reveals is that Kerry, at least, is not confident of being able to pick off one or more RINOs on the Foreign Relations Committee in order to defeat the Bolton pick before it can get to the floor, where there is almost certainly majority support for it. Especially since the three weeks that Senator Voinovich's last-minute stunt purchased for further smearing of Mr. Bolton may be backfiring on Lurch & Co, in addition to their having so little "raw material" to work with.

But doesn't it have to give Chafee at least some pause that as extremist a left-winger as the Boston Balker believes that he can be turned heel so easily? Or is "Linc," like Jim Jeffords four years ago, "flattered" by all the attention?

Surely, though, Senator Voinovich could not mistake the following Babs Boxer taunt, displayed on her PAC's website, for flattery:

Thanks in large part to your efforts, including more than 37,000 emails you sent to your senators in protest, Bolton's nomination was stopped in its tracks. Republican Senator George Voinovich of Ohio joined committee Democrats in urging more careful consideration of John Bolton's nomination, delaying a final vote for three weeks - and I am so grateful for his support on this critical issue. [my emphasis]

She's laughing at you, Senator Voinovich. Barbara Boxer. Barbara F'ing Boxer. A woman who, if black powder were brains, couldn't blow her nose. She may as well have put a "kick me" sign on your back. Which, given that you admitted, upon showing up for the scheduled FRC vote without having bothered to attend any of the testimony that preceded it, that you didn't know the first thing about the nominee or the puerile slanders hurled at him, is probably well-earned, for its Kerryesqueness alone.

Strike that. Affix the "kick me" sign to your belt buckle, with an arrow pointing downward, and then it would be perfect.

It makes me wonder how RINOs can think so highly of themselves and at the same time exhibit so little self-respect.

I don't wonder in Senator Voinovich's case, though; obviously, he's far too clueless to know the difference.