I got word over the weekend that Democrat oppo-researchers, in trying to grunt out a hit piece against Stewart Mills, GOP-endorsed candidate in CD8, “quoted” Mills’ appearance with me last January on the Northern Alliance Radio Network.
The Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) released this exceptionally puerile hit piece on Mills last week.
No, I said “puerile”:
Green Bay Packers fan and millionaire Stewart Mills III emerged from hiding – briefly – to reports in the Minneapolis Star Tribune that he sold millions of dollars worth of cars using stimulus money. As a candidate, Mills has opposed the stimulus.
The state’s economy is stagnant, we’re heading for deficit – and the Democrat Party is targeting voters whose votes turn on f****ng NFL team loyalty?
This is the mentality of the voter the Democrat Party is aiming for?
The ad tries to jack Mills up because the family’s car business bought vehicles using Cash for Clunkers money.
The nerve; in a system designed to promote and reward rent-seeking, people seek rent!
Of course, that was four solid years before Mills decided to run for office. Y’know – one of those episodes that led him to decide to try, at least, to change things in DC.
Oh, yeah – I’m famous now:
Mills Said the Stimulus was a “Sugar High.” In 2014 Mills said, “The last round of tax spend and borrow stimulus which is nothing but one sugar high after another, negatively affected our part of Minnesota because we had none of the benefits from it, but yet we’re the ones that are going to have to pay the bills.” [Northern Alliance Radio Network with Mitch Berg, 1/4/14]
Wow – oppo researchers were tuned in! I feel…
…dirty.
Oh, yeah – Mills was 100% correct. The stimulus – of which “Cash for Clunkers” was far from the dumbest – was a “sugar high”; it subsidized car purchases in 2009, inducing people to buy buy buy probably earlier than they would have otherwise (the sugar high), meaning they didn’t buy later (the crash).
It’s how every “stimulus” works.
Mills was right. The DCCC is wrong.
Someone tell their oppo weasel I said so. And that I’m a Bears fan.
I am a Green Bay and resident of Minnesota. Is the Democrat party saying I am a worthless piece of shit? Stay classy Dems!
and the Democrat Party is targeting voters whose votes turn on f****ng NFL team loyalty?
They don’t care how stupid (or how dishonest, or how alive for that matter….but that’s another topic) a voter is, if they can do or say something, anything, to get that voter to vote for them, it’s another vote for them. Bonus: If the voter IS stupid enough to vote based on something as trivial and unimportant as pro-sports loyalty, then there’s a good chance the Dems can keep that voter on the hook for future votes.
It’s the same with corporate inversion. The Democrats are telling people that inversion means rich corporations don’t pay income tax in their U.S. income. Yes, low information voters do decide every election.
And that’s the problem. You have 10% of the voters who are clueless. Actually many more than that, but the others vote straight party no matter what. So you have to do really stupid things to try to convince them to vote for your guy (or gal).
Given the way the ViQueens are playing this year, the fact that Mills is a Packer-Backer might work in his favor……or that our resident Emanuel Goldstein (Gold-Berg?) cheers on the Staleys, for that matter.
And yes, I guess a Mills car dealership could have ignored the “Destroy your perfectly good automobile” program and risked banktruptcy in the same way that corn farmers can do the same by ignoring subsidies, but…..somehow I don’t see the Democrats insisting on this for their own.
Not only is Mills right about the Cash for Clunkers, but recent analysis shows the program cost automakers $3 billion in lost revenue. There was no net increase in sales because of the program and consumers purchased more fuel-efficient, and cheaper, vehicles than they would have. Why buy an Impala when the Malibu will get you a subsidy?
Just another example of the bad consequences of Obama policies.
http://m1.marketwatch.com/articles/BL-MWEB-6894?mobile=y&mobile=y
Moose, it also hurt the poor by junking nearly 700,000 perfectly good vehicles they’d have loved to drive, and it also hurt the environment because cars could not be simply recycled. The government required that they be shredded–huge energy and pollution cost to that one.
http://news.yahoo.com/why-cash-clunkers-hurt-environment-more-helped-024848694.html
Why do Democrats hate auto makers, the poor, and the environment?
“Moose, it also hurt the poor by junking nearly 700,000 perfectly good vehicles they’d have loved to drive”
It also drove up the cost of used cars (by taking so many of them off the market) and repairs (by taking all those shredded junk parts off the market).
I’d noticed the “Northern Alliance Radio” source tag on one of the oil heiress’s attack ad on Mills and wondered what that was all about. Thanks for the explanation.
If I were Rick Nolan and the best the goon squad at the oil heiress’s Bitter Minnesota could come up with on my behalf was that my opponent inherited a lot of money and had good hair – well I’d hope to have a good record to run on. Given that his ads are nothing but him shooting a rifle and walking with a dog (neither of which he owns, I imagine), I guess he doesn’t want to showcase his on again/off again support of Polymet.
“You may be unemployed due to me… but Stewart Mills family owns a car dealership and he has great hair!”
Don’t they call three strikes in a row a turkey? Cost the federal government a ton of money, cost the auto makers a ton of revenue, and drove up the price of used cars and parts for low-wage workers by a ton of money. Obama’s presidency in a nutshell!