KDP Staffers Swing...and Miss
Late last week, Kansas' most stale political blog, BlueTideRising, and the Kansas Democratic Party staffers that are behind it, stepped up to the plate in an effort to identify one of the authors behind this blog. We'd like to commend the Blue Boys for putting themselves out there with a heart-felt shot at our identities. Sadly, when the dust from their weak-minded stab cleared, the Boys in Blue fell flat on their faces (is anyone really surprised?).
Sorry, boys - Kansas G.O.P. Executive Director Christian Morgan is not one of the folks you're after. There, we said it. Morgan is not one of this blog's 'Concerned Kansans,' (though if this finds your eye, Christian, feel free to join the club!)
While normally we wouldn't dignify such an intellectually uninformed post with a response, we found this very indicative of the current state of the Kansas Democratic Party.
Ask yourself this - why would the K.D.P. staffer that manages BlueTideRising waste time attacking Christian Morgan? Is it because he truly believed that Morgan, the ranking employee for Kansas' Republican Party, was behind StayRed? Probably not (though we would never put any intellectual flub past the K.D.P. and their dim-witted rank and file).
More than likely, this recent posting illustrates the uneasy fog that Larry Gates and crew have found surrounding themselves. Despite the fact that they absolutely throttled most Kansas Republicans in 2006 - both in ballot boxes and bank accounts - they simply can't make headway anywhere outside of the Governor's Mansion.
Nancy Boyda's campaign has been outdone on the campaign trail by both of her Primary opponents and neither of them have even begun to truly gear up for the race that lies ahead. Dennis Moore's fundraising has been weak at best in each of his three previously submitted reports, while Senator Jordan was able to raise more than $100,000 in just under a month of fundraising. Two of the State's most prominent Republicans - Jerry Moran and Pat Roberts - will likely be unopposed in 2008. The best challenger the K.D.P. can find from within their ranks - Donald Betts - has one principled stand of note to his name - opposition to the incredibly successful troop surge in Iraq. With all that in mind, can you see why our Boys at BTR might be a little blue?
Yes, folks, it's become a poorly kept secret in Kansas political circles - Kansas Democrats are finding themselves wholly unable to capitalize on any momentum they hoped to have gained in 2006. Perhaps that's the main reason that K.D.P. staffers have resorted to playing around on blogs during the work-day.
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UPDATE: We'd like to give kudos to the crack reporting staff at the KC Star's Buzz Blog for rubber-stamping BTR's most recent (and misguided) post. That decision provided insight about the Buzz Blog and its' reporters in two respects - their competence (or lack thereof) and their left-leaning ideological slant. Next time, if you're looking for an accurate and insightful story to reference, look no further than right here at StayRed.
Sorry, boys - Kansas G.O.P. Executive Director Christian Morgan is not one of the folks you're after. There, we said it. Morgan is not one of this blog's 'Concerned Kansans,' (though if this finds your eye, Christian, feel free to join the club!)
While normally we wouldn't dignify such an intellectually uninformed post with a response, we found this very indicative of the current state of the Kansas Democratic Party.
Ask yourself this - why would the K.D.P. staffer that manages BlueTideRising waste time attacking Christian Morgan? Is it because he truly believed that Morgan, the ranking employee for Kansas' Republican Party, was behind StayRed? Probably not (though we would never put any intellectual flub past the K.D.P. and their dim-witted rank and file).
More than likely, this recent posting illustrates the uneasy fog that Larry Gates and crew have found surrounding themselves. Despite the fact that they absolutely throttled most Kansas Republicans in 2006 - both in ballot boxes and bank accounts - they simply can't make headway anywhere outside of the Governor's Mansion.
Nancy Boyda's campaign has been outdone on the campaign trail by both of her Primary opponents and neither of them have even begun to truly gear up for the race that lies ahead. Dennis Moore's fundraising has been weak at best in each of his three previously submitted reports, while Senator Jordan was able to raise more than $100,000 in just under a month of fundraising. Two of the State's most prominent Republicans - Jerry Moran and Pat Roberts - will likely be unopposed in 2008. The best challenger the K.D.P. can find from within their ranks - Donald Betts - has one principled stand of note to his name - opposition to the incredibly successful troop surge in Iraq. With all that in mind, can you see why our Boys at BTR might be a little blue?
Yes, folks, it's become a poorly kept secret in Kansas political circles - Kansas Democrats are finding themselves wholly unable to capitalize on any momentum they hoped to have gained in 2006. Perhaps that's the main reason that K.D.P. staffers have resorted to playing around on blogs during the work-day.
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UPDATE: We'd like to give kudos to the crack reporting staff at the KC Star's Buzz Blog for rubber-stamping BTR's most recent (and misguided) post. That decision provided insight about the Buzz Blog and its' reporters in two respects - their competence (or lack thereof) and their left-leaning ideological slant. Next time, if you're looking for an accurate and insightful story to reference, look no further than right here at StayRed.
So is that not Christian Morgan's birthday? At least BTR had a reason to assert their claims, you call them KDP staffers, but you don't offer any evidence whatsoever. Not even an "Our sources indicate..." WEAK!
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"Incredibly successful?" All your pretense to accuracy and objectivity goes out the window with that comment.
Six U.S. Deaths in Iraq Make 2007 Deadliest Year Since Invasion
By Aaron Sheldrick Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Six U.S. military personnel were killed in Iraq, the Army said, making 2007 the deadliest year for American forces in the country since the 2003 invasion.
Four soldiers assigned to Multi-National Division - North died Nov. 5 when a bomb detonated near their vehicle in Kirkuk, north of Baghdad, the Army said in a statement late yesterday. Another soldier and a sailor died from attacks on the same day in al-Anbar and Salah ad Din provinces respectively, it said.
The attacks bring the death toll this year to 850, according to U.S. military data, the highest since 2004 when 846 defense personnel were killed in Iraq. The war has left 3,837 military personnel dead, according to the most recent figures released by the Defense Department.
The U.S. has about 165,000 soldiers in Iraq, the most since the 2003 invasion, after adding about 30,000 this year to quell sectarian violence and an insurgency.
U.S. soldiers are increasingly leaving their bases to engage the enemy, making them more vulnerable, Major Winfield Danielson, a U.S. military spokesman, told the Associated Press, which put the death toll this year at 853.
``Having more soldiers and having them out in the communities certainly contributes to our casualties,'' AP cited Danielson as saying.
More than 28,000 military personnel have been wounded in action since the war began in March 2003, with 45 percent of them hurt so seriously they haven't returned to duty, Defense Department figures show.
U.S. deaths have fallen each month since May, when 120 military personnel were killed, after intensified efforts to secure Baghdad and al-Anbar province started in February.
As many as 83,042 Iraqi civilians have been killed since the invasion, according to the latest report on the Web site of Iraqbodycount.org, a U.K.-based research group.
Sunday, 25 November 2007 dpa: Gunmen murder 11 family members of Iraqi journalist 5
Sunday, 25 November 2007 AP: Wounded vets asked to pay up 5
Sunday, 25 November 2007 BBC: Merseyside soldiers arrive for duty in Iraq 1
Sunday, 25 November 2007 Reuters: Suicode truck bomb kills 1 Iraqi soldier, wounds 5 others 7
Sunday, 25 November 2007 Reuters: Gunmen kill 1 man, wound another in Hilla 4
Sunday, 25 November 2007 Reuters: Roadside bomb wounds 2 people in southern Baghdad 4
Sunday, 25 November 2007 Reuters: Police find bodies in Mosul and Kut 4
Sunday, 25 November 2007 Reuters: Iraqi army detains 58 gunmen 3
Sunday, 25 November 2007 Reuters: Iraq government to pay neighborhood police units 6
Sunday, 25 November 2007 AFP: Iraq Kurds defy Baghdad on oil deals 3
Sunday, 25 November 2007 AP: Iraqi Shiites denounce draft legislation 5
Sunday, 25 November 2007 NYTimes: T
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What makes you think the "Boys in Blue" are boys at all? If you think BTR is the same kind of testo-fest as this site, then you're barking up the wrong tree altogether.
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1.) You've not said anything to refute the evidence. You've simply denied the charges and offered nothing the legitimize your denial.
2.) You've missed the point. BTR didn't profess to "out" anyone, but instead to point out a curious coincident. It appears that despite KUBlue's clear effort to stress this simple point you still missed. That's understandable, because you wouldn't have seen that unless you read the first and last sentences:
We've long theorized that KS GOP Executive Director Christian Morgan is the communications "wizard" behind Stay Red Kansas. However unlike other blogs, which rarely support their claims without any evidence, we've waited to report our theory until actual evidence could corroborate it. It's a little something we like to call the burden of proof.
Again, we're not certain that Mr. Morgan is the metaphorical wizard behind the curtain at Stay Red Kansas, but we wanted to share the evidence for your consideration.
So, where's the evidence to back up your spurious claims? Wichita is still waiting.
3.) What happened to the Facebook profile? The man gotcha down?
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Look at the title of Friday's post, genius - "Coming Monday: Stay Red Kansas Revealed...Kansas' most libelous blog loses its' anonymity Monday."
Or, the beginning of the entry:
"We've long theorized that KS GOP Executive Director Christian Morgan is the communications "wizard" behind Stay Red Kansas...However unlike other blogs, which rarely support their claims with any evidence, we've waited to report our theory until actual evidence could corroborate it. It's a little something we like to call the burden of proof."
Sounds pretty cocksure to me.
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The difference, my dear Watson, is that BTR is pitching a theory and citing evidence to support his theory.
SRK simply asserts that anything they type is irrefutable fact.
It's elementary logic and scientific method. Goes to show that the GOP is still lost to sound methodology.
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You're wrong - Stay Red Kansas Revealed...loses its' anonymity Monday. That, my friend, is not theory - it's assertion. By providing that 'evidence - brilliant detective work, by the way (the birthdays are the same...my Gosh!) - and pairing it with the phrase 'burden of proof,' you have shared your confidence with the World in that theory, claiming that you have proof. Where is the speculation? It's assertion.
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no, it was a teaser...the post itself made no assertions about anything.
and, at least, they attempted to provide "evidence" of their theory...something this blog would NEVER do.
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Chasing BTR's lead, eh?
You'll never get ahead that way Christian.
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The Kansas Democratic Party already has a blog, schmuck.
http://www.ksdp.org/blog
Why would they also want BTR?
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this is all BEAUTIFUL!
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Wow this whole thing is weak weak weak.
Who the phuque cares who is behind any of the blogs?
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Hm, this ghost has a point!
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I thought this was Kansas' most stale political blog.
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Easy enough I see you are correct about the KDP! They are worried indeed, but I really dont think they are worried about THE GOP as a whole as they are worried bout RON PAUL! Its funny how you say ** incredible successful TROOPS SERGE? ** AS a GOP MEMBER, I FIND THIS utterly STUPID! THE WAR IN IRAQ needs to END and MOST GOP people such as myself have DISTANCED OURSELVES from the EXTREMEIST such as you here! I am sorry I joined this site if this is how you believe!, THE WAR IN IRAQ is UNCONSTITUTIONAL, ITS KILLED MORE AMERICANS than NEED BE, and WE NEED TO BRING THEM HOME! ITS A SAD DAY IN THE GOP when the PEOPLE WHO WANT US TO STAY RED refuse to SAY * WE MESSED UP GOING INTO IRAQ, SO LETS FIX IT *, instead you spout the same ol story * STAY THE COURSE *, IF WE KEEP THIS MINDSET, we will LOSE alot OF ELECTIONS! DO YOU WANT THIS? I DONT! EVERY LAST DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE is NOT WORTHY of the highest seat in the land, its just sad, that NO ONE IS except RON PAUL! THANK GOD FOR RON PAUL!
THINK AGAIN REDSTATE!
THINK AGAIN!
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Well, between the veto and the filibuster, the GOP has proved the Democrats cannot get us out of this war without electing a president. The public wants out of this war that's killing our young people and draining our treasury. With Chuck Hagel (who voted against the "sense of the senate" Quds resoution, meant to allow a war on Iran) out of the race, Ron Paul is the only Republican candidate who recognizes this.
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I had always heard Christian Morgan wrote Bounce Boyda not StayRed...
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A+ for effort, but the joke fell short of mildly amusing. Better luck next time!
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From the Star:
UPDATE, 11:30 a.m.: A highly placed Kansas Republican asks that we include SurveyUSA numbers from an earlier poll on Kathleen Sebelius.
Here they are.
For those who don't want to click through, they show Sebelius' approval rating at 64 percent ... with 32 percent disapproval.
Republicans point out that her numbers have slipped recently, which is true.
But which statewide officeholder would you rather be?
Candidate Favorable Unfavorable
Sebelius 64% 32%
Roberts 51% 38%
Brownback 44% 49%
Thanks, GOP, for the tip.
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Sen. Trent Lott's decision to quit prompted us to check in on Sen. Pat Roberts — who's up in 2008, but who hasn't drawn a serious Democratic challenger. At least not yet.
Roberts' latest poll numbers — from SurveyUSA for KCTV-5 and KWCH in Wichita — show him with 51 percent approval and 38 percent disapproval. That's good, but not great, for a long-term incumbent.
But look at Sen. Sam Brownback. He's actually in negative territory in Kansas — 44 percent approval, but 49 percent disapproval.
That isn't a huge problem for Brownback, since he isn't running again, at least for the Senate. (It could be a problem if he decides to run for governor in 2010.) But Republicans have to be worried if one of their own is struggling in the one of the reddest states.
The poll came out last week.
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