Defending Culver: Get Used to it Deeth

Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 8:31
Krusty Konservative
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deeth-and-culver My good friend, John Deeth, seems to be bent out of shape over this site’s gubernatorial poll. While I doubt John and I could agree about much over a cup of coffee, he operates one of the best liberal blogs in Iowa. I appreciate his insight to various Iowa issues, and as one who’s always quick to pat myself on the back when I’m right, Deeth does that too, as he should.

But his comments about the TIR poll just confuse me. Deeth wrote the following:

“Wish I had the money to fund my own poll, but this is an amateur operation.

Without even digging into the poll’s demographic weighting, consider this: Because Culver won, he’s actually had to deal with stuff like the flood and the tanking economy. It’s easy to imply ‘Nussle would have done better’ when he was flying below the rader as Bush’s low-profle last budget director. The rage gets pointed at the top, not the middle.”

How can I not love a guy who also has a hankering for misspelling words when he’s pissed off?

Anyway… Back to my point.

I know that Democrats have had the luxury to campaign against the evil Republicans for most of this decade, but it’s now the Democrat’s turn to have to defend their record against their challengers.

Let’s use John’s grumpy statement, but put it into a couple of real life example.

Example One: Carter vs. Reagan 1980

Because Carter won, he’s actually had to deal with stuff like the oil embargo and the tanking economy. It’s easy to imply “Reagan would have done better” when he was flying below the radar as the Governor of California. The rage gets pointed at the top, not the middle.”

Example Two: Bush vs. Kerry 2004

Because Bush won, he’s actually had to deal with stuff like the 9-11 attacks on America and the ensuing unpopular war. It’s easy to imply “Kerry would have done better” when he was flying below the radar as a Senator from Massachusetts. The rage gets pointed at the top, not the middle.”

I don’t care who Iowa Republicans nominate, the general election campaign will be about one thing and one thing only, the job Chet Culver has done as the state’s Governor. Deeth is 100% right about one thing: people’s rage is always targeted to the person at the top. So if we are still dealing with huge budget deficits, unbalanced budgets, additional budget cuts, a bad economy, and a high unemployment rate, Governor Culver is going to have to deal with it.

The piss poor condition of our state is Chet Culver’s unpopular war so to speak. What should disturb Democrats like Deeth is Culver’s insistence that everything is hunky-dory. It’s not. People are hurting all across Iowa, and Culver’s agenda will make it worse.

I don’t give a rip who Culver brings in to turn things around politically. The hole Culver has dug is just too vast. I doubt that there is any chance he can manage to get himself out of it before next November. I understand that Democrats like Deeth don’t think it’s fair to have to defend Culver at every turn, but now it’s your turn to defend an unpopular elected official who refuses to deal with issues head on.

Have fun Deeth, we have only just begun to fight.

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6 Comments on “Defending Culver: Get Used to it Deeth”

Deace voted for Obama wrote on 15 July, 2009, 9:14
The fact is that Culver and the Dimocrats have been a DISASTER for the state of Iowa. They have grown the size of government to an unmanageable level and a school child could see it coming. There is no one to blame but themselves.

They cannot put a smily face on the economics in Iowa.

BTW, the news is covering Culver running around the state trying to entice more parents to sign up their children for free health care paid for by the taxpayers and it’s being portrayed as a very good thing. Why? It’s not a good thing–it’s a bad thing.

Parents should be paying for their own children’s health care–not taxpayers. And in this era of economic crisis, why are they trying to load even more onto the public dole? Typical Dimocrats!!! We cannot afford them any longer.
Conservative Demo wrote on 15 July, 2009, 9:42
Krustosis writes: “How can I not love a guy who also has a hankering for misspelling words when he’s pissed off”

HA! That from the guy who really ought have an on-staff proofreader, probably an educated “elite” one who actually would know proper grammar, synyax, and spelling. And HK, your errors happen even when you’re not angry.

That said, I read Deeth every day and you when you post and from my vantage point, your regular writings seem always to be a pissed-off rant, Deeth’s generally don’t appear to be written during a pissed-off moment. When Deeth _IS_ angry about something, he generally makes some reference about it within the essay.

Quite frankly HK, you write like a self-inflated has-been who’s grasping at straws to hold a fading audience.

_EXPOSED_ (yesterday) indeed!
Lydia wrote on 15 July, 2009, 10:22
Is Deeth trying to convey that he is angry with that silly Shat? Does he spend a lot of time in Riverside?
HawkCR1 wrote on 16 July, 2009, 16:04
Well..considering Deeth lives in Iowa City, which is close enough to Riverside..perhaps that is the case Lydia…but I digress.

Lydia..and Krusty..you have to consider the source here.. John Deeth gets paid to sit at a desk at the Johnson County auditor’s office and write on his and other Democratic party blogs all day..and get paid by the taxpayers of Johnson County while doing it.

Then again, his boss, drunken Johnson County auditor Tom Slockett (2 DUI’s in 5 years) hasn’t been able to conduct an election properly in the past decade without errors, lost and then “found” votes and having honor of being the LAST county in Iowa to report its results in the 2004 Presidential election, while they were scrambling to find a way to create more votes so that John Kerry could win Iowa.

So, you can understand why we out here in Johnson County don’t really take a lot what John Deeth says for granted.
Mike C wrote on 16 July, 2009, 16:32
How did this site get funding for the poll? Much mockery was made of the Gross poll because it cost so much. How much did this poll cost? Who paid the tab? The Party?

I’m not asking to muckrake, just genuinely curious.
HawkCR1 wrote on 16 July, 2009, 23:51
Mike C..

This should answer your questions… The poll was NOT funded by the Iowa Republican Party.

http://theiowarepublican.com/home/2009/07/08/tir-statewide-gubernatorial-poll/