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This “Blast” e-mail contains both information gleaned from the Internet and contributions from others;

it also provides a compilation of all prior news meta-analyses. It addresses international affairs [focused

on Kurdistan], national affairs [focused on the midterms], and statewide affairs [focused on Corbett].

{Also, know that a STUDY linked Drinking Sweetened [not diet] soda with Premature Aging, Disease, and

Early Death, but also know that use of a Soda Stream for myriad diet-sodas [e.g., Cherry-Coke] is OK; in

addition, it seems Nicolas Cage Does Not Want You to See His New Movie, an unprecedented posture,

and I concur with Rex Reed that in ‘The Judge,’ Duvall and Downey Are Unforgettable as a Complex

Father-Son Pair.}

The backlog of “Blast” e-mails composed since Memorial Day, 2013 has been compiled

in three sets: “Anti-BHO” e-mails [I,  II,  III,  IV,  V,  VI,  VII,  VIII,  IX,  X,  XI,  XII,  XIII,  XIV] 

remitted during the first half-year [focused on BHO’s Scandal-Sheet and the effort to

defund ObamaDon’tCare (spotlighting Cruz)], and “Action-Items” e-mails [I,  II, III,  IV, V, 

VI, VII, VIII,  IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, 

XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX and XXX] remitted since December [focused initially on Guzzardi

and morphed into focus on myriad other issues related to BHO’s overall efforts—

domestic and global—to destroy American Exceptionalism]. Also, the first set of

“Thoughts” *I-XVII] was uploaded and, as soon as the size of the currently-accumulatingfile hits 2 megs, it will be uploaded, as well; anyone who is a glutton-for-punishment

may request a copy of any document [composed in Microsoft WORD]. {Graphics and

topical-levity have been invoked sparingly, with visuals that match topics covered.}

Topics covered addressed Foreign Policy [Kurdistan, Israel, Ukraine],

Politics *GOP’s Civil-War, Midterms, Corbett], Medicine

*ObamaDon’tCare, E-Cigs, Ebola], Education [Common Core, Holocaust

mandate in PA], Culture Wars [Gun-Laws, Gay-Marriage, Abortion],

BHO’s Scandal-Sheet [BenghaziGate, IRS, NSA], Big Government

[Income-Redistribution, Illegals, Constitution]. {These topic-triads are

not comprehensive, but constitute the major concerns scrutinized.}

They have been provided without risking “spamming” *including the “finis” pledge  to

become a bit less comprehensive]; they can be searched for key-words. More than

3700-pages have been composed thus far [1051 + 2485 + 175], and the reader is invited

to ID any internal contradiction *for there aren’t any!+, inasmuch as the secondary-goal

has been consensus-development.

Battles continue to rage in Kurdistan and in other regions in Iraq/Syria; Col. Oliver North suspects the

former may have been promulgated as a distraction while Baghdad has become targeted [per last

night’s interview by Greta on FNC+ but, regardless, the Kurds remain in dire-straits; for example,

although  Turkey is Allowing Iraqi Kurds To Join Fight Against ISIS In Kobane,  it is  blocking delivery of

sorely-needed heavy arms because it opposes US arms transfers to Kurds who, it claims, are terrorists. 

There has been some CONFUSION, manifest when US Humanitarian Aid is given to the Islamic State [?]; 

Churches in Mosul have been destroyed by the Islamic State, Car Bombings Killed 16 People in Karbala, 

Militants launched 15 near-simultaneous attacks, and New Islamic State Atrocities abounded [Chemical

Attacks, Hacking Limbs, Beheading Boy with Down Syndrome]. “Beggars can’t be choosers,” but it seems

anti-climactic that a US-Led Strike Killed 8 in ISIS-Held Syria Town; even Colin Powell's former Chief Of

Staff [Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson, who harshly criticized Bush- ’43 and his team+ has opined on How To

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'Knock [the Islamic State] The Heck Out.' Finally, disinformation has been generated [An independent

Kurdistan? Be careful what you wish for]  that is replete with deceit [such as suggesting such an entity

would be communist, absent any rationale for making such an absurd claim]. {A must-read is this

analysis of two Chemical Weapons Revelations in the Middle East.}

Summaries of the Past Two Days, c/o “Foreign Policy”… 

Along with continued coalition airstrikes,  the U.S. military has  airdropped supplies  to

Kurdish forces  fighting Islamic State militants in the Syrian town of Kobanê  (Ayn al-

Arab). Three U.S. transport planes dropped 27 bundles of supplies,  provided by Iraqi

Kurdish authorities, including ammunition, small arms, and medical supplies. The move

has come amid intensified fighting in the town, near the border with Turkey. According

to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Islamic State militants fired

44 mortars at Kurdish controlled areas of the town on Saturday. On Monday, in a shift, 

Turkey said it would allow Iraqi Kurdish fighters to cross the Syrian border to reinforce

Kurdish forces defending Kobani. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Turkey was

facilitating the passage of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces across its territory into Syria.

As fresh clashes broke out in the town of Kobani  (Ayn al-Arab) Monday, Britain

announced it was authorizing spy planes and armed drones  to conduct surveillance

missions over Syria. British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said the aircraft would fly

over Syria to "gather intelligence as part of our efforts to protect our national security."

He noted, however, that the aircraft would not fire weapons and that armed operations

in Syria would require "further permission." The British parliament approved conducting

airstrikes in Iraq in September. Islamic State militants launched  several attacks against

Kurdish forces in northern Iraq Monday, including a truck bombing near the Mosul Dam

and clashes close to the town of Qarah Tapah. Additionally, leaders from the Yazidi

minority reported Islamic State militants have seized two villages in an advance on

Mount Sinjar.  An assault by the militant group in August forced an estimated 40,000

Yazidis to flee the area. Meanwhile, as attention has focused on Islamic State advances

in Iraq and Syria, opposition activists and monitoring groups, including the Organization

for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, claim the Syrian government has increased its

use of  chemical weapons, particularly since August.

Battles continue to rage in Israel, both physical and philosophical; this includes the battle for control of

the Temple Mount with Palestinian President Abbas Calling Jews Visiting Temple Mount 'Herd of Cattle'; 

worriment that Hamas is already Rebuilding Gaza Terror Tunnels; absurd elaboration by WaPo’s Richard

Cohen On His Claim That Israel Was A ‘Mistake’; and a huffington-post article (by an “18-year-old Israeli,

US Department of State International Exchange alumnus, public diplomacy and peace activist”) allegedly

presenting “Israel's True Face”  but actually reflecting the typical lib-philosophy favoring a 2-statesolution, absent recognition that the Palestinian Arabs resolutely reject this approach. [I still feel rioters

should be dispatched to Gaza.]

In other international news, NYT: Obama Wants Iran Deal that Avoids Congress (raising

concern that his plan is to swap a real-deal for transient support against the Islamic

State), Dutch battled a surge of desperate, violent Muslim refugees (infesting Europe),

Australia Reversed Hijab Ban  (reflecting another manifestation of politically-correct

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behavior), and Philippine Islamists Freed Two German Hostages  (reflecting the global

nature of this struggle). {Also know that North and South Korea Exchanged Gunfire

Along Border.}

Battles continue to rage in America regarding ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ which opened yesterday at the

Metropolitan Opera amidst Pro-Israel Protesters, some of whom Disrupted what they viewed as an Anti-

Semitic Met Opera; the aforementioned piece [printed twice by the NY-Times] referred to this work as a

“masterpiece….*and observed that+ while the terrorists do sing and poetize in a mode similar to that of

the other characters, they don’t come across exactly as humanized, or even as human.” Not surprisingly,

Major Jewish donors stood by the Met  [Michael Bloomberg, L.P., The Annenberg Foundation, The

Neubauer Family Foundation, and Toll Brothers Foundation], while others considered its being

performed as a Betrayal; the NY-Daily News was also highly critical [The right chorus to hear]. 

The latest on gun-law  concerns is that AG-Holder feels “Failure to Pass Gun Control Is

My Biggest Failure”; meanwhile, an Armed Citizen Took Keys Out Of Getaway Car prior

to Shooting and And Killing Armed Bank Robber  and  Two were Killed and Nine were

Wounded in Chicago weekend Violence and a Mexican Community Activist was Gunned

Down During Radio Show.

That BHO continues to trash America motivates continue dissemination of information that may not

otherwise have been noticed; this applies to his plan to grant executive-amnesty to Hispanics [Obama

Admin Quietly Prepares 'Surge' Of New Immigrant IDs, Up to 34 MILLION green cards and work permits, 

Obama Admin: We May Need 'Surge' Of Millions Of Immigrant Ids 'For Any Number Of Reasons' ; and

House Judiciary Committee Demands Briefing on New Immigrant ID 'Surge' ], to Haitians [Obama to

Allow 100,000 Haitians into America Without a Visa; DHS Opens Door to New Immigrants from Haiti,

Extends Special Protections For Honduran, Nicaraguan Immigrants;  and Grassley: DHS' New Haitian

Immigrant Program 'Irresponsible Overreach of the Executive Branch's Authority'], and to West Africans

[Senate Judiciary Republicans to Obama: Stop Issuing Visas to Ebola-Stricken Countries Now ;  and

Customs: Over 2,000 Entering USA from West Africa without Screening]. He is delaying these effortsuntil after all elections (including run-offs, if necessary) lest there be a backlash; indeed, it has been

asserted by Jeff Sessions that Obama's Immigration Policies Hammer Black Workers preferentially.

Cost to Taxpayers for Federal Bureaucrats Paid to Not Work: $775 Million. 

Dems in danger over Ebola, as per a POLITICO survey for any number of reasons [Obama Repeats: You

Can't Get Ebola on Bus -- Day After Bus Quarantined; The CDC was slow to understand the depth of the

Ebola crisis; CDC Revised Ebola Protocol; and EBOLA CZAR WON'T ATTEND HOUSE HEARING]. As a result,

even as the WHO declared Nigeria's Ebola Outbreak to be Officially Over,  Liberal/Dem critics were

unforgiving [Andrea Mitchell: When Is the Ebola Czar Going to Start Working?; Liberal Al Hunt said the

choice of Ron Klain for Ebola czar is a bad choice that will not stop the Democrats' political problems on

this issue; and Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) called on Obama to impose a temporary travel ban on non-U.S.

citizens from countries in West Africa that have been affected by the Ebola virus, urging the

administration to take action "immediately."]. One lib attempted to mount a defense [Janet Napolitano 

said Congressional Hearing On Ebola Was ‘Shameful'] and, of course, a  CNN Host Grilled Cruz About

Ebola And GOP Opposition To Surgeon General. That’s why it’s the Ebola incompetence, stupid; There’s

no Ebola panic, but the public’s measured judgment of Obama’s bungling. After an Obama

administration health official explained why U.S. protocols on Ebola failed [they originally were intended

for African field hospitals], the White House came under another round of attacks for its refusal to

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restrict travel from nations suffering epidemic outbreaks. Obama did show he could  cave  to public-

pressure for he had, for close to a fortnight, resisted calls for an “Ebola czar”  [insisting the CDC should

lead the administration’s response] and, as recently as Wednesday, prompted his top spokesman to

stress that the White House was doing fine without designating one high-level official to focus solely on

the issue. {Also, Rubio filed a bill that would temporarily ban visas for people from Liberia, Guinea and

Sierra Leone.}

Jim Geraghty noted that Ebola is prompting Reality to Intrude Upon Dems’ Party Loyalty 

The Washington Post notices the obvious: 

Democrats are beginning to sound more like Republicans when they talk about Ebola.

And Republicans are moving into overdrive with their criticism of the government's

handling of the deadly virus.

The sharpened rhetoric, strategists say, suggests Democrats fear

President Obama's response to Ebola in the United States could become

a political liability in the midterm election and Republicans see anopportunity to tie increasing concerns about the disease to the public's

broader worries about Obama's leadership.

Here comes a golden quote:

"This is feeding into the Republican narrative that Democrats don't

know how to govern and government is too large," said Jim Manley, a

former aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.).

Democrats, Manley said, "are desperate to try to demonstrate that they

have tough ideas to respond to the crisis."

You know, it may not just be a “narrative.” It may be what’s actually happening. Run

down the list of problems — Ebola, the Islamic State, the kids coming over the border,

vets dying while waiting for care from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Obamacare,

the persistent economic gloom, Russia on the move — and it’s not that unreasonable

for people to conclude that Democrats don’t know how to govern, that the government

is too large and lethargic in its response to problems.

Picking up a few paragraphs later:

Even Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii), a liberal Democrat who is not in any

danger of losing reelection, called on Obama to "immediately suspend

commercial flights from the West African nations into the United States,

as well as suspend visas for their passport holders, until we can ensure

that our health facilities are adequately prepared."

When a Democrat, in no particular danger of losing her seat, publicly opposes Obama, it

means this is what she really thinks; she thinks allowing flights from the West African

nations increases the risk of another Ebola patient from there ending up in the United

States. JFK said, “Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.” If your party asking you to

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tolerate a possibility that raises the risk of Americans dying from having their internal

organs liquefied, it’s probably asking too much. 

Regarding the midterms, recent events continue to favor the GOP [Supreme Court Decision Upholding

Photo ID Has Far Reaching Implications; Tea Party Launched Minority Outreach Effort; Dems Desperately

Seeking Women  and Dems Losing Mid-Term War for Women], while a Politico Poll revealed 64% of

voters  in the most competitive 2014 elections say it feels as if events in the United States are “out of

control” and expressed mounting alarm about terrorism, anxiety about Ebola and harsh skepticism of

both political parties only three weeks before the Nov. 4 midterms.

When Obama made a rare campaign trail appearance, people left early;  in response, a

Bitter Obama said, regarding the GOP, “If I Said Apple Pie Is Great, They'd Say No.”

Here’s Politico’s follow-up:

HERE'S A FREE SOUNDBITE FOR YOUR AD -- Signed, President Barack

Obama:  "Make no mistake: Democrats running from President Barack

Obama aren't actually all that distant from him. That's the message that

Obama himself delivered Monday, speaking on Rev. Al Sharpton's radioshow ... 'The bottom line is, though, these are all folks who vote with

me ... They have supported my agenda in Congress ... This isn't about

my feelings being hurt. These are folks who are strong allies and

supporters of me.'" Edward-Isaac Dovere:

Adding up -- This comes on the heels, of course, of this line from the

president: "I am not on the ballot this fall ... But make no mistake: These

policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them." I asked La. GOP

candidate Bill Cassidy if Obama was giving the GOP gifts with comments

like these. His answer: "The president put it well. His agenda, his

policies, every single one of them, is on the ballot ... he crystallized [it],but people already understood it."

Additional signs of Dem-Desperation: the Dems published a handout essentially

claiming that  If You Vote Republican, The Confederacy Wins (Or Something LIke That); 

Elizabeth Warren said, "The Republicans rigged the game"; Justice Department Expert

Witness said Blacks 'Less Sophisticated Voters'; Wendy Davis Suggested Abbott Opposes

His Own Interracial Marriage  [as Many of her supporters seemed resigned to Davis

losing because she revealed she is a Truly Horrible Person].

Specific Senate races also seem to be leaning towards the GOP [GAWKER HIT PIECE ON REPUBLICAN

CANDIDATE PROVEN FALSE, in COLORADO and Dem Sen. Udall Joked About Being ‘Brain Dead’ in Super

Awkward Interview; Mark Begich Running Out of Gas in Alaska; New Poll Showed Grimes Hurt by Recent

Gaffes as McConnell Leads by 8 in Kentucky and,  in Kentucky, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell leads

Alison Lundergan Grimes, 44-43, while, by a margin of 47 percent to 42 percent, Kentuckians would

prefer Republicans take over the U.S. Senate; Tillis was all confidence  in North Carolina; and Georgia

Senate Democratic candidate Michelle Nunn released a statement on Friday altering her position on the

current Ebola crisis. Nunn originally said she would  defer  to "the CDC and other scientists and public

health practitioners" on how the administration should respond. However, after members of Congress

had grilled CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden on Thursday at a hearing, she changed her stance and called

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for "temporary" travel restrictions for everyone except military and aid workers]. On the other hand,

concern was raised that the GOP could lose Georgia and/or South Dakota. 

One article wondered whether  the National Republican Congressional Committee was

ignoring “young, smart, handsome, savvy, and quick with a sharp sound bite, Dan

Bongino, presumably everything the Republican Party purports to look for in a

candidate. Even with the most creative drawing of the district lines, the District is only a

D+4, meaning that it leans Democrat but can be won by a Republican in an election

cycle that favors the GOP, such as this one; mobilized voters in the highly conservative

western Maryland part of the district could overwhelm the disenchanted and

demoralized Dems in the D.C. suburban part of the District. Bongino has nationalized

the election, having both Senator Rand Paul and Mike Lee into the District to rally the

base, along with other conservative superstars like Col. Allen West. On the fundraising

front, Bongino continues to raise more money than his Democrat incumbent opponent,

another touchstone for legitimacy. Perhaps this lack of enthusiasm is because he is a

constitutional conservative who has a libertarian streak.

In the world of polling, The Daily Beast posited that Nate Silver is Afraid of Sam Wang because the latterpredicts the Dems will hold the Senate although, in the text, it noted he has articulated specific polling-

based rationales, as well. Also, the Alan Grayson's Divorce Drama Continued after his Wife Said He Is A

Slumlord; [fortunately,] neither Abortion nor gay marriage never became a midterm issue . {Also, note

that Hillary Raised Record $2.1M At Katzenberg Fundraiser.}

Watch This Slam Dunk by Committee Chairman Reince Priebus [per Jim Geraghty]

Debbie Wasserman Schultz has a really tough job in spinning these upcoming midterms

as a vote of confidence in Dems and Obama. She’s not the least bit convincing when she

does that job, but that doesn’t mean the job isn’t difficult. Here’s how it went Sunday: 

“We’re going to hold the Senate because over the next couple of weeks

and leading up to even today [sic], the one issue voters are going to ask

themselves, Chris, is ‘Who has my back?’” Wasserman Schultz, head of

the Democratic National Committee, told Fox News Sunday host Chris

Wallace.

Watch Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus’s response: 

“You guys are losing everywhere, and the president hasn’t had

anybody’s back. He hasn’t even had your back,” Priebus said, in an

apparent reference to reports  that Obama and the Democrats have

soured on Wasserman Schultz’s leadership of the DNC.

That report: 

Obama and Wasserman Schultz have rarely even talked since 2011.

They don’t meet about strategy or messaging. They don’t talk much on

the phone. Instead, the DNC chairwoman stakes out the president of

the United States at the end of photo lines at events and fundraisers.

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“You need another picture, Debbie?” Obama tends to say, according to

people who’ve been there for the encounters. 

Regarding the PA-gubernatorial race, Reader Poll conducted by PoliticsPA found that Corbett Won the

Third Gubernatorial Debate.  Also, after  PA Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffery was justifiably

Suspended, I wrote the following in response to a comment that was adverse to this action: “You have

again demonstrated how out-of-touch you are, perhaps motivated (like BHO) by ideology more than

practicality; inasmuch as NO ONE will credibly adopt your reaction to Castille’s emergency effort to

protect justice (based upon McCaffrey's own statements, inter alia), it is notable that the dissenting

opinion in this case was composed by a fellow-Dem….Todd never confirmed that the absence of a

criminal conviction precluded this action, and it cannot be claimed that it was based solely on whatever

Castille did; therefore, the Board acted on all available evidence expeditiously as is its responsibility,

thereby triggering mechanisms that will honor all the rights and privileges of the individual who was

targeted.” 

In follow-up of a discussion regarding myriad electoral issues *including Guzzardi’s effort

to be on the gubernatorial ballot], I wrote:

“You have destroyed your credibility on multiple levels, for you have not matched my

level of documentation [discounting your wild assertions] with any of your own; for

example, you conjure the theory that another judge would have ruled differently when

analyzing Guzzardi’s signatures and you fail to rectify your prior claim that I’d written

that ‘ALL’ had been OK.

“As I have painstakingly explained, I pulled an all-nighter after the Corbett filing had

been ID’ed and, based solely on publicly-available data, had vetted the four challenged

counties; of course, some were classified as requiring more analysis [such as

husband/wife handwriting-linkage so, therefore, your incorrect claim was disproven

contemporaneously.

“You also claim that even Guzzardi considered his effort unserious when, in actuality, he

traveled all over the Commonwealth [and was interviewed by the media] as he

explained his rationale; your elitism is evinced when you persist in adopting a dismissive

attitude when—even now—people write on PoliticsPA that they plan to vote for him

[for whatever reason(s)].

“You also adhere to the claim that ‘Bob’ is a racist, dropping the charge that I’m a racist

as well, recalling that you had initially claimed EVERYONE challenging your viewpoint

was a ‘racist’; this cannot be viewed merely as a gratuitous bow to ‘present-company-

excluded’-thinking, because you still haven’t quoted anything he wrote as justifying his

being subject to your [dog-whistle] racism claim.

“Another classic approach you adopted was to claim that you don’t want to defend AG-

Holder because the relevant page is no longer on the PoliticsPA front-page; to the

contrary, once you click on the ‘Governor’ entries, you will find it still appears on the

front-page and, therefore, this effort to procrastinate [classically Obama-esque] fails.” 

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“Presumably, the Magellan analysis took into account your newly-introduced criterion

related to the potential for Stack to drive Philly turnout [as if anything were needed in

addition to what can be anticipated]; thus, you have failed to dispute my claim that it

represents a legitimate dataset.

“I do not dispute my ‘right-wing conservative’  leanings, just as you undoubtedly would

accept the appellation of being a ‘left-wing liberal’; nevertheless, there is no doubt that

BHO/Wolf share comparable socialist stances [starting with avid support for public

unions, ending with fervent desire to destroy fracking+, and you can’t invoke entities

that call themselves ‘socialist’ because, these days, those organizations are thinly-veiled

‘communist’ entities.

“THEREFORE, you can choose either to conjure a rejoinder [documented with

specificity] to this reformulation of your entry, or you can [perhaps wisely] choose to

‘stop digging’ and acknowledge that you cannot support your assertions!

“In case you forgot, this is the  URL  to the page where you have yet to back-up your

rudimentary defense of AG-Holder [regarding Fast & Furious and the James RosenAffidavit] is again provided:

“Addendum: I break-up the URL’s because their presence otherwise has caused delayed

uploading on this website.” 

Here is another political commentary:

Morning Jolt - . . . with Jim Geraghty

October 21, 2014

NRSC to Senate Democrats: Just Try to Defend Picking Klain for Ebola Czar!

This morning the National Republican Senatorial Committee is hitting this year’s crop of

vulnerable Democrat incumbents for meekly acquiescing to President Obama naming

Ron Klain —  as Andy McCarthy summarizes,  a “sharp-elbowed Democratic political

operative with no medical expertise” — as the “Ebola czar.” 

Here’s the Mark Begich version: 

Unfortunately, Mark Begich (D-AK) not only refuses to hold the Obama

Administration accountable for the slow response to Ebola entering our

borders, but it appears that he has taken his marching orders from the White

House on a serious matter of public health. Instead, Begich's Washington allies

have resorted to spreading  false and debunked claims,  blaming others for the

Administration's failures. President Obama's choice of Ron Klain as Ebola Czar is

indefensible, yet Mark Begich once again refuses to hold the White House

accountable.

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"It is absurd that President Obama believes that a partisan lobbyist with zero

medical experience should lead the national response to the Ebola epidemic, but

Mark Begich is nowhere to be found," said NRSC Press Secretary Brook

Hougesen. "Mark Begich apparently believes that a partisan Washington

lobbyist like Ron Klain is an appropriate choice for this position, which speaks to

his lack of judgment and his refusal to stand up to President Obama’s poor

decisions — even on matters of public health and safety."

Will this make a big difference in the coming midterm elections? If nothing else, we may

get some amusing moments of watching these Democratic senators trying to explain

why Ron Klain is such a terrific guy for this job.

We know Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas greets questions about Ebola with a lengthy

“uhhhhhhhhh,” and Senator Mark Udall of Colorado is having a tough enough time with

any questions as is these days.

Another Uncharismatic, Underachieving Partisan Democrat Coasts to Reelection

I know what you want to hear. You want to hear that Republican Monica Wehby has a

shot at winning Oregon’s Senate race. She’s trailing most polls by 10 to 20 points, so . . .

sorry, no good news here.

You may ask, “What’s wrong with Oregonians?” Maybe a fair question is, “What’s wrong

with Oregon Republicans?” 

A pediatric neurosurgeon and mother of four, she appealed to

moderate Republicans fed up with Obamacare and big government. But

polls now put Wehby behind by 10 to 15 percentage points. A poll

released last week showed only 52 percent of Republicans plan to votefor Wehby, while 22 percent said they're still undecided.

The talk of a potential GOP upset here in Oregon earlier in the year wasn’t just hype;

incumbent Democratic senator Jeff Merkley has genuinely “blah” numbers for a guy

asking for another term. The percentage of Oregon voters who approve of the job he’s

doing is usually in the low 40s, and the percentage who disapprove is in the mid-30s. He

has mind-bogglingly low name ID for an incumbent U.S. Senator; as noted yesterday,

“Senator Merkley was recognized by 46 percent as his party’s candidate.” It’s as if he’s

been in the Witness Protection Program.

Merkley is not a whirling dervish of raw political charisma, nor an unstoppable vote-

accumulating machine. In 2008, Barack Obama received 1,037,291 votes in Oregon — 

56.7 percent of the vote. That year, in his first statewide bid, Merkley won 864,392

votes, or 48.9 percent of the vote — 3.4 percent more than the incumbent Republican

Senator he beat, Gordon Smith. He underperformed the margin projected in most of the

final polls. 

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Back in July,  George Will wrote a column  that made Republicans’ hearts skip a beat,

declaring, “Senator Tom Coburn is retiring, but another doctor may be coming, straight

from the operating room to her first elected office.” 

The editorial board of the  Oregonian, the state’s largest newspaper, chose to not

endorse a candidate this year. They concluded Merkley was a shameless partisan hack,

and then detailed the personal scandals in Wehby’s past years that made them deem

her unworthy of support:

The collapse of Wehby's campaign has been almost painful to watch.

First was the late-breaking revelation this spring of   a 911 call  made in

2013 by estranged boyfriend Andrew Miller, who reached for the phone

as Wehby entered his house without permission. He accused her of

stalking him. Shortly thereafter, Oregonians learned that Wehby's ex-

husband had called the cops on her in 2009. According to a police report

filed two years earlier, her ex accused her of  "ongoing harassment." 

The incidents raise obvious questions about judgment and self-control,but just as significant are questions about anticipation. Did Wehby and

her campaign really think these episodes wouldn't come to light? If so,

they were shockingly naïve.

Oregonians don’t expect such shocking and unnerving revelations from a potential

senator. They expect it from their state’s first lady. 

A lesson: In the lazy Democrat media’s template, every Republican is either dumb, evil,

or old. Because they can’t portray a pediatric neurosurgeon as dumb, they’ll paint her as

evil or a variant of it, crazy. Because we all know how ruthless and black-hearted those

pediatric neurosurgeons are, right?

So what should we expect in November? Recent history suggests flawed Democratic

candidates can coast along, relying on the Oregonians’ voting habits being set on

autopilot — particularly in the state’s most populous counties. 

Yesterday we discussed how it’s difficult, and perhaps impossible, for a Republican to

win statewide in Oregon when they’re getting blown out in the state’s largest city,

Portland. It’s not that Republicans need to win  the land of microbrews, mustaches, fig

and gorgonzola pastries, and a general hipster culture that’s convinced it’s still the

counterculture no matter how widespread and popular it gets. But a winning GOP

candidate would need to keep the margin manageable so the Republican margins in the

rest of the heavily-rural state could put him or her over the top.

Four years ago, in the previous midterm of the Obama era, longtime incumbent Ron

Wyden ran for reelection. He was challenged by Jim Huffman, law professor at Lewis &

Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. While his fellow Republican Chris Dudley came

within 1.5 percent in the governor’s race, Huffman lost by 18 percentage points. 

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But instead, Grimes non-answer illustrates what the cynics suspect — Democrats don’t

really care about whether someone is paid the minimum wage. They just want to

campaign on the issue and use it to make their opponents look harsh, selfish, and cruel.

As noted earlier this year:

The Nation, which pays its interns the minimum wage of $7.25 per hour,

wrote an open letter to Walmart demanding that it pay its workers at

least $12 per hour. The American Prospect , which frequently demands a

hike in the minimum wage, offers a $100 weekly stipend for a full-time

internship. 

Some unions may pay you a bit more than that, namely $8.50 per hour,

to protest and chant outside worksites where contractors are not using

union labor.