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New Feingold Ad Defends Obamacare Vote While Refusing to Mention the Bill

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) has been running a curious campaign. Historically one of the most liberal Senators on the Hill, he’s been running on a platform that resembles a moderate, and even refuses to be seen with President Obama in Wisconsin’s liberal capital of Madison.

His new campaign ad is equally curious. In a state that doesn’t approve of Obamacare, Feingold released a new add boasting about what he accomplished through the bill:

Feingold is currently trailing Republican challenger Ron Johnson, who favors repeal, by 12 points. Johnson has picked up on the sentiments of Wisconsin voters, and has been using Feingold’s Obamacare position to his advantage:

That makes the Feingold ad all the more confusing. But closer scrutiny reveals that Feingold’s ad is missing one key element: while it is seemingly meant to brag about Feingold’s vote for Obamacare, it never mentions the piece of legislation.

So does Feingold understand that the bill is so toxic it’s not even worth mentioning by name? It would seem that way.

That leaves one important question: why run the ad?

National Review’s Andrew Stiles offers a comparison:

Sort of reminiscent of Austin Powers, who, after being dealt a hand of five at the blackjack table, boldly declares “I’ll stay.”

Comments (40)

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  • 2Ball
    Posted on October 2, 2010 at 9:36am

    Check this article in the Racine Journal Times and read the comments. Feingold is history. He is a socialist/progressive tyrant.

    http://journaltimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/article_e72abc02-cda8-11df-ab49-001cc4c03286.html

    He and BO had to go to “Pinko U” in Madison to draw a crowd. It is going to be sweet revenge come November.

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  • honestyplease
    Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:41am

    “yeah baby…”

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  • Lemuel Haynes
    Posted on October 2, 2010 at 12:36am

    Feingold sure showed the insurance companies. I’m sure they are terribly upset about the mandate. By law, every American must buy their product and payment for coverage for those who can’t afford it will be guaranteed by taxpayers. I’m sure they really fought hard to prevent that. Also the “get your hands off my healthcare” line in Feingolds ad is hilarious. What the government gives, it can take away.

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  • broker0101
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:01pm

    I have had the “pleasure” of drinking quantities of beer at an historic Madison, WI watering hole, “Essen Haus” with Mr. Feingold before he became one of that great state’s Senators. He was a radical, liberal progressive then, as he is is today. I have, conversely, evolved from a misinformed University of Wisconsin undergrad, liberal-by-default to a staunch Constitutional Conservative. Hopefully, on November 2nd, 2010, Senator Feingold is shown the errors of his way in not following me in philosophical evolution.

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    • honestyplease
      Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:45am

      Glad to hear that you awakened from your stupor… If I could, I’d buy you a beer! Cheers…

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  • jcteaman
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:58pm

    anouther commie bites the dust anouther dos anouther dos anouther commie bites the dust, im singing sorry just happy

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  • tobywil2
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 8:16pm

    Having been 3 times elected Senator, Mr Fiengold is living proof that many of his constituents are intellectually challenged.
    http://commonsense21c.com/

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    • 338lapua
      Posted on October 1, 2010 at 9:19pm

      I really cannot argue with that….even though I never personally supported this goof, I never really worked hard enough to get rid of him. To be fair, election fraud is BIG business here. Busses show up at the polls with one registered voter(democrat) and 25 on site registrants who can legally be “vouched” for with no ID. I am serious. This has been going on forever, and our democrat controlled government perpetuates the fraud by not correcting it. There have been many opportunities but they all end up getting vetoed by the beneficiaries of the fraud. So to actually win here we need to beat the fraud numbers as well. This is easily 18,000 in Milwaukee alone. I have mentioned it before but I will say it again, it makes me want to puke.

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  • koyettsu
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 7:02pm

    Hell no we in Wisconsin do NOT support Feingold, he betrayed us, we begged him to listen to his constituents and not vote for the Health Care bill and he told us we don’t know what is good for us. We couldn’t even get him back here for town hall meetings, he was to busy.

    Well now he is seeing how pissed off we all are, we all got together, formed a huge Tea Party and have swarmed the Republican Victory Offices. Than the NRA folks showed up add to that all the Republicans and Independents and we have a massive force that has been working our a$$e$ off to show him what happens when you don’t listen to Americans in America.

    Politicians beware, we are done with you and this does NOT end in 2010!

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    • Contrarianthinker
      Posted on October 1, 2010 at 7:56pm

      What is your take on Johnson? He is suppoertive of Tea Party values and positions?

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    • bubbie
      Posted on October 1, 2010 at 8:04pm

      Amen!

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    • 338lapua
      Posted on October 1, 2010 at 9:11pm

      Good old Russ, lectured his constituents like we were fecel material stuck to the bottom of his shoe.I am certain we the people knew more about the legislation than good old russ. Didn’t keep him from dissing us. Suck it up buttercup, this is what you get. Ron Johnson is definitely the real deal, screw the poser.

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    • 2Ball
      Posted on October 2, 2010 at 9:46am

      I am from Racine and it is historically a slightly democratic leaning area. Paul Ryan is our congressman. With Ryan and Johnson at the tiller Wisconsin should be doing its part in helping to right the ship of state.

      People are really upset here and there is a very, very strong TEA movement here.

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  • Rickfromillinois
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 6:38pm

    You don’t really expect him to run on his actual record do you? After all, he is trying to get re-elected.

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    • 338lapua
      Posted on October 1, 2010 at 9:04pm

      Russ literally has no record. He has been (my) senator for 18 years and he has literally done nothing.The McCain/Feingold debacle has recently been declared unconstitutional……therefore, he has been warming a seat for that whole time. I am so proud…..

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  • heavyhand54
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 6:07pm

    Law makers couldn’t boil it down at all before they signed it. These ppl are supposed to be smart??? Go to the bank and fill out blank loan papers. When you ask about the blanks the banker just says we will fill it in later. Are you going to sign those BLANK papers? My conclusion…IDIOTS in Congress

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  • caitlynsdad
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 5:52pm

    I love these people who say, “Mention the bill.” How can you mention the bill when it’s 1000 pages and you only have a 30-second TV spot and you don’t have a bunch of lawyers to tell you what the bill means so you can boil it down to 30 seconds?

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  • BRAVEHEART
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 5:13pm

    Add your comments

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  • BRAVEHEART
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 5:12pm

    It appears that draining the swamp is going to be a monumental task. One impossible for anyone in the elite political ruling class to even properly comprehend. Having arrogant politicians act responsibly is equivelent to asking the Mafia to enforce anti-crime laws and operate all locale police agencies. Trusting politicans like Feingold is like investing your life savings in Florida Swamp-land! Only honest hard working Americans can Drain the Swamp!

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    • honestyplease
      Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:51am

      Drain the swamp… I get a kick out of all the people saying “drain the swamp”… wait, wait…
      Read the bill… I get a kick out of all the people saying “read the bill”… hee hee.
      Sorry, just having a bit of fun…

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  • tonkaslim
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 5:09pm

    Do these people think it will be “my health care” when the government is paying for it? Do they really think that unelected bureaucrats will be more benevolent than their insurance provider? If so, they are delusional.

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  • Meadhh
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 4:50pm

    Americans, the only hope we have to take back this country to the beliefs and values of the US Constitution is to vote. Vote all the incumbents out of office through 2014 and replace with common sense people who value, respect and will follow and govern constitutionally.

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  • hcnthree
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 4:48pm

    You may want to update the story though. Russ did make an appearance at the Madison rally. Rumors say he “got a call” from Harry Reid and suggested that he show up.

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  • Meadhh
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 4:45pm

    Obamacare – Biggest joke!!!!

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  • AmericanPatriot01
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 4:43pm

    My grandfather told me it doesnt matter how you dress up a pig or how much perfume you put on it, it is still a pig. Feigngold (intentional) and his fellow currupt compatriots need to be exposed for what they are. SELL-OUTS and Criminals.

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  • Polwatcher
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 4:33pm

    Doctors can’t be managed and insurance companies cannot be run by two year olds. That is why this whole federal health care bill will be an unmitigated disaster.

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  • A Extremist
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 4:32pm

    If only we could get Chucky Schumer along with Feingold.

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  • BoilitDown
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 4:13pm

    Clearly Feigold believes the constituants he is speaking to are predominantly the “para-site” class and not the informed electorate. It really doesn’t make any sense to continue defending the Obamacare monstrosity unless the union supporters have somehow threatened you.

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  • HUGGINGMYBABIES
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 4:10pm

    Being a cheesehead I think I can safely say its not even a race here anymore. We do have a low unemployment rate compared to the rest of the country and yet we have one of the poorest populations in Milwaukee and one of the worst school systems. Even the life long entitlement Democrats are voting Republican!

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  • FreedomOfSpeech
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 3:17pm

    Politically, I can understand the ad. Instead of talking about passing specific bills, he‘s appealing to people’s feelings. “This is what I did for you because I’m such a great guy.” I hope the guy gets booted out but it makes sense politically for Dems to talk about benefits of what they did rather than specific bills. The ad would sound a lot worse if the guy said, “This is what I did for you and it’s also going to bankrupt the country.”

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  • Susan Harkins
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 3:12pm

    Article says: “That leaves one important question: why run the ad?”

    I think it is pretty clear…The ad is run to convince Fielgold’s (so he thinks: dumb-as-a-box-of-rocks) constituants that his support of ObamaCare is a ‘good thing’ for them, and that they just need to see the details of the ‘goodness’ of it, without provoking their (supposedly primate) brains with the catch-phrase of ‘HealthCare’, such to cause some Pavlovian, salivating, angry response from them.

    Pretty sad, when politicians believe that their IQ is higher than their constituents (and thus, KNOW what is best for them), merely because they were voted into office to represent them. Using that line of reasoning, Obama would be convinced that he was GOD right about now…

    …oh, wait…hmmm

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  • BigPaulie
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 3:08pm

    Good counter ad. Russ is toast:)

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    • Okpulot Taha
      Posted on October 1, 2010 at 3:23pm

      BIG PAULIE comments, “Russ is toast.”

      Not true! Russ is burnt toast.

      This gap in voter trend is too wide for Feingold to close. Feingold is history. His avoiding this nightmare Obama-scare bill, avoiding Obama, none of this will help Feingold.

      This is interesting Feingold is not the only Democrat up for election who is avoiding the healthcare bill and keeping a good distance away from Obama. Barely two years in office and Obama is already toxic, already thought to be a kiss of political death.

      Okpulot Taha
      Choctaw Nation

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 3:07pm

    The Obama Tax Hikes’ Impact on Seniors: The top tax rates on qualified dividends are scheduled to jump from 15 percent to 39.6 percent on January 1, 2011. The left will claim that these tax hikes will only soak the rich while lower-income Americans will enjoy a free ride. This is false. Higher taxes on dividends will reduce the value of all corporate stocks traded in U.S. markets, regardless of who owns them. According to some estimates, the tax hike on dividends would cause stock prices to drop by more than $211 billion. The reduction in share values would happen almost immedi­ately at the beginning of 2011, or whenever Congress makes clear it will allow the rate to rise. Seniors hold the most stock of any demographic group, so the Obama tax hike is a direct assault on the retirement security of millions of Americans.

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