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GOPer Campaigns On 'Fulfilling Bush's Vision' On Social Security
MS-01 House candidate Angela McGlowan (R)
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While Washington Republicans are running from plans to privatize Social Security, one GOP House candidate in the south loves the idea and goes a step further - calling on her primary rival to unite behind George W. Bush.
We've been tracking where House Republicans stand on Rep. Paul Ryan's budget "roadmap" and noticed at Republican candidate Angela McGlowan has been talking about it in Mississippi's 1st Congressional district. Last week TPMDC wrote about that snaring the GOP's preferred candidate, state Sen. Alan Nunnelee on camera as he dodged a question about where he stands on the Ryan plan.
McGlowan, a former Fox News commentator, is taking it a step farther. She's challenging Nunnelee to join her in support of privatization. In a release Nunnelee said she was fully embracing Bush's 2005-era plan to "save Social Security."
"As Mississippi's next member of Congress, I pledge to pick up the mantle of President George W. Bush's battle to save Social Security - a program upon which so many of our elderly neighbors in Mississippi depend," she said in a statement.
"To this end, I would encourage Senator Nunnelee to join me and vow his unequivocal support of the individual retirement accounts that were an integral part of the President's vision and would protect and preserve Social Security for generations of hard working Mississippians to come," McGlowan added. "Together, Senator Nunnelee and I can send a powerful message to liberal House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: one of us is coming to Congress to fulfill President Bush's vision for Social Security, so get ready to deal with it Nancy."
We called Nunnelee last week and this week for a response. We'll update if his spokesman gets back to us.
The two Republicans are facing off in a primary and aim to challenge Rep. Travis Childers (D-MS).
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fkaZk0sm0
March 8, 2010 5:30 PM
so, she wants to keep the "Social Security" brand (why not, it's one of the US gov't's strongest brands) but put it on an inferior product that undermines everything that made the brand strong in the first place... like New Coke!
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Nancy Irving
March 8, 2010 11:39 PM in reply to fkaZk0sm0
Yes--the fad for "branding" in business always involved taking a prestigious product and sucking every possible penny out of its prestige by replacing its parts or ingredients with progressively cheaper ones, until the prestige of the brand was gone entirely.
And then they wondered why the brand was no longer worth anything!
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Beetlejuice
March 9, 2010 9:45 AM in reply to Nancy Irving
I'm reading NoLogo and I've realized branding is what republican rely on to get their message out. Their base firmly believes in the republican brand. Tea-baggers are those who have realized the brand isn't made of the same quality it once was. But they aren't impress with the Democrat brand either.
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Sailormarlowe
March 8, 2010 5:38 PM
I say, I say there, Kingfish: Miss Angela, she a fine figure of a woman, and she think right, too. Yeah...Vote for her next time...
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shooter242
March 8, 2010 6:10 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
My, my. How racist, not to mention sexist. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.
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worthy9
March 8, 2010 6:34 PM in reply to shooter242
Sailorman is a conservative troll (check all his previous posts) and, for once, I agree with you.
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lousgirl84
March 8, 2010 9:35 PM in reply to worthy9
Shooter knows sailormarlowe. they roll the same.
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Matt Jones
March 8, 2010 9:02 PM in reply to shooter242
Yay for hot hot Troll on Troll action!
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jeffgee
March 8, 2010 8:18 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
Shallowman, your alliterative admiration of precious Palin were amusing but now you're just another tedious troll.
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realist
March 8, 2010 5:50 PM
Warped, greedy, ______________ (you supply side the rest).
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mans_best_friend
March 8, 2010 5:54 PM
Run on Dubya's legacy. Good plan.
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Knothead Jake
March 8, 2010 5:59 PM
Is there anything more amusing than a blac.k equivalent to Caribou Barbie? C'mon. Geez there goes her base.
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regular_joe
March 8, 2010 6:04 PM
Yes! Let's all unite behind George W. Bush! What a great idea!
After all, Bush's presidency was one smashing success after another:
Yes, Bush's presidency will long be remembered ... as an abject failure.
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masanf
March 8, 2010 7:33 PM in reply to regular_joe
Given the smashing "successes" of the Obama administration, it won't be long before the country IS pining for the halcyon days of the Bush administration. Christ, Obama makes Jimmy Carter look like George Washington.
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CityGuy
March 8, 2010 7:46 PM in reply to masanf
You dream sir! Nobody has forgotten the dismal failure of Shrub's deadly (Iraq; New Orleans) administration. Obama will never be half the failure that George W. Bush was. And Obama still has a lot of time left to prove his current critics wrong!
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Brownbagger
March 9, 2010 6:45 AM in reply to masanf
Don't forget 9/11.
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regular_joe
March 9, 2010 7:04 AM in reply to masanf
Apparently the trolls get really upset when we tell the truth on their heroes.
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Beetlejuice
March 9, 2010 9:48 AM in reply to regular_joe
didn't you get the memo? it's all Obama's fault.
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FreeRider
March 8, 2010 6:33 PM
Judge Joe Brown endorsed her so she's a shoo-in. {rolling eyes}
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chriss1519
March 8, 2010 6:53 PM
"I pledge to pick up the mantle of President George W. Bush..."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
What a dumbshit.
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masanf
March 8, 2010 7:31 PM in reply to chriss1519
If anyone would have said anything similar about OBama half the idiots on this site (which means half of the leftists here)would be crying racism.
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Viva!America!
March 8, 2010 8:23 PM in reply to masanf
It's obvious you wouldn't recognize racism if it slapped you in the face. I could tell which classes you cut in high school or are you still in high school?
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expat46
March 8, 2010 8:50 PM in reply to masanf
Please explain how anything chriss1519 just said could be considered racist?
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Marinus van der Lubbe
March 9, 2010 7:47 AM in reply to expat46
Dont waste your time. That racist troll never answers a challenge let alone posting any facts on here. He's another cowardly racist piece of shit.
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lousgirl84
March 9, 2010 9:34 AM in reply to Marinus van der Lubbe
masanf is like a broken record - same old script every day.
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lousgirl84
March 9, 2010 9:37 AM in reply to masanf
since this is a left-leaning website, what did you expect. if you don't like it leave.
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Marinus van der Lubbe
March 9, 2010 10:28 AM in reply to masanf
Do you ever do anything but whine and piss and moan? You never print facts, when challenged you ignore the post, and just what the fuck do you expect from a left leaning website? If I went to RedState, I would expect the same bullshit from the right. You are delusional and stupid besides. And a pussy for never proving your points when asked to. Prevaricate somewhere else as you just are a piece of shit in here.
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Sir T
March 8, 2010 7:05 PM
Isn't this the plan that called for investing the SS money in the stock market and paying the recipients out of the profits?
That would have really worked well if so...
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slb
March 9, 2010 1:11 AM in reply to Sir T
Yeah, somebody should draw up a graph showing what your funds would have done had there been a private account for you to invest in in 2005 and what they would have been worth each year afterward...
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Rich in NJ
March 8, 2010 7:19 PM
That woman has said some of the most offensive things about President Clinton that I have ever heard.
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slb
March 9, 2010 1:12 AM in reply to Rich in NJ
Why am I not surprised?
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Citoyen92
March 8, 2010 7:43 PM
Is that Rachel Paulose?
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dustbunny44
March 8, 2010 7:45 PM
"I pledge to pick up George W. Bush's mantle to save social security..."
So she wants to give our SS money to Wall St. to piss away with a govm't guarantee.
Please Please Mississippi, show her the proper door.
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Wellstone6
March 8, 2010 8:03 PM
I've seen this one on several shows on FOX, and she's a lying manipulator of the first order, expert at the race card.
Would not surprise me one whit if she got some serious GOP backing and made a showing here.
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Overreach THIS!
March 9, 2010 6:53 AM in reply to Wellstone6
From your description of her, it sounds like she'd be hot property, yes.
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DP1
March 8, 2010 8:04 PM
Ok, This seals the deal for me on my theory that any and all minorities that identify as Republican are pure, sheer, unadulterated idots!
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Nancy Irving
March 8, 2010 11:50 PM in reply to DP1
Not necessarily--some are merely opportunists.
Any black person willing to dis government actions which help black people is automatically guaranteed a cushy job drawing wingnut welfare.
It's not surprising that there are those who are willing to play traitor for that kind of emolument.
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Leftflank
March 8, 2010 8:11 PM
Her's a bush plan that might be embraced, pre-emptively kick her out before she can harm the country. She might have yellow-cake in her heels.
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Langx
March 8, 2010 8:40 PM
A female Clayton Bigsby.
http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=24400
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DaddyD
March 8, 2010 9:09 PM
All hail the Great (to-have-a-beer-with) Uniter Decider!
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ETSpoon
March 8, 2010 9:32 PM
Ms. McGlowan has the proper credentials for a female Republican politician, pretty, with an empty head. On second thought scratch that "female" reference...pretty, with an empty head describes Scott Brown too.
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slb
March 9, 2010 1:16 AM in reply to ETSpoon
Notice that she is striking the Katherine Harris pose...
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nanorich
March 8, 2010 10:41 PM
Her makeup is awesome.
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TaylorB1
March 9, 2010 12:14 AM
Hoo boy...these two GOP yahoos make a great case for the idea that any Dem is better these days than any GOP.
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BeeClone
March 9, 2010 12:24 AM
So there are people from Mississippi living in the pass, what next the repeal of the voting rights act?
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slb
March 9, 2010 1:14 AM
...Bush's 2005-era plan to "save Social Security."
Sort of like the Vietnam-era directive to "burn the village in order to save it."
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Kristin126
March 9, 2010 8:33 AM
Umm...Ms. McGlowan, why do you think Bush's plan was never actually implemented? Because the idea of privatizing SS polled so badly among the public Bush and Co had to abandon it. And that was before the nice big stock market crash. I'm sure the idea will be even more unpopular now.
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hewhoasks
March 9, 2010 9:17 AM in reply to Kristin126
Right. Bush had majorities in both houses and got approval of pretty much everything else he wanted. Not even the Republicans in Congress would give him his stepping stone to the destruction of Social Security (which is what it was. There was and is zero concern about retiree support in the hearts of those who would undo Social Security. They want to destroy the program. Nicely enough, many financial industry people could also rake in fantastic amounts of money while the bubble inflates. They would contribute very willingly to the Republican party and candidates.)
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hewhoasks
March 9, 2010 9:12 AM
Bush never had a plan. All he did was talk up generalities. Don't you remember? He said it was up to Congress to come up with a plan. (Of course he had something, else he couldn't have told several audiences that retirees would not be allowed to touch their principal during their lifetimes. They'd have to live on the "interest". "Dividends" was beyond his comprehension. Pretty clearly the undisclosed plan Bush based those comments on was crafted to delay the crash that would come when retirees in significant numbers began dipping into their principal. The crash could only be delayed, not avoided.) The fable is that everyone could "get rich" playing the stock market. Can't. It's just a market, not a magic money machine.
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toddincabo
March 9, 2010 9:21 AM
I thought Palin was the new Bush with a bush.
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Tim Fuller
March 9, 2010 11:37 AM
http://umfreedom.com/2010/02/21/mcglowan-snubs-constitution/
Enjoy.
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