We've previously discussed "Republicans for Carney," but yesterday Chris Carney uploaded a video of the supporters to accompany their testimonials and provide an added emphasis.
Two points of discussion from the video:
First, it will be interesting to see how long Carney keeps up this "Republicans for Carney" charade. At the end of the video, an E-mail address is made available for supporters to submit their own testimonials. It appears Carney wants to continue adding names to his enumerated conversion list over on his campaign's web page.
Second, from the clips provided in the video, Carney used the event to discuss his commitment to bipartisanship. Near the end of the video, Carney proclaims: "Folks, we don't improve this country until we end the partisanship that has plagued us for so many years."
It was a nice gesture, but that message rings rather hallow given what his campaign has displayed thus far. He's bitterly attacked Hackett on a personal level, claimed Hackett is a "hypocrite" on taxes, claimed Hackett is only interested in energy solutions because of his personal investments, attempted to politicize Hackett's 10 Principles by suggesting they are meant to "scare seniors", and implied that Hackett had no personal understanding of what morals are. All this comes less than three months into the campaign with only more intense attacks likely to come later this year.
As growing national attention continues to follow the race in the 10th District, it would be a great gesture if Carney began to finally embrace his own rhetoric of moving beyond bitter partisanship and personal attacks, and instead concentrated on the substantive issues at hand.
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