Tommy Sowers Flip and Flop

Leave it to Tommy Sowers the political scientist to figure out how to take two very convenient positions on the health care issue: first, here is Sowers on the freshly-passed health care bill (April 9, 2010):  "I think it is going to be a good thing for the Eighth Congressional District." 

Cut to July 25th -- here's Sowers again: "The bill was far too complex and expensive but I don't advocate a full repeal."  How about a partial repeal, Tommy, would you support that?  We doubt it.

What changed in three months?  Oh, just about a half a million dollars in campaign contributions from wealthy out-of-state left-wing Nancy Pelosi liberals.  Clearly, Tommy Sowers is done with them, and they are most likely done with him after election sages like Stu Rothenberg and Charlie Cook are questioning the sanity of any big-time liberal dumping dollars into a race were the Democrat trails by 50 points -- Tommy Sowers is down roughly one point for each incumbent Democrat on the verge of losing a seat in the House this November.

Now that Tommy has extracted as much money as he can from Hollywood liberals and Wall Street, he'll try to 'run to the right' - but he shouldn't delude himself into thinking that his track record won't follow him.

Tommy has our sympathy.  It's hard to raise a million dollars from liberals on the coasts and run as a conservative in Missouri.  It's even harder to back down from pro-Obamacare, pro-cap-and-trade, job-killing policy positions and a negative campaign that lets everyone in on the secret that you care more about impressing your donors than you do about the time-honored civil political discourse of an opponent as popular and forthright as the one you have chosen.

Comments

[lbj]

Tommy has spent $25000 on a pollster, but will not release poll results. He boasts about his money, why not about his polling results? Maybe because Emerson is still up by about 50 points. Can't wait til November.

[TimTheToolMan]

I used to "get a kick" out of reading your blog, but in the past several months it has become nothing but lies, lies and more lies... I guess you have nothing better to do than to think of B.S. you can post about democrats. Your blog entry = FAIL

[lbj]

Tommy spent $25000 last quarter on a pollster, but will not release the poll results. I guess he's just too modest to do so. Inquiring minds want to know the poll results.

[TimTheToolMan]

Lots of candidates (and members of Congress) do polling of their district to get voters opinion of various issues. It was NOT a poll of him vers. JAE.