A Commercial That Should Have Aired on the Real Tube - David Robinson for Congress
As you pop your corn and crack open your favorite cold beverage to sit back and watch Barack Obama tonight, don’t forget about the great Democratic candidates who are left behind this cycle. Candidates like David Robinson running to unseat career politician Pat Tiberi from the seat which was handed down to him by John Kasich.
It’s astonishing really. Barack Obama has so much money left in the tank six days out that he will be able to go out tonight and spend 30 unininterrupted minutes and several millions of dollars to seal his deal with America. On the other hand, you have an accomplished businessman with ideas and an energy policy who can’t get the people who hold Democratic pursestrings to throw a little love his way.
It’s true, Robinson is a neophyte in politics. Rumor has it his campaign is a bit haphazard and he’s fairly set in his ways of wanting to do things differently. Well friends, he won the fucking primary why hasn’t Labor or the DCCC ponied up. Well, there’s also the argument that his district is solidly red. The former Democratic candidate spent over a million dollars and lost against Tiberi who is really a backbenching, pathetic sack of internal organs. They say, we have to marshall our resources — Ohio 12 isn’t on the list.
Well, guess what. Voter registration is up in OH-12. Shamansky was past his prime. Shamansky is no David Robinson. A long time ago when I was peripherally involved with the DCCC, Robinson was a candidate party leaders would have died for … handsome, well-spoken, smart, full of ideas - and wait - the vice-president of a small manufacturing business? Are you kidding? Let’s put some money down on this guy.
Perhaps party leaders need to rethink how the wealth is spread in the Democratic Party. Candidates should have to meet standards, but they should also be able to run the race they want to run. We can fund the hell out of a cranky old candidate whose baggage has made her race more difficult than it should be, but we can’t help Robinson mount any sort of a media campaign? If Tiberi weren’t so pathetic, I wouldn’t be so exercised. All I’m saying is let’s expand the metrics we judge candidates on when we have a do-nothing, Bush clone incumbent and a dynamic Democrat to challenge.
Well, when the earth moves next Tuesday and we pick up more seats in the U.S. House and hopefully get to 60 in the Senate, our party will have left David Robinson behind.
If we’re on TV for 30 minutes tonight, it’s obvious the resources were there.
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