Republicans Want A Piece, Forrester Wants The Whole Thing

23 Responses to “Republicans Want A Piece, Forrester Wants The Whole Thing”

1. morpheus120 writes
   January 29th, 2009 5:29 pm

   Of course the Tennessee Republicans are racist assholes. That’s the biggest bloc of votes and they’re only interested in winning, not doing what’s right for Tennessee. They demonstrate that on a weekly basis and it won’t stop now that the Legislature gears up.

   Times they are a changin’, though. The Tennessee GOP has reached the high-water mark, provided that Forrester can herd the cats and get the state organized.

2. Johnny Cochran writes
   January 29th, 2009 5:35 pm

   That’s the biggest dodge I’ve seen since “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.”

3. Harrison writes
   January 29th, 2009 5:46 pm

   So we’ve learned three things here:

   1. Chip’s idea of rapid response is 4 days.

   2. Chip’s going to be a one-trick pony: Ask me about racism, don’t ask me about how I’m enamored with the income tax.

   3. Chip’s going to be loud and proud by demanding stuff with exclamation points! (”Let them answer the question!” I can almost hear him pounding his little fist.)

4. benintn writes
   January 29th, 2009 5:54 pm

   Gallup poll this week shows TN still leans Democrat

5. Kleinheider writes
   January 29th, 2009 5:55 pm

   Chip’s idea of rapid response is 4 days.

   In all fairness, this was a statement in a response to a question by me emailed around noontime today. His response arrived only hours later.

6. LeftWingCracker writes
   January 29th, 2009 5:59 pm

   Harrison, no one cares that you’ve lost $$$ now that Chip is in.

7. Harrison writes
   January 29th, 2009 6:09 pm

   What is this claim that I’ve lost dollars? I’m in sales; not partisan buffoonery. You, Quacker, are a fool. And a pro-Chip, pro-income tax zealot. This little Chip cult is creepy. He’s like your own personal L. Ron Hubbard.

8. Heatseeker writes
   January 29th, 2009 6:15 pm

   Where is Camp Chip? That merry band likes to sing hosannas to free and open debate, except when their guy gets caught on the wrong side of what has been the hottest debate in Tennessee in recent memory. But who can blame them for shutting the hell up when their guy won’t even address the topic? I mean, come on. What is that hamfisted, straight off the playground, non-response?

   A.C., your admission makes Forrester’s reply even worse. He puffed up his bony little chest Saturday and bravely proclaimed to a room full of supporters that he would immediately respond to Republican attacks with a “full frontal assault.” Four days later, he responds to a reporter’s questions with a half-assed duck and cover routine that’s about as nimble as a Mack truck plowing through an obstacle course.

   Someone give us a reasonable response here before we declare Tennessee a one-party state and skip the 2010 general election.

9. benindenial writes
   January 29th, 2009 6:27 pm

   That Gallup polling was done before Forreser ran half the Democrats out of the party. It also said that Oklahoma leans Democrat. Oklahoma? The state that Bill Clinton refused to visit until the last days of his presidency? That Oklahoma? Yeah, that’s a leaning Democrat state.

10. Alex writes
    January 29th, 2009 7:30 pm

    He still didn’t answer the question. How disappointing. At least he got Lincoln Davis out of the governor’s race.

11. Wintermute writes
    January 29th, 2009 7:50 pm

    So this is what this guy’s brilliant thinking is going to sound like. I’m barfing already. Upton, nota bene.

12. Oklahoman writes
    January 29th, 2009 7:57 pm

    In the 2008 presidential election, every Oklahoma county went for McCain. Obama won zero. It’s a red state, period.

13. Harrison writes
    January 29th, 2009 8:05 pm

    What, no response from the Chip-heads? Braisted: No comment on Chip’s ham-handed race-baiting? Jen and Lookingto2030: No defense of Chip’s love affair with the income tax? Goldeneye: Not going to condone Chip’s reckless use of exclamation points?! Bueller? Bueller?

14. Heatseeker writes
    January 29th, 2009 8:12 pm

    Harrison, you’re killing me! Hey, Chip Forrester makes Ben Steine look like Lou Ferrigno.

    Come on, where’s the Chipinistas? Out strumming Billy Bragg songs on a cheap ass acoustic in Daddy’s basement? Admiring the new Che t-shirt they bought online?

    Are they going to help Chip save the poor and downtrodden by slapping a fat ass income tax on all of us?

    Come on, why the silence?

15. Boss Crump writes
    January 29th, 2009 8:21 pm

    Upton, nota bene.

    Should anyone expect more from Forrester? Look at the mental midgets advising him. These are the guys that gave us Senator Ophelia Ford with her 13-vote special election landslide victory. These wizards won a special election in a district that’s over 70 percent Democratic by 13 votes. Just the guys we want running things.

16. Ana Garcia writes
    January 29th, 2009 8:56 pm

    I’d like to hear Forrestor respond to these attacks. Half the Democrats (including those in power) appear to despise him. What is going to be the solution there?

17. realopenminded writes
    January 29th, 2009 10:08 pm

    Chicken Little, the sky is falling, the sky is falling.!!!! Please. give me a break. Its only three or four irrelevant bloggers whom are expressing their hate for Chip. one week does not make a chairmanship. According to most of the people whom hate Chip, thinks his role is to form an implement public policy for Tennessee Democrats. To appoint leaders with the Democrats in the Legislature and to find Robin Smith and any high rank and file Republican in the State and get in their face and yell at them.Oh and he should make sandwiches for the House and Senate Caucus’s.

    And you keep talking about 1999??!! This is 2009.Has anyone thought he may have adjusted his stance do the the time and other experiences over those 10years. Did you guys break your xbox’s or what. Stop worrying about Chip and the TNDP if you are not trying to advance the party from 09′ and beyond

18. TennRod writes
    January 29th, 2009 10:35 pm

    The way to advance this party is not with Chip Forrester. He is a total disaster for Tennessee Democrats. Whatever we might win in 2010, it will be done outside the TNDP. Individual campaigns, the caucuses, DGA, DCCC, probably a new and independent financing organization for Dems.

19. Milton writes
    January 29th, 2009 10:49 pm

    So Forrester tries to pull a sleight of hand. Even though he is obviously no Bob Rochelle, I predict that he will pull a page from the ol’ reptile’s playbook. Before long, Forrester will issue a statement to the effect that during a crisis brought on by the fiscal mismanagement of Republican Governor Don Sundquist, he believed an income tax was necessary. But he has now seen the light because Governor Phil Bredesen has shown us that the state budget can be balanced without new taxes.

    He should ask Senator Mae Beavers how well that tactic worked for Rochelle.

20. realopenminded writes
    January 29th, 2009 11:19 pm

    More people and groups besides just the for mentioned “Obama extremists” will be aiding the party state-wide. Strategies will be implemented that have not be devised before. If you want to worry, worry that the House and the Senate caucus don’t pick DINO’s like in 08′ who tried to out republican the republicans in rural TN.

    Time will tell, we will follow a new progressive model while you gleeful republicans will continue to follow the “wink, wink” “you betcha” “hey Joe, pass me a “wink Wink” six pack” method for all the rebel flag toting, unemployed southerners here.

21. Harrison writes
    January 30th, 2009 4:19 am

    Yes, you’re right. Instead let’s recruit an effete, preppy, yuppy, bow-tie sporting, Docksider-wearing, salon-hosting, Perrier-sipping, income tax-loving party chairman to show us the road to victory. Here’s a question for realcluelessminded: Have you ever been to rural Tennessee? Or better yet: Ever even been to Joelton?

22. Heatseeker writes
    January 30th, 2009 7:44 am

    all the rebel flag toting, unemployed southerners here.

    Hey, realop . . . screw typing all that. Hey, dumb ass, tell me how you and Chip intend to get rural Tennesseans to vote for your income-tax loving candidates when you insult them every chance you get. I’ll give Chip credit for being intellectually honest enough to directly call them racists. If you want to call them dumb, poor, and racist, just come out and say it.

    Looks like we’ve seen that big secret strategy of Chip’s - scream “RACISM!!!” about everything and salt your press releases with exclamation points for effect. What a genius!

23. CoverBothSides writes
    January 30th, 2009 9:45 am

    He says the income tax attacks are a smoke screen to avoid talking about the Repubs racist views.

    Chutzpah - using a smoke screen to avoid an attack while saying the attack itself was a smoke screen.

    I see what you did there.