Cookie cutter politics?

by: joesaho

Fri Oct 17, 2008 at 10:36:52 AM EDT

Sohn's take was that Himes only had "generic ideas and cookie cutter comments", as if acknowledging the economic dire straits facing Connecticut voters is somehow "cookie cutter". And yet when asked to highlight Shays's performance, Sohn gave...

...a cookie cutter response about experience, bipartisanship (awesome) and  understanding the "realities" of how Congress works.

It strikes me as more than a bit odd that the last Republican Congressman in New England (he made a joke about being an "endangered species") who makes no effort to conceal his desire to hitch his wagon to Barack Obama in what is unequivocally viewed as a change election, would make a point to remind voters that Congress is an unresponsive, unproductive institution. If anything, Obama voters who really do believe in change will come to the conclusion that changing the Presidency is not likely to be enough. We've heard the "experience to get things done" argument before, and the bipartisanship argument before, in Lieberman's 2006 campaign. I don't think it's gonna work for Shays this time around, no matter how tightly he pretends to cling to Obama.