Mark Kennedy's strategy

Posted at 7:01 AM on August 17, 2006 by Mike Mulcahy

MPR's Mark Zdechlik has a piece today.

Here are some of the quotes. Norman Ornstein with the American Enterprise Institute says this about Kennedy's TV ad about working across party lines:

"You've got to almost laugh out loud when you see this coming from somebody who was so proud at saying that he was there as a loyal Republican with the president, and who's voted with his leadership in Congress consistently over all this time. For anybody who's followed this process at all, the notion of this really independent guy is kind of amusing. But let's face it, a lot of people don't follow this process all of the time, so it might work."

Kennedy's campaign manager Pat Pat Shortridge says this about the charge that Kennedy is distancing himself from the president.

"Just because Mark doesn't share the Democrats' sort of strange obsession with the president, just because he doesn't seem to want to talk about the president 24/7, doesn't mean we're running from anybody."

And:

"We're going to talk about Mark's record, we're going to talk about Mark's vision, we're going to talk about Mark's values. Call us old-fashioned, but in a race where Mark Kennedy's name is on the ballot, I think voters are going to expect that we're going to talk about exactly that -- Mark Kennedy."

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