What Issues Concern Debra Bartoshevich?
I was watching our local Colorado news after the DNC tonight. John McCain had a commercial featuring a Hillary Clinton supporter who said she was voting for McCain.
The ad said she was a “Former Hillary Delegate” and she claimed she was voting for McCain’s “experience and judgement.” This intrigued me because she was obviously very involved in the political process if she became a delegate, so she must be really concerned about the issues. So I started researching to feed my curiosity.
On May 5th, her local newspaper said:
Debra Bartoshevich of Waterford was elected to be a delegate for Clinton. Bartoshevich, who has worked as an emergency room nurse at Columbia-St. Mary’s Hospital in Milwaukee for 15 years, said she got involved because of the need for people to have access to health care.
“I support her because of her universal health care plan,” she said in a speech before the votes were cast. “I see the devastating consequences of diseases on the uninsured.”
If McCain were smart he would use Debra to tout his universal health care plan. Nobody is going to take her seriously if they think “experience” is her hot button issue, will they?
The uninformed dumbass/bitter and spiteful vote.
Bob:
I’ll let the comment stay because it speaks to a conspiracy hypothesis I have about that…
These campaigns (on both sides) are sophisticated, well-oiled machines. The messages you see coming from the ads and speeches are well thought out, researched and focus grouped. Should I really believe the McCain campaign is relying on someone who is just acting flaky? I’m suspicious that this lady was part of a strategy conjured up well before the Wisconsin primary. By then, Rush Limbaugh had operation chaos in high gear. Republicans were showing up in large numbers to vote for Hillary Clinton and it was obvious the GOP was going to use the bitterness of Clinton supporters as a wedge to pick off democratic voters. I don’t think it is too crazy to think they also had people posing as democrats with the intent of becoming eventual “Democratic delegates who support McCain.”
Is it?