Democrat Heidi Heitkamp Makes It Clear She’ll Be Campaigning Against Obama This Year

Rob Port • January 18, 2012

If you’ve noticed that Democrat Heidi Heitkamp, who is running for the US Senate here in North Dakota, has been quiet since the media blitz surrounding that manufactured poll her campaign released you’re right. There hasn’t been much at all coming from Heitkamp’s campaign.

That’s because there hasn’t been a lot Heitkamp can talk about. Her outspoken support for President Obama is inconvenient given his unpopularity in North Dakota, as is her full-throated support for Obamacare. Even her work on anti-tobacco prohibitionism is inconvenient given that it reminds voters of her all-too-cozy relationship with a certain anti-tobacco trial lawyer.

But today Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline gave Heitkamp an opportunity to break her silence in a way she really can’t on any other issue:

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Heidi Heitkamp says President Barack Obama made a mistake in blocking the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

Heitkamp issued a statement Wednesday calling the Democratic president’s decision “the wrong one, plain and simple.”

Heitkamp says if she’s elected to the Senate, she’ll work with Republican Sen. John Hoeven to reverse the president’s decision.

Heitkamp says in a statement she’ll do this “even if it means upsetting members of my own party.”

Bold words, to be sure, though such pageantry is to be expected from a candidate who can only win by running away from both her party and the President.

Something Heitkamp will have a hard time doing given her lengthy track record of support for President Obama and the Democrats’ anti-energy policies in general.

Tags: Barack Obama, election 2012, Heidi Heitkamp, North Dakota News

Jamermorrow

Damn, she is ugly. LMFAO at that photo

http://sayanythingblog.com Rob

I don’t see how Heidi Heitkamp’s looks matter at all.

Jamermorrow

When it comes to women looks do matter.
Awfulorv

That’s because the lighting is good. You’d change your mind if you owed her a hundred bucks, and you saw her leading her Roller Ball team towards you down a dark Minot alley.

Spartacus

Separated at birth?

Anonymous

Earl was an incumbant that tried to spin that same line and still lost by 10 points.

opinionated

That is right and that guy was so blindsided by that same polling that Heidi is looking at… She has to lose and we have to make sure she does…. I cannot bear the thoughts of her people getting their mitts on all that money locked up!!!!

Sky Rider

So what else is new? The only way a left-wing loonytoon can get any traction is to side with the conservatives.
Anonymous

It took her this long to get approval for any level of dissent from the ObamaRegime…….

I suppose it takes awhile to get big money east coast left wing radicals to agree that islamic tactics are needed at this stage of the game……..
Jimmypop

now shes saying what needs to be said. not what will happen in reality.
Wesley Fargo

Did she say this in person or in an email from some diet camp she is rumored she is “training” at? I have not seen her on TV since November. Might the rumor be true? I don’t mean this to be rude or insulting, but her absence make folks wonder..
Rick Olson

Radio Commercial from Rick Berg: “Thank you for calling the Heidi Heitkamp for Senate hotline. Please listen carefully to the following menu, because the winds are blowing here and some of Heidi’s positions may change without warning. If you’re calling from Emily’s List to funnel another half a million dollars from liberals across the country, press one. If you think big oil is evil and determined to line their profit statements with your children’s college fund, press two. If you’re a supporter of big oil and agree with Heidi that it’s a big investment opportunity, press three. If you are a criminal that Heidi Heitkamp plea bargained or paroled while she was attorney general and you just want to catch-up and say ‘thanks,’ press four. Otherwise, please press zero and someone will be with you shortly and tell you what you want to hear!”

opinionated

I love you Rick… You are so clever…..That was sheer brilliance… and funny

Rick Olson

It would even be funnier if such an ad ran during Joel Heitkamp’s radio show. I get this picture in my mind of him taking a sip of coffee during a commercial break and this spot comes on, and he spits the coffee across the room. ROTFL!!

Opinionated

There is no way that would air and there is no way that Heidi is going to take random questions from callers. i loved it when he would talk to Dorgan or Conrad and pretend like they were hard at work and they were trying to f us all up…. (pardon my french) They never let any of us ask them any real question they just went on and on about how wonderful they were while Joel sat with his tingling leg.

Rick Olson

Not to go off on a tangent about Joel Heitkamp, but if his sister wins the nomination, I just don’t see how he can avoid doing anything but take a leave of absence during the campaign. There is no way he could be objective about the campaign. He’ll take cheap shots against whoever Heidi’s opponent will be at will (we assume Rick Berg). He’ll praise the stars about his sister and proably cry a little about her breast cancer scare. In order to steer clear of FCC regulations, I think he would have to all be silent about her candidacy on the show.

You are right, such a commercial wouldn’t air on KFGO. At least during Joel Heitkamp’s morning show, given that Joel is the operations director of the station.

By the way, similar radio ads played in Minnesota six years during Mark Kennedy’s campaign against Amy Klobuchar. They were funny as heck, but there was no beating the Klobuchar name, especially in the metro Twin Cities counties. Senator Klobuchar’s dad is the legendary Jim Klobuchar, who wrote for the Star Tribune newspaper in Minneapolis for about 30 years until his retirement a few years ago. Amy was the elected county attorney of Hennepin County before she was elected to the U.S. Senate.

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