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Enter Drew Pritt making countless anonymous comments disparaging the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor....

I didn't realize that Beebe was in gear. Given his press operation run by that awful douche Zac Wright and the comments by Max criticising Beebe's ability to respond, I hope that they haven't kicked into gear.

If they have, we're in trouble.

you mean like Halter is behind Adcraft suing him for what he did not pay...or Halter hacked into his web site...something like that?

Barth has a point. If Halter hadn't (briefly) challenged Beebe, Beebe would still be sitting on his ass with his feet propped up saying "I believe in Arkansas" surrounded by a bunch of yesmen and sprouting drivel and generalities and pandering to right wingers on social issues.

Oops. That's still what Beebe's doing, so never mind.

The difference between a Beebe campaign never challenged by Halter and a Beebe campaign challenged by Halter is that without any challenge, Beebe would spend the entire campaign on the golf course. The challenge shook up his routine to the extent that Beebe doesn't always play a full round, but still rides around in the golf cart too much expecting to be coronated in November. And still surrounded by yesmen.

Moot point...Beebe ain't gonna be the next Guv anyway...Halter ain't gonna be the next Lt. Guv either...that'a a fact

I do not think Beebe is in gear. But it doesn't matter, he'll be the next Governor easily, just as Halter will be the next Lt. Governor. This newspaper guy obviously had to string some words together to fill a space so he'd get a pay check this week. Good for Beebe and Halter. Good for Arkansas.

Beebe is running a steady campaign and is in the gear it needs to be in right now. Asa, well, dosen't matter if he was in high gear today, he's running on bald tires and will never get the traction he needs to win this. He's already a lap or two behind and it ain't gonna get any better for him. Just ask the business community in NWA.

Read Warwick's column before you call the race. Mike Beebe REAAALLLY screwed up here. He just had to try and make everybody like him - the result is nobody trusts him.

If any of you koolaid kids want to dispute that statement.
Ask yourselves why if NWA is where Asa's base is and where the money is - then why have the usual suspects who have come into AR trolling for dollars for Asa i.e. Rove, Rudy...have based these fundraiser almost exclusively in LR? Because NWA business has done the numbers and can see the handwriting on the wall. They're no dummies.

Cheney is coming to Springdale - McCain went to Rogers. You are an un-informed idiot.

Aww, did I step on a hammer toe?
I said "almost exclusively" - Rover, Miller, Rudy, McCain was in LR too if I recall, and wasn't Santorum in LR as well?
Cheney is coming to Springdale - duck!
Another observation, as long as I've got your hair on fire. Why is Asa and the Republican machine bringing in these boys, one after the other, almost day after day? Can't Asa raise money by picking up the phone? Says alot to me.

NWA Observer doesn't observe much up here in NWA. Every tenth car has an Asa or Holt sticker on it. I have yet to see a Beebe or Halter sticker. Beebe will do well to get 32 percent of the vote in the 3rd.

Stop the press! Beebe will not carry Benton County! What a shock and surprise! In other news, Richard Nixon is still dead. And it will be sunny tomorrow, clear to partly dark has hell tomorrow night.

Boy, you must be sitting in the parking lot of one of Armani Ronnie's orfice's to his ego, where Asa bumper stickers are required for admission to the show.
Or you need to go get your eyes checked.
I'm out everyday throughout the 540 cooridor - I couldn't count on both hands the number of Asa or Beebe bumper stickers I see every day - 6 days a week. They are few and far between from either camp.

32% - in 2002 - Jimmie Lou Fisher, who came into the race late, outspent by 3 to 1 and running against the sitting Governor - got 32%.

Mike Beebe - has outraised your boy 2 to 1, he's got higher name recognition, he's stayed in the state since birth and he's the sitting Attorney General. Can you honestly believe he's only getting 32%? If it makes you sleep better, go ahead and believe, but Beebe will go 42% easy.

Hey NWA dreamer, 32% if he is lucky maybe only 30%. Jimmie Lou was running against Mike Huckabee from Hope whose wife barely won Benton County. Asa represented the 3rd district and is beloved by the people - not Lee Scott but regular voters. He will get close to 70% and the turnout will be huge.

We will see in November won't we boy? But if you think Asa is "beloved by the people" you need to get out in the county more and start listening to how the "other" 75% (not the connected white boy Armani crowd) of the voters feel about Asa, his carpetbagging, penny stock and the stink of the DHS. The koolaide ain't a bright red as you might think.

This is absolutley false:

"Mike Beebe - he's got higher name recognition"

I do not accept that as absolutely false, unless you confine that to ONLY Benton County, then I will concure. The rest of the state - Beebe's got the clear edge.

Heck, NWA observer, you must not observe very well.

Even Holt has higher name id than Beebe.

Many dems acknowledge the name id problems with Beebe.

I disagree - and only time will tell, say early November. And one more time son, if you care about your candidate, you need to get out of your comfort zone. You got some problems, even in your own backyard.

Stonewall advocates in behalf of the gay community, but it is not an official auxiliary of the state Democratic Party. In fact, party officials barely acknowledge its existence, and Beebe admitted that he returned the group's check because he did not want to be publicly associated with it for Warick weekly editoral......

Dammit thats it i'm through with thesedems never vote for another one again im SO disappointed in the current so called democratic leaders.

Green and Indep. races all the way.

NWA observer you need to base your opinion on more than pillow talk with Robbyn Tumey. Talk to people at Home Depot on Saturday's or Wal- Mart on every other day.

What kind of chickendshit anonymous poster would talk smack about Beebe's stellar press advisor Zac Wright? He has more experience than anyone in the state -- 2000 Presidential campaign, Louisiana and Tennessee statewide races, congressional press secretary.

Beebe - and Arkansas Democrats - are lucky to have him.

What kind of chickendshit anonymous poster would talk smack about Beebe's stellar press advisor Zac Wright? He has more experience than anyone in the state -- 2000 Presidential campaign, Louisiana and Tennessee statewide races, congressional press secretary.

Beebe - and Arkansas Democrats - are lucky to have him.

http://www.cqpolitics.com/2006/07/ar_gov_edge_in_money_race_poll.html

Though the open-seat race for governor of Arkansas is expected to go down to the wire, it now appears that the Democratic nominee - state Attorney General Mike Beebe - has at least a slight edge over Republican Asa Hutchinson, a former House member (1997-2001) and high-ranking official in the Department of Homeland Security.

This is sort of beside the point --- well, way off the point --- but "Santorum" just kept ringing a bell with me in a negative way, so I googled "Santorum."
Go ahead, it's gross but funny as hell.
And this is Asa's new best friend?

Assa plans on using Santorum to lube his way into the Governor's chair. I tell ya, truth is better than fiction!

"Even Holt has higher name id than Beebe."

Seriously? God damn you guys are naive. I love the total lack of evidence on this one.

And by the way, you people that think Beebe is only going to get 30 percent in the 3rd district are out of your god damn minds. Jan Judy got over 38 percent. She is a liberal candidate from Fayetteville, running against an incumbent Republican congressman who has lived here forever, in a Presidential election year that also had the Gay marraige ammendment on the ballot. Optimum circumstances for the Republican party for sure, and Jan Judy still nearly got to 40 percent.

Sure, Asa will win the 3rd district. But Beebe will get at least 40 percent up here, probably at least 45. And turnout in NWA won't be enough to overcome the thrashing Asa will get in the other three congressional districts.

Anonymous | July 12, 2006 11:20 PM

That's what I been saying - I say 42. And I sure wish the wonder boy twinks (thank you Buddy) would stay over at the "Family" blog where all things are right with the world.

Bill Halter is Napoleon with Downs' syndrome.

No Santorum isn't lube, but the frothy by-product.
Get it right people!!!
Hilarious bit on the Daily Show tonight (Wednesday) about Santorum. Funny stuff.
Wasn't the rumor that a name with money was going to run against Beebe in the primary while WR and ASA! battled it out amongst the Repubs?
I seem to recall that the thinking went that nobody in the Beebe camp wanted to hear how the Guv's race would be his first opposed race. So they needed a fall guy and Halter stepped up. When WR dropped out, Halter made the move to Lite Guv. I may have my timeline off, but it seems that was the way it went.

Speaking of NWA, did anyone else catch the brief on Page 2 of the D*G's Wednesday Biz section?
The one from the UA professor who said Little Rock needed to get out of the way so NWA could grow and how the biz community should be outraged that Little Rock hates NWA and takes their tax money and spends it elsewhere.
Warwick, Max, that really deserves a thread of its own.
But my salient point.
If NWA is mad, then they should be mad at themselves and not Little Rock.
It is NWA that lacks a regional road authority. It is NWA that has two counties, four cities and numerous other towns clogging up the area and no organized, unified plan to make it better.
It wasn't all that long ago, maybe five years. that the backway from Fayetteville to the Mall went through Johnson and its one-lane bridges.
It always easier to blame someone else, than look at yourself.
But no ill word of NWA, Arkansas's land of milk and honey.

"Asa represented the 3rd district and is beloved by the people..."

Not in this neck of the 3rd he's not. He may carry this county but it will be in greatly reduced numbers than one would have thought. If Asa is in trouble here, that boy has real trouble.

I used to live in Philly. Santorum was more of an embarrassment than Huckster is in Arkansas.
He went on and on about tort reform, until his wife had a miscarriage and they sued the ob-gyn. Hyopcritical bastard!
Dan Savage, who writes a column titled "Savage Love," hit Santorum with the new definition: the frothy byproduct of anal sex, a mixture of sperm, fecal matter and lubrication.
Now that's Santorum!