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December 15, 2007

More on AuCoin's world-class blunder

It looks like others are asking questions about former Congressman Les AuCoin's appalling mauling of the facts in his endorsement of Steve Novick.

As BDunn notes in his post, AuCoin's factual errors completely gut his stated rational for preferring Novick over Jeff Merkley. Although it should be noted that in his updated version of the post, Les AuCoin sweeps the factual errors aside and hangs his hat on the fact that Kafoury voted against HR2 and that she supports Novick. Which is an interesting tact considering that of the 5 legislative Dems who voted against the resolution Kafoury is the only one who is backing Novick - the others all back Merkley.

Even in his updated post AuCoin continues to misunderstand how the GOP trap that was HR2 worked. He insists that the only way to get caught in the trap was to vote "yes" on HR2. Not withstanding the fact that I've already debunked that notion, his implied argument makes no common sense.

How can a "trap" include a built-in escape (ie, vote "no" and you escape)?

More important than AuCoin's continued misunderstanding of how a partisan "trap" works is Novick's continued misunderstanding of the same. AuCoin's days of representing Oregonians are over and thus his miscomprehension of GOP rhetorical traps can't harm us. But Novick wants to be our next Senator.

Do you want a Senator who literally thinks his way out of grasping a simple partisan trap? I know that I don't.

Posted by Kevin at December 15, 2007 12:37 PM