Who's kidding whom?? Bob Ehrlich's ego would love to have Republican stars show up for him. Problem is none of them want to waste their time on a loser - except Rudy Giuliani who is a loser himself. If Rudy is the best Bobby can do, it says something about Bobby's standing in the national party. He's toast!! PLEASE DO NOT VOTE FOR BOB EHRLICH.

Funny. Ehrlich and Palin are peas in a pod. The only difference is that Palin wears her vicious, ignorant, hateful politics on her sleeve, while Ehrlich keeps it all hidden beneath the veneer of a "moderate". Just because you don't go screaming your bile from the rooftops doesn't mean you aren't a loon. If Bobby Smooth gets elected he'll fill Annapolis with Palin-heads and tea partiers galore - all on the taxpayers dime.

"In general, he said the long speeches and crowded rallies designed to showcase the stars can be unpleasant. “You can’t hear. People get bored and they leave,” he said. "

Ehrlich is speaking about himself.

Ehrlich doesn't want Palin campaigning here because he knows most Marylanders think she's a joke. Our electorate is a bit more sophisticated than your average "tea party". Having someone like her around would only enflame opinion against Ehrlich.

"Sophisticated" = liberal code word for "We think we're smarter than everyone else and know what's best for you. That's the same elitist term used when comparing Montgomery County to the rest of the state.

Sarah Palin and Bob Ehrlich have a lot in common.

Both are full of hot air about taxing and spending, but both raised taxes, accepted federal bailout dollars, transferred funds to cover deficits, and left their successors with huge budget gaps to close.

- Steve Lebowitz, Annapolis

Hey Steve Lebowitz your idol Martin OMalley has done the same-
raised taxes as both Mayor and Governor, transferred funds to cover shortfalls and accepted bail out money. MOM had stimulus money budgeted into the 2011 budget thats not coming, raiding yet another fund to cover that hole.
After November MOM will be leaving Ehrlich a deficit to clean up too.
WHATS YOUR POINT?

The Owe'Malley bots are on the loose today. Ehrlich doesn't need Palin to get voters motivated, Owe'Malley and his deceitful campaign tactics are working just fine.

Hey Steve, you might want to do some research before you start kungfu typing. Owe'Malley inherited quite a surplus from Ehrlich's previous time in office. He went through it like Grant went through Richmond. Now we all have to pay the price. Owe'Malley is done for in Maryland.

The Tea Bag Party are just “haters not debaters” or as others have dubbed them “screamers not dreamers”, with their failed attempts at stopping Healthcare reform, they say they respect the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence but they do not mind passing laws, through weak Governors (no one voted for this crazy) who only cares about getting elected Governor, on the backs of undocumented workers, that will not pass Constitution muster.

Brewer signed into law;
1. S.B. 1070,
2. No permit conceal weapons law,
3. The famous Birthers law,
4. Banning Ethnic studies law,
5. Banning human-animal hybrid (aren’t most GOPers crossed with the Reptilian race?)
or are they just giving Laurence Gonzales, some great promotion material for his new book “Lucy”.

6. Could she be behind the Mural in Prescott, Arizona, ordered to be whiten,
7. On deck to pass, no citizenship to babies born to undocumented workers,

8. If she can read she should look up Arizona’s House Bill 2779 from two years ago (which was un-constitution and failed when legally challenged),
9. The boycotted Martin Luther King Day, what idiots don’t want another holiday? Yes, you guessed it Arizona.

Well Arizona, you can boycott new holidays and keep passing crazy laws and the rest of us will continue to challenged them in a court of law and continue to add cities to our Boycott of your state.

I real cannot believe anything that comes out of Brewer’s mouth, in an interview she first said her father had died in Germany fighting the Nazi in World War II (war ended 1945) but of course we find out the truth that father was never in Germany and died in California in 1955. But we are suppose to believe everything else she says, right! No one voted for you for Governor, yet you keep listening to the tiny brains of the crazies and signing into law everything that comes into their feeble minds, it only make you look dumb, stupid or racist, or maybe all three.

As for the Tea Bag Party, their phony patriotism is sickening; they are just racists going by another name. We all know you are just itching to put a sheet on their head? Let’s face it the Republicans had eight years to deal with health care, immigration, energy (remember Cheney’s secret meetings with oil companies where loosening regulation and oversight were sealed), climate change and financial oversight and governance and they failed. It appears that the Republican Party is only good at starting wars (two in eight years, with fat contracts to friends of Cheney/Bush) but not at winning wars as seen by the continuing line of body bags that keep coming home. The Republicans party will continue turned inward to their old fashion obstructionist party (and their Confederacy appreciation roots) because they continue to allow a small portions (but very loud portion) of their party of “birthers, baggers and blowhards” to rule their party. I will admit that this fringe is very good at playing “Follow the Leader” by listening to their dullard leaders, Beck, Hedgecock, Hannity, O’Reilly, Rush, Savage, Sarah Bailin, Orly Taitz, Victoria Jackson, Michele Bachmann and the rest of the Blowhards and acting as ill programmed robots (they have already acted against doctors that perform abortions).

The Birthers and the Tea Bag party crowd think they can scare, intimidate and force others to go along with them by comments like “This time we came unarmed”, let me tell you something not all ex-military join the fringe militia crazies who don’t pay taxes and run around with face paint in the parks playing commando, the majority are mature and understand that the world is more complicated and grey than the black and white that these simpleton make it out to be and that my friend is the point. The world is complicated and people like Hamilton, Lincoln, and Roosevelt believed that we should use government a little to increase social mobility, now it’s about dancing around the claim of government is the problem. The sainted Reagan passed the biggest tax increase in American history and as a result federal employment increased, but facts are lost when mired in mysticism and superstition. For a party that gave us Abraham Lincoln, it is tragic that the ranks are filled with too many empty suits and the crazy Birthers who have not learned that the way our courts work is that you get a competent lawyer, verifiable facts and present them to a judge, if the facts are real and not half baked internet lies, then, and only then, do you proceed to trial. The Birthers seem to be having a problem with their so called “Internet facts”. Let’s face it no one will take the Birthers seriously until they win a case, but until then, you will continue to appear dumb, crazy or racist, or maybe all three. I heard that Orly Taitz now wants to investigate the “Republican 2009 Summer of Love” list: Assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), Board of Ed Chair, and Kristin Maguire AKA Bridget Keeney (SC), she wants to re-establish a family values party, that is like saying that the Catholic Church cares about the welling being of children in their care, too late for that. Yee Haw!

Nice misspelling in the title.

(*Nice catch! - AL)

Ever wonder why the liberals who post do it during working hours and the conservatives post at lunch time or evening?

Ehrlich is smart enough to know that having a Palin side show would not work well for his campaign.

The problem is this. Tea Party candidates will win a number of these congressional races because local districts are often safely partisan in nature. They can make their wild, unfounded claims, crazy accusations, etc., and win. That means not only are we likely to see an increase in Republican seats in both houses, we're likely to see more antics, more insanity, more stupidity. At the same time they're going to do everything they can to derail Obama's policies which will likely mean high unemployment, a moribund economy, and more compromises on policy positions that make no one happy.

That could literally mean that if the Republicans put up a legitimate candidate in 2012, they could win. Such a result is bad enough, but the likely response for the Democrats is to move further to the "middle" to placate voters. As we've seen over the last decade, the "middle" in American politics is basically on the verge of being an 80s Republican. Increasingly that means we'll have a political landscape of a conservative party and ratfuck insane parties. The former, given it's track record, slowly moving to the right, the latter, given it's track record, loudly screaming "socialism, communism, fascism!!!"

If we continue on this course, privatization will be socialism.

"We don't need big names to come in." This from a man who practically shoved his tongue down the throat of the Bush administration during the last election.

Too the "anonymous" individual who wasted his or her time typing the novella of hate about the "Tea Bag Party"- thanks. After a quick scan of your hackneyed, broken record postulation about how everyone is just a racist "waiting to put a sheet on their heads", I realized just how much power these individuals have over people like you.

Don't confuse 8 years of Bush with a true fiscally conservative movement. You may operate as an automoton mouthpiece for the "liberal" collective, but this state and this country are full of INDIVIDUALS (regardless of party affiliation) opening their eyes to the recklessness of the neo-conservatives and, more importantly, the Obamamaniacs. People with functioning brains, and an ability to absorb facts and process them in a non party-line toting fashion, will give our buddy Martin a run for his money this fall.

Gen. U.S. Grant didn't "go through Richmond," as alleged above by "Stunned"; he and his army went around Richmond. "Stunned" should treat facts with more respect!

"Owe'Malley"?
"He went through it like Grant went through Richmond"

The work of someone who wrote "Custard's Last Stance"
it's our favorite Uncle Jeff from Hagerstown.

I am a little confused with this statement:

"Also a large personality like Palin can eclipse the campaign. 'Our message is jobs and jobs and jobs and taxes and fiscal realities and jobs. And education and jobs.'"

I am going to guess the quote about jobs was taken from Erlich. Is he saying Sarah Palin does not bring or have a message about jobs, taxes and fiscal responsibility? I am sure she has said something about these things in a speech or facebook posting.

I want to take this opportunity to thank the Tea Party for electing Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown since he voted for the Financial Reform Bill and help the President of the United States with another legislative victory, thank you Tea Party. Have you heard of “Unintended Consequences” or “Blowback”? Was he working for the Tea Party, himself or our Country, hmmm only you can answer this one?

I can guarantee that Ehrlich doesn't want Palin in attendance because that will actually fire up the Democrats in Maryland to make it to the polls and vote for O'Malley. For those reading this not from Maryland, Maryland is a heavily Democratic state and doing something like bringing Palin in to endorse Ehrlich and make any sort of appearance would be the death of Ehrlich's own campaign. He is a smart man.

All you MOM boosters are out in full force. Ehrlich got ya a little worried? And this guy Libowitz, where did he gun his facts, MOM's spinning points? Oops, he must have made one of those "tactical mistakes".

Thanks for stopping by, Dogmeat.

I'm quite happy with Scott Brown.

He voted for the fake financial reform bill, which is fine. While there's no financial reform in it, it's generally harmless. So Scotty gets to look like a bipartisan compromiser to his leftist Massachusetts electorate by voting for a meaningless bill.

As for "helping the President," go ask your friends and neighbors, "Hey, what do think about that awesome financial reform? What a win, huh?" As if a complete farce of a bill written by the corrupt Dodd and Frank is going to swing any moderates or turn out any base.

Go Scotty B!!!

As for the overall Tea Party, sure there are some nuts. But mainstream Republicans (Boehner et. al.) are the ones who drove this country into a ditch along with Bush and the Democrats. We need reform so desperately that I'll take a few kooks along with the wave of reformers.

How did this story workout? Following John Wagner's lead is probably not a smart idea.