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| In email to Dole, Orman explains the difference between a 'clown' and 'clown car' |
| 2014-11-04 |
| [Washington Post] Independent Kansas Senate candidate Greg Orman sent a 256-word e-mail to former Senate majority leader Bob Dole last Friday, denying that he referred to the Republican luminary as a "clown" last week. "I want to assure you that this is not true and is not my opinion of you in any way, shape or form," Orman wrote. "My reference to a 'clown car' was commenting on the near-endless number of political supporters of Senator [Pat] Roberts who have piled out of Washington to support him, none of whom I think are clowns. I certainly wasn't calling you - or any of the others supporting Senator Roberts - a 'clown.'" Speaking earlier last Friday, Orman derided the stream of GOP surrogates who have come to Kansas to boost Sen. Pat Roberts (R), three-term incumbent. Political visitors have included Willard MittRomney ...former governor of Massachussetts, the Publican nominee for president in 2012. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals.... , Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Rep. Paul Ryan ...U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, serving since 1999. He is a member of the Republican Party. He proposed an alternative to President Obama's 2011 budget and made himself the target of both Democrat and Republican verbal pies... (R-Wis.). "It sort of seems like a Washington establishment clown car to me. Every day a new person comes out of that car," Orman said. Dole, 91, shared the email with The Washington Post on Monday. In an interview, he described the e-mail as an "apology," and said he disagreed with the characterization of it by Orman's front man, who has called Orman's previously undisclosed note an attempt to set the record straight. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The difference: |
| Posted by: gorb 2014-11-04 00:35 |