It's time to stop the Corey Booker bashing

[jaysunb]

What's done is done, and we need not to give more ammunition to the other side.

Hilary Rosen and Corey Booker are just 2 people that have misspoke and need to be benched for awhile.

Mean while, we need to focus on GOTV and fund raising in Wisconsin.

Let's not get distracted from the task at hand.

Go Wisconsin Democrats !

[leveymg]

1. No, Hilary Rosen needs to elevated and carried around the room. Bench Booker - no, give him a

One-Way Ticket on a Path Train to Wall Street, which is where his true heart seems to be, anyway, and that's where he's probably headed eventually.

[madinmaryland]

5. You know, you can ride the path train all night back and forth between Hoboken and WTC...

for a single fare. I had a friend that passed out on the train and woke up to the morning commute.

Oops!

[tblue]

6. What I wish Hillary Rosen had said:

"I wasn't talking about mothers. I was talking bout Ann Romney."

The only thing Hillary did wrong was not stand her ground (sorry for using that term). She apologized for something she didn't do! And she caved in to the hypocritical whiners way too soon.

Booker, on the other hand, actually sided with the hypocrites!

I won't throw him under the bus just yet. But I'm keeping an eye on him.

[Drunken Irishman]

2. He didn't misspeak.

When someone misspeaks, they say something they didn't mean to say. He meant to say this.

Until Booker comes out and says, "I screwed up. I was wrong. Mitt Romney is everything that is wrong with private equity and gives it a bad name. Bain ruined lives and communities and if Romney wants to run on his record at Bain, he has to also run on the bad part of that record."

But even his walk back was lame.

[Raine]

3. Yup, Rosen misspoke, Booker did not

it was deliberate and planned. You don't misspeak something like what he said!

[qanda]

7. +1

Absolutely right! The greatest issue I have is that he sat there and bragged about his experience of having to eliminate jobs as a defense to Romney's work at Bain. Well, now we now where he stands.... Talk about nauseating!

[SunsetDreams]

15. exactly Bain and Financial Industry Gave Over $565,000 To Newark Mayor Cory Booker For 2002 Campaign

A ThinkProgress examination of New Jersey campaign finance records for Booker’s first run for Mayor — back in 2002 — suggests a possible reason for his unease with attacks on Bain Capital and venture capital. They were among his earliest and most generous backers.

Contributions to his 2002 campaign from venture capitalists, investors, and big Wall Street bankers brought him more than $115,000 for his 2002 campaign. Among those contributing to his campaign were John Connaughton ($2,000), Steve Pagliuca ($2,200), Jonathan Lavine ($1,000) — all of Bain Capital. While the forms are not totally clear, it appears the campaign raised less than $800,000 total, making this a significant percentage.

He and his slate also jointly raised funds for the “Booker Team for Newark” joint committee. They received more than $450,000 for the 2002 campaign from the sector — including a pair of $15,400 contributions from Bain Capital Managing Directors Joshua Bekenstein and Mark Nunnelly. It appears that for the initial campaign and runoff, the slate raised less than $4 million — again making this a sizable chunk.

In all — just in his first Mayoral run — Booker’s committees received more than $565,000 from the people he was defending. At least $36,000 of that came from folks at Romney’s old firm.

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/05/21/488002/bain-financial-industy-gave-over-565000-to-newark-mayor-cory-booker-for-2002-campaign/

Interesting eh?

[rusty fender]

22. And in his interview with Rachel

he talked about how people in "his community" were hurting. Has he ever pleaded with his private equity contributors to create jobs in "his community"?

[CTyankee]

23. that whine of his has already gotten weaker. I watched him on

Rachel and he just seemed to be coming apart at the seams. He was defending what he said and then blaming the media for picking up what he said. Now he's "frustrated" and all mad that the republicans are running him in an anti-Obama ad. Boo hoo, Cory. What did you expect, a dozen red roses from the White House?

Cory Booker is weak sauce. He's a whiner and a two faced liar. He wants to have his Bain cake and eat it too. The Obama campaign is right to read him the riot act.

He's gonna end up in the worse of all possible worlds: the Dems won't want him and the Repubs only want to use him, like they care about what happens to his "community"!

[senseandsensibility]

4. I find the bashing encouraging.

But I hope it's followed with some real consequences, politically speaking, from the administration.

[spanone]

8. booker didn't misspeak. he was loud and clear.

hilary rosen spoke the truth.

other than that, we completely agree!!

[freshwest]

9. Yes, nothing would be more demoralizing than a loss in Wisconsin.

[freshwest]

27. Although the Koch brother connection with both Booker and Walker is important.

They must be outted continually, lest anyone forget who is the real power behind these men, their words and their actions.

[vanlassie]

10. Kindly share why you would defend someone

Who is clearly in bed with the 1percent?

[jaysunb]

11. Not defending the indefensible

but we've got work to do and standing around looking at spilled milk is counter productive.

[jeff47]

12. You can't get work done when your party's rising stars are pissing all over your work. (nt)

[bigtree]

13. I think it's an effective way to lurch the debate back on focus

. . . to restore the pressure on Romney and Bain our party and campaign took months and months generating. Booker can take care of himself.

[Major Hogwash]

14. Sounds like something said by a Rothschild supporter.

Nevermind, let's just move on.
Forget the fact that she called the President a nigger, and made references to pictures of him that he looks like he has a bone through his nose.

Yeah, right.
I'll forget about it later.

When I'm dead and gone!

[jaysunb]

21. Clue me in

I must have missed something.

[Logical]

16. I can GOTV and call booker an asshole at the same time!

[AtomicKitten]

17. A multitasker!

[Logical]

18. Thanks! n-t

[jaysunb]

20. I Luv Ya !

Let's go get'em.

[Stinky The Clown]

19. Rosen didn't "misspeak" at all. She was right, but political cowards set her adrift.

[datasuspect]

24. thank you for your concern

[NNN0LHI]

25. Let them go

When people are talking about Bain we are winning.

Don

[B2G]

26. and it seems like only yesterday

DU was crowning him the nominee in 2016. My, how things change.

[Puzzledtraveller]

28. No, they can speak their minds, and be accountable.

Saying they need to be benched is pure BS.