Delusions of grandeur

by | Jun 2, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Debates, Editor's Blog, NC Politics, US Senate | 12 comments

Last week, Kay Hagan responded to an offer by the North Carolina Association of Broadcasters to host a debate by accepting their proposal and urging Thom Tillis to do so, too. In her letter, she encouraged Tillis and his campaign to agree to a debate schedule “worthy of the people of our great state.” 

So what did Tillis do? He called for ten debates. That’s right–ten. What an ass. Hagan made a decent proposal and he fires back with sophomoric one-upmanship. 

Jordan Shaw, Tillis’ spokesman, replied to Hagan’s letter, “We contacted the Broadcasters’ Association the day after the primary about participating in their debates. We have also accepted two additional opportunities to debates with the Bankers Association and the Medical Society.” So nanny-nanny-boo-boo.

Thom Tillis obviously doesn’t understand the public’s appetite for politics and quite clearly thinks he’s running for president. Nobody wants ten debates. They want enough opportunities to get a picture of both sides and information to help them make informed decisions. Nothing more, nothing less. This is not Lincoln-Douglas redux. 

The longer Thom Tillis is a candidate, the less of one he’s turning out to be. Tillis seems to care far more about the game of politics than the goals of politics. He puts out silly tweets making childish comments about his opponent’s campaign and now he’s suggesting the state is engrossed enough in this race to want ten debates. If it weren’t politics, he would be diagnosed as having delusions of grandeur. 

We need fewer people in Washington like Thom Tillis, not more. To Tillis, politics is an end in itself. He’s all about Thom and his career. He’s a perfect example of what’s wrong with politics. Everything’s got an angle and he’s always trying to score points. Just what we don’t need. 

12 Comments

  1. Ray

    If the NCAB didn’t invite all three candidates they should have to report the event’s expenses as campaign contributions to Kay and Thom. It would be an advertisement against voting for Sean Haugh. Or else let’s end campaign finance reporting.

    • Thomas Ricks

      Hey, I couldn’t agree more. Invite the libertarians. Ask them questions about Gold. Social Security. Publicly funded education. Medicare. Ask them about ALL the policies that make the Republicans least popular.

      • Ray

        The one thing you mentioned that Libertarians speak well of is mentioned in the Constitution, and the other three aren’t. I guess you’re saying the Constitution is unpopular. Interesting theory.

        • Thomas Ricks

          Let’s talk about the constitution openly. When someone wants to destroy so much of America and American society; medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, FEMA, OSHA, etc all are to be destroyed by the Libertaians.

          That environmental disaster that Duke Energy committed with the coal slurry? Libertarians want even less protection.

          The constitution, as much as they have turned it into trash, still protects us despite libertarian and tea party lies….but put a libertarian in charge and businesses will do whatever they want.

          The constitution is popular. The libertarian desecration of it is not. Time to get a new constitution that they can’t lie about.

          • Ray

            You’re a CARICUTARE assassin. I leave you to paint these ridiculous cartoons for the unsophisticated reader to swallow. You can only affect people who don’t know Libertarians.

  2. skip staples

    Thom Tillis only suggested 10 debates because that’s all the fingers he has. We need for him to go home and to stop pretending to be something he is not – a thinking, moral human being. He is one of the leaders of the gang of Beagle Boys in Raleigh who are dedicated to systematically looting our state.

  3. Mick

    Ten debates? That’s ridiculous. I’ll guess that Tillis is proposing that many because he will be done with the short session for 2014 while his opponent will still need to split her attention between the campaign and her job in D.C. Hence, he may think he’ll have her at a disadvantage.
    But be careful what you wish for, Mr. Tillis! If it’s 10 debates, people will be so bored and eye-glazed that they just might hold a grudge against you for insisting on that many. And Hagan might not be the best debater, but if the primary debates are any indication, you are certainly hardly charismatic or that well spoken. And while you will hammer Sen. Hagan endlessly on her support for the ACA (and in doing so, perhaps vexing the half million or so on NC’ers who enrolled), the 2012-2014 NCGA sessions have left plenty of issues/budget decisions for you to try to defend.
    I hope that, whatever number of debates are agreed to, she clearly lays out your role in limiting women’s health choices, denying Medicaid to so many, cutting unemployment aid, ignoring/denying climate change and sea level rise, hampering urban government fiscal options and decision-making, eliminating the EITC, giving tax breaks to the wealthy while raising sales tax on food and entertaining, allowing fracking chemicals to be kept secret from the public, and…oh, never mind. Like I said, the list of ways to assail your leadership and thinking, Mr. Tillis, is so very long.

  4. Someone from Main Street NC

    I can only imagine how bored even Thom Tillis will be to repeat “Kay Hagan supports Obamacare” in ten debates. He seems to have nothing else to say.

  5. Charles

    Obvious who you are voting for. I say, the more debates the better. Then we all can know and understand both candidates better, therefore not having to rely on the narrow minded opinions of pundits. The less time politicians spend in DC, the more time they can spend in there districts, debating or whatever. Where is Kay?

    • Thomas Ricks

      Obvious who YOU are voting for. If a conservative is speaking a conservative is lying.

      • Charles

        All politicias lie. Seems you belive the lies. That’s what they all want, people who they can controll without you even knowing it, just like you. Government is not the answer, it’s the problem.

  6. Randolph Voller

    Speaker Tillis was not nearly aggressive about requesting debates before and during the GOP primary. In fact he was criticized quite a bit for ducking events. The Speaker has a record that has played loudly and clearly in Raleigh since January of 2011 and it’s full of dissonant tones that have struck an ugly chord in North Carolina. It’s time for the music to end and let Mr. Tillis know that the show is over.

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