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New web campaign allows Missourians to demand answers from Robin Carnahan

September 8, 2010

MOGOP Launches New Web Video

The Missouri Republican Party launched a new web video and website—www.QuestionsforCarnahan.com—that allows Missourians to demand answers from Robin Carnahan about why she supports the reckless Obama agenda.

“Over past 18 months, Missourians have come to realize that Robin Carnahan would rubberstamp nearly every major component of Barack Obama’s radical agenda—but she has refused to explain WHY she supports these unpopular, job-killing policies. With less than two months left until the 2010 election, it’s time to begin demanding answers,” said Lloyd Smith, Executive Director of the Missouri Republican Party.  “From health care to cap-and-tax to the failed stimulus to Proposition C and many others, Robin Carnahan stands on the wrong side of the issues.  Now, Missourians can find out why by visiting QuestionsforCarnahan.com and demanding answers for yourself.”

Missouri’s unemployment is unacceptably high at 9.2%, and 273,087 Missourians were out of work in July, but Robin Carnahan refuses to talk about the issues or present real solutions to solve our nation’s problems. Instead, she has launched a relentlessly negative campaign in a desperate attempt to distract from the fact that she would continue the failed liberal agenda.

Visitors to www.QuestionsforCarnahan.com can submit their own questions and demand answers of Carnahan via their online social networks.

To watch the Questions for Carnahan web video, click here.

Throughout the campaign, Missourians have gotten a brief glimpse into Carnahan’s rubberstamp support for the Obama’s liberal agenda.  This is what she has to answer for:

• Carnahan would rubberstamp the health care bill.
  • Radio Host: Just to be crystal clear, you would have voted for the health care reform bill?  Carnahan: Yes. (Carnahan on KCUR, May 7, 2010)

• Carnahan would rubberstamp the public option.
  • St Louis Beacon, November 11, 2009: Robin Carnahan reaffirmed her support Wednesday for some sort of a public option when it comes to health-care coverage.  “I’m less concerned about what we call it, than what it does,” said Carnahan during a brief interview.

• Carnahan would rubberstamp the failed stimulus bill.
  • Carnahan: “I don’t think it was an option to do nothing… People who kept saying no to everything … don’t have a lot of credibility on this stuff.” (Post-Dispatch, March 7, 2009)

• Carnahan would rubberstamp cap-and-tax.
  • AP, July 21, 2009: Carnahan said she could “support some kind of cap-and-trade” energy policy

• Carnahan would rubberstamp card-check.
  • St Louis Beacon, April 21, 2009: “Robin is supportive” of the Employee Free Choice Act, said campaign spokesman Tony Wyche.

• Carnahan would rubberstamp the closure of Guantanamo Bay.
  • Carnahan: “The Guantanamo Bay issue is one that we really need to get past. It has been used according to military experts, as a recruiting tool to get more terrorists to attack us, and so we need to do things that reflect our values. One of those is not to have these kind of off-shore prisons.”  (Springfield News-Leader, February 7, 2010)

• Carnahan would rubberstamp Obama’s oil drilling moratorium.
  • AP, June 4, 2010: Carnahan’s campaign said all new drilling should be put on hold for a while.

• Carnahan would rubberstamp Obama’s nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court.
  • AP, July 20, 2010: Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, the leading Democrat in Missouri’s Senate race, says she supports Kagan’s appointment. Carnahan says Kagan is qualified and understands the law. She says presidents should be given deference in their Supreme Court appointments.