Ben Nelson Fights Back Against Liberal Smears

HuffPo:

Senator Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) lashed out Friday at the ads being run against his position on health care reform in his home state, saying they would backfire -- and might even derail the entire reform process.

In a statement issued late in the afternoon by Nelson's office, spokesman Jake Thompson warned that if the new series of ads calling out the Senator's "stalling" on reform were "an indication of the politics going into August, then health care reform may be dead by the end of August."

"Nebraskans don't need outside special interest groups telling them what to think. Senator Nelson has nothing but praise for Nebraska groups working toward health care reform. Unfortunately, he says, these outside groups undermine the sincere and dedicated efforts of people in our state," Thompson wrote. "Recently, similar ads have run in Nebraska. Those ads by other special interests prompted hundreds of Nebraskans to call our offices, with 9 to 1 urging Senator Nelson to do exactly the opposite of what the special interest group wanted. In short, the ads backfired."

The hard brush-back by Nelson's staff reflects just how heated the health care debate has become even within the Democratic Party. On Friday morning, two liberal groups, Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) and Democracy for America, launched a new ad using the testimony of a Nebraska businessman to call out Nelson for holding up health care legislation in the Senate. The spot was one in a series of television spots the groups have launched targeting the senator.

This is what you get when you're a Democrat who dares to scrutinize or question the liberal Obama agenda. It's the ruthless arrogance of the Far-Left to denounce, demean and/or threaten those who don't agree with them. The vast majority of Nebraskans are conservative and don't support Ted Kennedy's socialist idea of health care reform that Barry is trying to bully onto the masses. These are Ben Nelson's constituents, yunno, those who voted to put him into office. Ads by far-Left, special-interest groups are just going to motivate the conservative base, so yeah keep at it.