Three Green Miles over at RK put words in Senator John Ensign’s mouth about the Virginia Senate race. Here’s what Ensign – head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee – actually said (Wall Street Journal):
Ensign identified the 10 most competitive races in the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Alaska, Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Virginia. Two — Virginia and New Mexico — are heavily favored at this point to flip to Democratic control. Asked if the NRSC was mulling walking away from these two races to focus resources elsewhere, Ensign was non-committal, but added, “You don’t waste money on races that don’t need it or you can’t win.”
Now, just to recap, Ensign includes Virginia as one of the “most competitive races” in the country. Then, while making a very rational assessment about where you put your financial resources, he refuses to say Virginia is a state where the party “can’t win.”
Yet TGM magically transformed the above into this (you can find the link yourself):
Even the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee thinks November is going to be a Reservoir Dogs-level bloodbath. Which we all know to be true. But amazing that Ensign is willing to torpedo Jim Gilmore’s candidacy so publicly.
Perhaps TGM didn’t realize that Ensign was speaking English, rather than Warnerese.
