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Primary challenger endorses former Governor, gets the cold shoulder from Ehrlich.
Only a few hours after Brian Murphy endorsed Bob Ehrlich and joined his primary challenger at a “unity” rally, Bob Ehrlich dismissed his primary opponent’s support.
While Brian Murphy graciously issued a statement endorsing the Republican party nominee, Bob Ehrlich took to the airwaves to settle the score. When asked by his WBAL radio show colleague Ron Smith if he was going to publicly embrace Murphy and call him a rising star, Ehrlich replied, “quite frankly we have a lot of rising stars in our party, we have people who have won races.”
Just because Brian Murphy pointed out the fiscal irresponsibility of the Ehrlich administration, that doesn’t mean Ehrlich has to shun him in public. It’s clear that Bob Ehrlich doesn’t have time for Brian Murphy and can’t even bring himself to compliment his former opponent.
Bob Ehrlich is creeping to the right after losing ground to his Republican-primary opponent and sluggish fundraising reports showing Bob Ehrlich with only $2 million in the bank – and Martin O’Malley with a 3 to 1 cash advantage – heading into the final months of the campaign.
Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Bob Ehrlich’s primary opponent has people talking — even Bob Ehrlich…
Shortly after Palin’s endorsement of Brian Murphy – Bob Ehrlich creeped to the right, giving an interview to the Institute on the Constitution, a conservative organization associated with the far right.
When the moderator pressed Ehrlich on the constitutional right to public education, saying that government should not provide education, Ehrlich replied that “the courts determine the constitution,” and has made “lots of dreadful decisions.”
What????
We know Bob Ehrlich didn’t fully-fund Thornton when he was in office. We know he raised college tuition by 40% and caused a crisis in public school construction, but does Bob Ehrlich really believe that we shouldn’t be funding public education?
It shouldn’t come as any surprise that Bob Ehrlich is upset about Sarah Palin’s endorsement. In 2008 Bob Ehrlich said that Sarah Palin is a “popular Governor, she’s a reformer, she’s a maverick, and she’s a budget hawk.” “She’s a solid performer and she brings excitement to the ticket….” (WBAL, 8/30/08).
When speaking about her debate performance in 2008 Ehrlich brags, “big time debates — it’s pressure…. So I think Sarah Palin, in the two most pressurized situations possible, has performed very well.” (AUDIO)
But after being snubbed by the TEA Party darling, what’s Bob saying now?
“In the debates, I obviously don’t think she did as well.” (VIDEO | 7:53)
Can you blame him? Palin is forcing Bob to the right.
The day after the endorsement, his campaign released a statement contending that the endorsement “reaffirms Bob Ehrlich’s Independence,” and highlighted that he was “not bound to a particular ideology.”
Not bound to a particular ideology, Bob? That’s not what you told the Institute on the Constitution.
