If there is one thing Alex Sink is very good at, it’s snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Ahead seven points in a recent poll conducted for the Tampa Bay Times, Sink will likely give some of those points back after voters in Florida’s 13th Congressional District hear what she has to say on Bay News 9’s Political Connections.
According to the Times’ Adam Smith, Sink says a recent Congressional Budget Office report that projects that the healthcare law will prompt many Americans to work fewer hours in order to qualify for a greater government subsidy of their healthcare is an “exciting prospect.”
This morning, Republicans are seizing on Sink’s comments.
“Alex Sink is out-of-touch with Pinellas families if she thinks costing our economy over 2 million jobs is an ‘exciting prospect,’ ” said NRCC spokeswoman Katie Prill. “The last thing Pinellas County needs in Congress is a career politician who will stand with Nancy Pelosi to protect Obamacare while it hurts seniors, middle class families and costs us jobs.”
Prill’s comments may be hyperbolic, but just barely. This is a gaffe by a candidate who seems to serve up more unforced errors than a washed-up tennis player.
I’m only joking when I say Sink sounds like a socialist — her comments on Political Connections aren’t as bad as Republicans are making them out — but plan on $500,000 worth of TV ads coming this way with Sink’s words “exciting prospect” at the center of them.
