ASS - Porter Edition

It seems CongrASSman Jon Porter is trying to avoid "W" for his upcoming bid for re-election. Is it because he knows "W" is a losing cause, or that he will lose being seen with "Mr. 28%"? Regardless, both are losers and should not be in office!!!

Las Vegas Sun's Jon Ralston:

In 2003, 2004 and 2005, Porter supported Bush 86.7 percent of the time, the Congressional Quarterly found. Porter has been a nearly unwavering backer of the president’s strategy in Iraq while rarely disagreeing with him on any major issue. He was against the SCHIP expansion before he was for it, but the second vote was a rare divergence.

But at least Porter can add SCHIP to his usual “I’m not a rubber stamp” act because Yucca Mountain has been a lame and lonely staple of that rhetorical emptiness. But Porter’s fuzzy memory of the way he and the president were back in April 2006 at (where else?) The Venetian is hardly surprising.

Porter doesn’t live in a vacuum. He has watched the parade of retirements by Republican incumbents as pundits forecast the coming GOP apocalypse in Campaign ’08. And he is in a district where Democrats now have a slight registration advantage and where he barely held on to his seat (by 4,000 votes) in 2006.

That’s why he will be even more targeted than he has been in the past — and Porter is used to being targeted by the national Democrats and now by Nevada’s Democrat Numero Uno Harry Reid, who might just believe Porter will be running for a higher office come 2010 should he survive 2008.

And so Porter — or his campaign advisers — has rewritten every line of his previous Bush fealty, which seemed so simple that day at Gondolier Numero Uno’s place, when raising money trumped any Bush albatross. Perhaps not so this time.