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GOP election tactic: Scare voters with Pelosi - Party chairman says she would 'weaken America'
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 9/16/6 | Edward Epstein

Posted on 09/16/2006 8:54:24 PM PDT by SmithL

Washington -- The Republican national chairman said Friday that his party's campaign to keep control of the House in the November midterm elections will focus on what he called the dangers to America if San Francisco's Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi becomes speaker of the House.

It's a strategy Republicans already are deploying across the country in some of the hardest-fought contests. But analysts, pointing toward the political problems President Bush has created for his party, question whether the tactic will work.

A Democratic-controlled House led by Pelosi, derided by Republicans as a "San Francisco liberal'' since she was elected House minority leader in November 2002, would approve policies that would "weaken America,'' Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman said at a breakfast with reporters.

Pelosi's potential role as House speaker is a legitimate issue in House races because voters "are going to (ask) what would a 'Speaker Pelosi' mean in terms of policy?'' Mehlman said.

Republicans have raised the specter of a "Speaker Pelosi'' as they try to prevent the Democrats from picking up the 15 seats the minority party needs to win control of the House for the first time since 1994. The Republicans admit 2006 has shaped up as a tough year, with the party weighed down by Bush's low approval ratings, the war in Iraq, high gasoline prices and economic unease.

In Indiana, Republican state Chairman Murray Clark on Tuesday linked Pelosi with three Indiana Democratic House challengers as the trio prepared to visit Washington for a party fund-raiser.

"She doesn't represent Hoosier values on the war on terror, tax cuts or border security,'' Clark said in a statement. "Don't forget that a vote for the Democrats is a vote to give San Francisco more power."

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2006election; communists; congress; congresselection; cultureofcorruption; election2006; elections; liberals; pelosi; scaryliberals
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1 posted on 09/16/2006 8:54:26 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

BOO !

2 posted on 09/16/2006 8:57:22 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: SmithL

I have stared down the barrels of guns, been shot at by police, ran from the law, gone wild boar hunting with a pistol, had the double yellow line passing directly beneath the eyeport of my helmet while the right handgrip was twisted back as far as it would go...... and that idiot wench scares the doo-doo out of me if she were third in line to the Presidency.


3 posted on 09/16/2006 8:59:13 PM PDT by 308MBR (When you call islam "medieval", muslims get mad and act even more "medieval".)
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To: SmithL

The best thing we have going for us is that our opponents are Democrats.


4 posted on 09/16/2006 8:59:34 PM PDT by SmoothTalker
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To: SmithL
Pelosi would weaken America!
5 posted on 09/16/2006 9:02:36 PM PDT by FreeRep
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To: SmithL
Tie democRAT canidates to the radical base, and it's over. Show clips of code pink in front of walter reed, fat ass Moore shooting off this stupid mouth, just pick anyone you want. Mainstream American should respond by striking them down.
6 posted on 09/16/2006 9:05:46 PM PDT by 12th_Monkey
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To: martin_fierro

gosh, you skeered me


7 posted on 09/16/2006 9:07:30 PM PDT by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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To: SmithL
"San Francisco liberal'' is a powerful code. "It carries all kinds of connotations. It means a nonreligious, pro-gay, weak on defense, tree-hugging flake of some sort.''

sounds exactly like the Gavin Newsome crowd down their in SF.

8 posted on 09/16/2006 9:09:21 PM PDT by DuxFan4ever (The next rational liberal I meet will be the first.)
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To: SmithL
It's not a tactic it is the truth.

The woman would be a disaster if she was able to control conference committees and presenting pending business to the House for a vote among the other duties she would screw up.

The woman is a bona fide moron and the only reason she is where she is, is because too many voters in her district are morons.

It is the duty of her opposition to point out her numerous weaknesses and faults that would with no uncertainty endanger the nation.

9 posted on 09/16/2006 9:12:40 PM PDT by A message (We who care, Can Not Fail)
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To: 308MBR

Oh me too, when I first landed in Vietnam I killed the first 40 Cong with a popsicle stick and a rubberband. Then I did a double pirouette and sacked another 50 with a slingshot and my boot laces. But yet, this bugged eyed San Fran lib don't scare me one bit.


10 posted on 09/16/2006 9:15:53 PM PDT by Phibes
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To: martin_fierro

She IS pretty scarey!!!!!!

Almost as Scary as Barbara Streisand in Spookyvision from South Park.


11 posted on 09/16/2006 9:17:59 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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To: Phibes

You're just too danged funny dude.

Actually, the folks who back her policies and pay for her campaigns are the ones who are scary.


12 posted on 09/16/2006 9:18:46 PM PDT by 308MBR (When you call islam "medieval", muslims get mad and act even more "medieval".)
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To: martin_fierro

Google eyes is pretty scary.


13 posted on 09/16/2006 9:19:27 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
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To: SmoothTalker

Well said.


14 posted on 09/16/2006 9:21:05 PM PDT by skr (We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.-- Ronald Reagan)
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To: 308MBR

Yes sir I agree. I was not mocking you're comment. I was just having fun with San Fran Nan. LOL


15 posted on 09/16/2006 9:21:20 PM PDT by Phibes
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To: SmithL

well - no one can criticize the GOP for not telling the truth!


16 posted on 09/16/2006 9:21:23 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: Phibes

Please, disregard my obliviousness.

Good to meet you!


17 posted on 09/16/2006 9:23:20 PM PDT by 308MBR (When you call islam "medieval", muslims get mad and act even more "medieval".)
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To: SmithL
Harry Reid is just as bad and that hasn't worked.
Unless it just hasn't happened yet.
Like Tom Daschel
18 posted on 09/16/2006 9:31:36 PM PDT by cjmae (Sanity was not equally distributed)
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To: SmithL

She's just plain weird. We all have good reason to be afraid.


19 posted on 09/16/2006 9:39:11 PM PDT by My2Cents (A pirate's life for me.)
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To: SmithL
I am afeared!!
20 posted on 09/16/2006 9:39:27 PM PDT by msnimje (Terror Deniers + Holocaust Deniers = A Match made in Hell.)
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