Where are you?
Posted on 05/15/2008 3:57:41 AM PDT by Rummyfan
On the very day of a special election to fill a vacated congressional seat this week in Mississippi, The New York Times accused the Republican candidate of running racist ads against his Democratic opponent.
Talk about dirty tricks! By The New York Times, that is.
The Republican thus accused of racism narrowly lost the election the night the Times article appeared, so I guess the Times can proclaim: "Mission Accomplished."
The ad in question, on behalf of Republican Greg Davis, pointed out that Barack Obama had endorsed Davis' opponent, Travis Childers -- another in a long line of fake-American goobers claiming to be "conservative Democrats," but who get to Congress and promptly vote to ban guns, surrender in Iraq and fund full-term abortions.
These days, I guess you can call yourself a "conservative Democrat" if you refrain from being sworn into Congress with your hand on a Quran.
The ad showed a clip of Obama's pastor g-damning America and mentioned Obama's recent remarks ridiculing rural folks for clinging to guns. It then concluded that Childers "took Obama's endorsement over our conservative values."
The Republicans had also run ads connecting Childers with other Washington liberals, such as Nancy Pelosi and John Kerry. (Times editors are still looking for the racist angle to those ads.)
To call that ad racist is a monstrous libel. Greg Davis and the Mississippi Republicans should bring a defamation action against The New York Times -- although such an action might be perceived as "racist" because some black people work at the Times.
Republicans are constantly linking the local hayseed Democrat to national liberals like John Kerry. The technique goes back at least to Michael Dukakis in 1988.
It is beyond outrageous for liberals to complain about the practice of linking Democrats to the national party when their calculated strategy in race after race in the red states has been to run Democratic candidates who appear to be Americans. They're not Americans. They're liberals! I don't care how much hay is sticking out of their straw hats.
In the 2006 midterm elections, Sen. Chuck Schumer and erstwhile ballerina Rep. Rahm Emanuel (now there's a couple of raw-boned Americans for you!) famously rounded up yokels from the local square dance contests to run as "macho Dems" -- as the Times admiringly called them. Schumer and the ballerina were hailed for their brilliant strategy to fool the hayseeds.
The phony blue-collar Democrats won their elections by driving around in pickup trucks and shooting guns, then moved to Washington and began voting against war in Iraq and in favor of taxpayer-funded abortions.
One of the Democrats' paragons of regular guy-ness that year was Jon Tester of Montana, who wore cowboy boots and had a buzz cut. The crew cut absolutely transfixed liberals in places like Manhattan. Search "Jon Tester and crew cut" on Google, and you'll get more than 200,000 hits. Even this tonsorial affectation was a liberal fake-out, inasmuch as Tester has no military service.
After campaigning throughout Montana in a pickup truck, Tester got to Washington and compiled a voting record more liberal than Chuck Schumer's, according to the liberal Americans for Democratic Action (Tester: 95 percent; Schumer: 90 percent). Tester also has a 100 percent rating from the pro-abortion group NARAL. There's your truck driving, gun-totin' Democrat.
Sen. Bob Casey Jr. was another consumer fraud perpetrated on voters in 2006 by the Democrats. Casey ran for office on the strength of his father's name and his alleged pro-life position. It was the pro-life position of his father -- the popular Democratic governor of Pennsylvania -- that disqualified Casey Sr. from speaking at the Democratic National Convention in 1992.
Despite rumors that Schumer had assured Hillary Clinton that Casey was not really pro-life, the good people of Pennsylvania made him their senator, throwing out Rick Santorum, the kind of pro-lifer who actually opposes abortion.
In Casey's first year in office, he voted in favor of an amendment to a foreign appropriations bill introduced by the fanatically pro-abortion Barbara Boxer that overturned U.S. policy against providing taxpayer money to groups that perform abortions overseas. It also granted overseas abortion providers taxpayer money. There's a "pro-life Democrat" for you.
In elections in the patriotic parts of the country, Democrats keep producing candidates that look like they're out of a Norman Rockwell painting but vote like Karl Marx -- which is to say, they vote like the typical member of the Democratic Party. Naturally, Republicans respond to this tactic by linking the local phonies to the national party.
As soon as the Democrats stop running these mountebanks, Republicans will stop exposing them as lickspittles for their liberal masters in Washington.
Where are you?
Where are you?
Ann gets it right... when will alleged “conservatives” in these districts stop falling for Democrats who “run right?”
When the GOP gets off its gold plated pedestal and decides to start backing conservatives.
Republicans will continue to lose until they grow a backbone and learn to effectively deal with liberal mud slinging.
I simply can not imagine that any conservative running for office does not expect to be called a racist, homophobic, misogynistic baby killer.
Every criticism of Obama...or that even invokes Obama’s name...is “racist” doncha know.
Just call him barry hussanus.
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“Black nationalists” have many similarities to Nazi brownshirts. They believe in irrationality, racial myths, and anti-Semitism. They rely on violence or the threat of violence to advance their cause. They foster paranoid conspiracy theories, fear dissent, and encourage groupthink.
Ann is at her best when she uses facts to rip RATS. Maybe we should run pseudo-liberals to counter the Rats pseudo-conservatives.
If someone makes a comment about the size of his ears that will be worse than calling him Hussein. He is very sensitive about his ear size.
Not really. The reality is that the GOP strategy of trying to inject the Obama-Wright issue into local-state-district elections is not going to work.
Second, it is not conservatives who are falling for Democrats who "run right", it is the right wing populists.
If voters are dumb enough to fall for the “conservative Democrat” myth then they get what they deserve. Unfortunately they will drag all of us down. Perhaps it will take a few years of socialism, $10 gas, ever increasing taxes, and losses of personal freedoms before the pendulum swings the other way and the Reid/Pelosi forces get thrown out. Sadly though 1980/1994 style elections don’t happen too often.
Even Juan Williams on Fox said Tuesday night that if you say anything against Obama the mainstream media will call you a racist pig. Juan Williams, for heaven’s sake!
So what? How many people in Missouri who might have voted for the Republican candidate read the New York Times the day of the election at all, never mind read it and then switched their vote?
Mainly because so many people are too stupid to understand that electing any Democrat, at any level of government, always empowers the far left. Even with the RINOs in Congress giving the GOP a majority, conservatives had a voice. With the Democrat party running the show now, where do all these fake conservative Democrats get to impose a conservative agenda, even if they really wanted to? That hasn't, and will never, happen.
Ann pointed out this "technique". I assume Ann is also smart enough to know that calling Pubbies racists is a "technique" of the left.
Politics ain't pretty. The Dems won this won. Is the Pubbie "technique" more "fair" than the Rat one?. One of Ann's dumber columns. I guess her morale is low. But pictures are always nice.
Maybe just “Famous Husseinnus”
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