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New Campaign Tactic: Democrats Pretend to Be Republicans
townhall.com ^ | 9/16/14 | Michael Schaus

Posted on 09/16/2014 10:33:32 AM PDT by cotton1706

I’m not Barack Obama. I disagree with him on guns, coal and the EPA.”

No. That sentence was not uttered by a right-wing, tea-party, Republican. It was uttered by a Democrat in Kentucky. Barack Obama is, apparently, so politically toxic that moderate Democrats are not content with merely distancing themselves from him; they are now actively campaigning against the Democrat who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

In fact, the ad is downright convincing… Frank Underwood would be proud:

Alright. So, Democrat Alison Grimes is no fan of team Obama. Got it. Of course, this kinda raises a few questions, doesn’t it? For example: If you don’t like Obama’s policies, why are you a Democrat?I mean, you don’t like the Democrat Party’s stance on guns, coal, or the EPA… So, why the leftist voter affiliation? (Was it just peer pressure? Liberalism is kinda like a drug: It is addictive, destructive, and most people discover it in their teenage years.)

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2014election; demspretend; elections
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1 posted on 09/16/2014 10:33:32 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Not new. They do it every election.


2 posted on 09/16/2014 10:34:32 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

So do a lot of Republicans.


3 posted on 09/16/2014 10:36:14 AM PDT by Ingtar (The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
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To: cotton1706

This Grimes ‘RAT is an evil anti-God abortionist.


4 posted on 09/16/2014 10:36:40 AM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: Ingtar

No, Republicans pretend they are Democrats to lose elections.

Pray America wakes up


5 posted on 09/16/2014 10:38:28 AM PDT by bray (Palin/Bibi 2016)
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To: SoothingDave
"Not new. They do it every election."

Because it works so well, people readily respond to lies, as the truth hurts their ears.

Lies are warm, tickling, fuzzy, while the truth is a burning iron, for those who have so little experience with it.

6 posted on 09/16/2014 10:43:33 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: cotton1706

Not new, they talk to the middle until after the election.
They also spend millions slandering Republicans and if that isn’t enough they fund third party Libertarians or other candidates to shave votes from the Republican.

Think Ross Perot. That’s been big lately.


7 posted on 09/16/2014 10:45:03 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: cotton1706
Joe the scumbag Manchin pulled this stunt in WV two years ago; got the NRA (among others) to endorse him.

He's a liar, and a backstabber, and an 0bammunist.

8 posted on 09/16/2014 10:45:04 AM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: cotton1706

I’ve noticed a lot of Republicans trying to be Democrats, and a few Democrats lying about being moderate, making some people think they are like Republicans. The closer we get to the election, the worse this nonsense will get.


9 posted on 09/16/2014 10:47:07 AM PDT by pallis
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To: SoothingDave

“Not new. They do it every election.”

Often at every level from local elections to national elections.

I have posted about a woman, we barely knew. She sent out a Christmas Card showing her at the White House with Hillliarirly and BJ Clintoon.

For some reason I saved it. About a year later she announced that she was running as a republican for a fairly important local election.

I sent a copy of the card to the GOP people in that county. In a few weeks later , the short time Republican, announced her withdrawal from the election.

We have the same thing on Free Republic, with wanna be Republican trolls trashing the party every time they post anything.


10 posted on 09/16/2014 10:50:45 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Our Sunni White house wasn't surprised at the beheadings. They are surprised at the outcry.)
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CON ARTIST DUMMYCRATS---DUPING VOTERS TO SAVE OBAMA'S ***

Breitbart.com reports that b/c of an increasingly hostile political landscape, Democrats are resorting to whining---asking voters to believe they have suddenly "seen the light" and are now conservatives.

In districts across the country, Democrats are campaigning as "true believers' in tax cuts, balanced budgets and for rolling back big government's harmful regulations.

The Dummycrats are so desperate, thry're even bleating about guns, fracking and coal....trying to appeal to the conservative heartland.

The list of Democrats carving out more conservative positions is too lengthy to mention. In fact, breitbart.com reports, it would be noteworthy to find any Democrat in a competitive election running on the platform espoused by the DNC, Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi.

Opportunistic Dem candidates are marching in lockstep--- separating themselves from Dummycrat-ism when facing actual voters.

As conservatives have always observed, Dummycrat-ism is not even a coherent party....just a collection of hyphenates.....and expedient alliances of special interest groups....all expecting payback.

This is an old Dummycrat trick---from the conniving shallow mind of Chicago-land kingpins of political crime. Obama suck-up Rahm Emanuel actually dreamed up the con.

As you may recall, the contrived Democrat wave in 2006 was fueled, in large part, by Dummycrat's beating the drum about public weariness with the Iraq War...... and Dummycrats piling on GWB.

Naturally, the complicit drive-by media failed to report that this was a con game devised by the aggressive then-Cong Rahm Emanuel to recruit moderate and conservative Democrats to run for office.

This strategy worked so well that before the GOP landslide in 2010, 54 members of the House Democrat caucus were conservative "blue dog democrats." With only 14 "blue dogs" now serving in Congress, this mythical creature has all but disappeared from the political landscape.

With contemporary support for golf-addicted Obama, and his policies, nearing record lows, Democrats in Congress are again trying to pull off this trick.

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WRAP-UP: Stupid Dummycrats can run wearing Reagan masks, for all that matters----the prog/nitwit in the WH keeps reminding voters about the Dummycrat-fashioned disaster that has befallen our beloved country.

11 posted on 09/16/2014 10:50:53 AM PDT by Liz
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To: cotton1706

In Kansas, Greg Orman is pretending to be an Independent in his run for the U.S. Senate. He isn’t, he’s a Democrat, will behave like one when in the Senate and will likely declare himself a Democrat after the election. He’s winning.


12 posted on 09/16/2014 10:51:40 AM PDT by centurion316
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To: A CA Guy

“They also spend millions slandering Republicans and if that isn’t enough they fund third party Libertarians or other candidates to shave votes from the Republican.

Think Ross Perot. That’s been big lately.”

Very true, and makes one wonder if their trolls on Free Republic get paid for every reply/post, that trashes the Republicans while pretending to be poed former Republicans.


13 posted on 09/16/2014 10:54:01 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Our Sunni White house wasn't surprised at the beheadings. They are surprised at the outcry.)
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To: cotton1706
Alison Grimes is a desperate anti-coal, anti-freedom Dem.

“Recruited by ‘coal makes us sick’ Reid: According to Politico, Grimes came to Washington in May 2013 for a private meeting with Majority Leader Reid.”

http://www.nrsc.org/blog/alison-lundergan-grimes-blowing-smoke-on-kentucky-coal

14 posted on 09/16/2014 10:54:12 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: Grampa Dave

Democrats are to me basically Socialists/Communists at this point.
There are a few good Republicans, but in general the bulk of them are spineless get along Democrat-lites.

We can’t create a third party, so the Republican one needs an enema and needs to be reformed into a far more conservative party that actually has a view for the future with ideas and something to vote for.

At this point all we can says is Republicans, hey we are not Democrats... Where is the great leadership in that kind of view or campaigning?


15 posted on 09/16/2014 10:58:15 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: SoothingDave

And it’s working.. again

Americans are so easily fooled.


16 posted on 09/16/2014 11:07:48 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If it doesn't include border security, it isn't "reform." It's called "amnesty.")
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To: cotton1706

Sooooo you don’t agree with obonehead.

Did you vote for him?


17 posted on 09/16/2014 11:09:23 AM PDT by CoastWatcher
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To: cotton1706
Is just Cankles being clever again. Yawn.


18 posted on 09/16/2014 11:11:25 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: cotton1706

“New Campaign Tactic: Democrats Pretend to Be Republicans”

There is absolutely nothing new about that. Congress is full of them. One them even goes by the name of Boehner.


19 posted on 09/16/2014 11:33:09 AM PDT by Revel
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To: cotton1706

They’re all ‘republican’ until the day after they’re elected... then it’s ‘Katie bar the door’ time to loot the Treasury for the sake of friends and backers...


20 posted on 09/16/2014 12:17:51 PM PDT by GOPJ ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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