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Someone sent me the link and it seemed to be relevant for a Texas politics thread. DU content is unwelcome at FR, but there is DUFunnies so maybe this thread will survive. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6563121

NEW YORK – Imagine going to work each day and hearing people call your mother a Nazi. Nazi Pelosi. Alexandra Pelosi, the filmmaker daughter of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, heard it frequently last fall in speeches meant to fire up the crowds at McCain-Palin campaign rallies. She attended many such events to make a film about the people who attended, those who fought against a Barack Obama presidency. "Right America, Feeling Wronged," debuts Monday at 8 p.m. EST on HBO. The work wasn't easy. Pelosi was spat upon at the Iowa State Fair, leading her to enlist her husband as...

Just for fun and potential political ammo, I have decided to engage in a phone ambush of some Obama supporters. So I need some ideas on what to ask them in taped conversations. Of course I will only do what is legal and I will be abiding by the spirit and letter of the law. I can't help but think the RNC Opposition Research team has missed a heap of stuff out there. Anyways if Joe the Plumber's background is fair game ya would think the candidates' background is also fair game.

Yes he did. On his show tonight, Dan Abrams drew attention to a quote from John McCain in an interview with Sean Hannity that flew under the radar for the past 3 months: HANNITY: -- and then I understand you didn't get any medical help for nine days. You spent two years of this five-and-a-half-year period in solitary confinement. What does that do to a person, to spend that much time in solitary confinement? MCCAIN: I think it makes you a better person. Obviously, it makes you love America. I really didn't love America until I was deprived of her...

<p>Mitt Romney says he "saw" his father "march" with Martin Luther King Jr. Rudolph Giuliani claims he is one of the "five best known Americans" in the world. According to John McCain, the Constitution established the United States as a "Christian nation."</p>

Are the Clinton secret police back on patrol? It looks like they may be making a late campaign comeback. In a week-end column, Robert Novak alleged that “agents” of Hillary Clinton are “spreading the word that she has scandalous information” about Barack Obama, but decided not to use it. (How considerate of her!) Obama has come out swinging, accusing the Clinton campaign of trying to swift-boat him and demanding that Clinton either release the information or admit that there is none. The Clinton camp is shocked that anyone would ever think that it would use such tactics! Clinton campaign Communications...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former Washington lobbyist turned GOP Presidential candidate Fred Thompson is bringing his campaign follies to Texas today in an effort to woo southern voters. Thompson was supposed to add enthusiasm to the GOP race, filling the void of a true conservative, but his performance has been disappointing as he continues to make major gaffes across the country. The latest example took place Monday when Thompson announced that he would attend a debate in New Hampshire that had been canceled months ago. [Boston Globe, 9/18/07] And this past weekend in Florida, Thompson was caught completely off...

He may have entered the race at a late date compared to his rivals, but it seems certain former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., will have little trouble locally finding support in his race for the White House. Several national polls showed the Law & Order actor in first or second place in the competition for the Republican presidential nomination, even before he entered the race. With Sevier County's strong ties to the Republican Party and Thompson's ties to Tennessee, folks have been quick to jump on the Thompson bandwagon. "I think Fred Thompson is our best chance to get a...

On a hot Saturday in June 2002, Fred D. Thompson married his second wife, Jeri Kehn, in an unventilated Congregational church in her home town of Naperville, Ill. Kehn, in a Valentino gown, was a 35-year-old media consultant for a Washington law firm; Thompson, a 59-year-old U.S. senator from Tennessee. "I think he will be a calming influence, and she will be good for him," Kehn's mother, Vicki Keller, said at the time. It was a triumphal return for Kehn, who had left Naperville for college and spent much of her 20s biding her time in Nashville without a clear...

Fred Thompson has had a relatively easy ride as he has flirted with a bid for the Republican presidential nomination. His strategists have found traction promoting him as the heir to Ronald Reagan -- and a conservative alternative to the top tier of the GOP field. But the ride is starting to get a bit bumpy. Opponents and their researchers have begun working -- mostly behind the scenes -- to highlight perceived soft spots in his conservative bona fides. And Thompson will have to neutralize questions on the campaign trail and in the media about his centrist votes in the...

Download the Democrat opposition research paper on GOP candidates to see what they are up to. 40 pages worth. I put this in Breaking News cause I'm not sure how long it will last. http://a9.g.akamai.net/7/9/8082/v001/democratic1.download.akamai.com/8082/images/content/republican_cands/pdfs/CAPAK_FINAL.pdf

Apparently one of the appropriations bills the Senate is about to vote on contained a provision that allowed congressional staffers access to individuals and corporations tax returns to which they could do whatever they wish with (e.g., share with the press, post on the internet). And it appears not one Senator was aware of this. LOL! It's just fun watching McCain, ect. go balistic over this.

Publisher's description: In this poignant depiction of the Presidential hopeful, Risvold shows a side of John Kerry rarely shown by the media. Exposing an area of Kerry's policies that have remained hidden throughout his campaign, Risvold takes the truth head on. Exposing Kerry's economic plans, national security policies, foreign policy tactics, health care ideas and education vison for what they really are. This is a must read for anyone unsure how to vote or dedicated to defeating John Kerry. This witty and useful guide to the candidacy of John Kerry is a must read for Democrats and Republicans alike.

Apparently tired of being challenged on supporter Michael Moore's assertion that President Bush was a "deserter," Wesley Clark's campaign is considering hiring a private investigator to look into Bush's activities in Texas and Alabama during his National Guard service way back when. At least one other campaign is said to be considering sending opposition researchers down south to look into Bush's record. In the past, campaign staffers for both Clinton and Gore had tried to make hay of the rumors that Bush had somehow taken advantage of his family name during that period. Despite of months of effort, they failed...

The moment John Kerry began to seem like the candidate to watch in the Iowa caucuses, the campaigns of his Democratic rivals Howard Dean and Richard A. Gephardt swiftly used a handful of Mr. Kerry's decade-old Senate votes and statements against ethanol and agricultural subsidies to attack him as not supportive of Iowa's essential industry. Now that his opponents are moving even more aggressively to slow Mr. Kerry's rise, his 19-year voting record as the junior senator from Massachusetts could loom as his greatest political vulnerability, among Democrats and Republicans alike. The sheer length of Mr. Kerry's service means that...

To be a successful "oppo guy"—an opposition researcher for a presidential candidate—you need to know how to play defense as well as offense. In the Democrats' increasingly vicious race, Chris Lehane, Wesley Clark's oppo guy, is state of the art, a Harvard Law School alum with a sharp mind and tongue. He knows how to play it both ways. He's spent months in attack mode, serving as a one-man tip sheet for reporters examining the shortcomings of Howard Dean, especially the former Vermont governor's refusal to release all of his official records. But last week Lehane hunkered down. Preparing for...

Acting at the behest of Bill and Hillary Clinton, a senior campaign aide to Gen. Wesley Clark has carried out the "political assassination" of Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean, former top Clinton advisor Dick Morris contended late Friday. "I believe we have witnessed a political assassination of Howard Dean by the Clintons," Morris told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" - hours after polls showed that Dean's once formidable lead in Iowa had evaporated. Morris named Clark communications director Chris Lehane, a former Gore campaign spokesman who cut his teeth as a key operative in the Clinton White House's attack...

MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 12 — The documents — those nasty tidbits that campaigns euphemistically call "opposition research" — are flying in the scrappy final days of the Democratic contests here and in Iowa. At the center of the maelstrom, Democrats say, is a 36-year-old aide to Gen. Wesley K. Clark, a frenetic, colorful and, some contend, devious communications strategist named Chris Lehane. Every campaign has people who work behind the scenes, feeding unflattering facts about opponents to the news media. But Mr. Lehane — a veteran of Al Gore's 2000 campaign and the Clinton White House, where his specialty was...

The "political black arts" -- those nasty tidbits that campaigns euphemistically call "opposition research" -- is at the center of an intense debate among Democrats this year, the NEW YORK TIMES is planning to report in Page Ones on Friday, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE. How much of the research should be used? And are inter-party candidates inflicting too much damage on each other, leaving an eventual nominee wounded and weakened in a fall showdown with President Bush? At the center of the maelstrom, Democrats say, is a 36-year-old aide to Gen. Wesley Clark, "a frenetic, colorful and, some contend, devious"...

**Exclusive** With the clock ticking it's a wild scramble to find dirt on Dean as primaries near. A woman named "Robin" from John Kerry's New Hampshire campaign has been rummaging through files at Vermont's Secretary of State’s Office in recent days, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT. The first thing "Robin" asked for this morning was Dean's state campaign finance records, including those from this year, a well-placed source tells the DRUDGE REPORT. Robin was told how the information from this year was federal. She then abruptly asked where she could get it. One archive employee -- who called Robin overly...

<p>I know we're not supposed to post DU stuff, but I think this thread is VERY telling and exposes their true agenda.</p> <p>"it's staged!"</p> <p>"this is about to be a really ugly day!!"</p> <p>And lots of anger, sadness, fear and loathing.</p> <p>Their chracter is further exposed: the America haters don't give half a **** about the Iraqis, they're just about hateing America.</p>