Republicans have overdosed on their own koolaid. Across the USA, the RNC is running ads that are filled with desperate, despicable lies, race baiting and false accusations. But they are so out of touch and so transparently bogus, I think they're actually hurting the Republican candidates.
DESPERATE!! Pulling out their hair, screaming, stripped to their underwear, running around like a chicken without a head wild, crazy desperate. That's how these spineless, gutless, characterless, no integrity sleazoids are handling the collapse of the facade of values, protection, conservatism and fiscal responsibility they've constructed.
The numbers of Americans who are stupid enough or totally blinded by the right wing propaganda koolaid keep dropping.
It's almost funny to watch these low-life, no class ads-- some deep voiced old man comes on in the background, along with ominous music, and then the no-solution, unable to change Republican leaders churn out the same out lame, extremely tired talking points on Democrats and taxes, Democrats and cut and run, Democrats weak on terror.
But now, people know. It's almost like the Republicans don't realize that when they run these ads, they are showing how out of touch they are. They are showing that they think these dumb ads will reach the dumb people they think are still ignorant about what is really going on. But things have changed. A lot of the people the Republicans duped in past elections have wised up.
When they see these ads, they know. They know that the Republicans are not offering solutions, not offering new ideas-- they are just, on a frighteningly automatic level, saying the same thing they've been saying for years. Only now, it is clear that they are not true and they don't work.
Some of the RNC people get it, that the old lies and slogans aren't working. So they are digging lower. How low can they go? They are digging to find out-- and discovering they can and WILL go even lower than they thought possible. It's the trickle down principle-- scum will trickle down to the lowest depths.
Take for example, the PA 8th district race. New polling shows iraq veteran Patrick Murphy, the Democratic candidate pulling ahead of his opponent, Mike Fitzpatrick. A nasty, but sloppy swiftboat attack on Murphy, orchestrated by Fitzpatrick at a press conference, then sloppily denied by him, failed miserably, and may even have helped Murphy, since it was shortly afterwards that the polls turned in his favor.
Now the RNC is running an outright lying ad saying Murphy was never the prosecutor he claimed to be. The idiots did a freedom of information request through the justice department-- remember, that department run by partisan war criminal Alberto Gonzalez-- and Gonzalez's department reported that they had no record of Murphy being a prosecutor. Funny. The records are there. So Fitzpatrick allows, without complaint, the RNC to run lying sleaze ads.
To their credit, even the right leaning local papers have been getting this stuff right. Not surprisingly, Fitzpatrick, who was picked, without a real primary battle by the local Republican old codger, is now in the first real political fight of his life. He looks depressed, haggard, anxious and run down. And in a few weeks... he'll look run OVER... like a lot of other Republicans nation-wide, who failed their constituents and the nation.
The RNC,their talking head surrogates and their local attack ads have another pattern. They mislead with statistics. They start off, "On average" and then they suggest that they average family will face tax increases, on average of $2000 plus if the Dems roll back the tax breaks the Republicans put into place.
The real truth is that most people WILL NOT be affected by tax rollbacks. The rollbacks will cost millionaires hundreds of thousands of dollars and billionaires will be millions more in taxes, but people making under $200,000 a year will not pay any increases.
So, while it is statistically true, it's really another Republican lie, among many.
The RNC's ultra sleazy, out of touch, mindless repetition ad onslaught is just another example of why the Republicans DESERVE to be fired from their jobs by the people.
Then there's the sleazy attack ad against Harold Ford, in Tennessee. It shows a slut claiming she met Ford at a playboy club, and that Ford took money from pornographers.
Then there's the Right's expert at finding the lowest class sleaziest slime, Rush Limbaugh-- who helps Jim Talent fight Michael J. Fox's ad supporting stem cell research... NOT!!
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The republicans are looking thunderstricken aren't they. They thought they could manipulate half the country into voting them back into power by playing the Civil War-era North vs. South card.
Now, dems and traditional republicans are begrudgingly setting aside the old worst-of-buddies fued, turning as one man toward the gang-bangers on Capitol Hill, who call themselves republicans, and getting ready to give them one hell of an ass-kicking.
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Dean Powers (108 articles, 8 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 58 comments)
on Thursday, October 26, 2006 at 8:29:52 PM
Lemme givya a good example of precisely what Rob means. And a pleasant way to help these boys out! Imagine if we all did it en masse--it's fun and takes about two minutes. See my diary for today, Friday the 27th.
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Daniel Geery (26 articles, 58 quicklinks, 121 diaries, 681 comments)
on Friday, October 27, 2006 at 8:28:55 AM
The Republicans really seemed like they had their finger on the pulse of America for a while. Hard to understand how, typified by Rove -- who, at this point, seems to be cruising on his reputation -- they lost their touch.
Yes, great idea, Daniel.
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Russ Wellen (58 articles, 1029 quicklinks, 66 diaries, 335 comments)
on Friday, October 27, 2006 at 12:02:46 PM
Hiya Russ, it wouldn't take much smarts to know the pulse of Americans once they have been attacked in a shocking way, like 9/11.
I think they believed they could cruise along on that bit of horror for quite a long time, if those orange alerts kept coming and congress kept writing blank checks, under duress, no doubt, for endless war. Calling dissenters treasonous always helps as well, during a time of war, after we have been attacked on our homeland. Osama-in-the-box comes in handy as well, except when it starts reminding people that the guy who was behind this, although it does not say so on the FBIs most wanted poster, is freer than we are and has far more privacy.
God, I am too old for another revolution. It isn't exactly what I had planned for my golden years. I hope we can settle this at the ballot box.
If not, I'll be seeing you, in the streets, Fernando. We will really have no choice. The illusion of Democracy is just a grotesque lie; one we cannot live with.
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wintefire6 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 88 comments)
on Friday, October 27, 2006 at 3:18:39 PM
Karl Rove goes on NPR, hated by rethugs far and wide, and announces that he has THE math. Does he really? Does Karl's math have anything to do with midnight vote filps in any race closer than 7% points. (I think it used to be 5% points, but that's when everyone was still sitting around in the same wet pants they had on the day of 9/11.)
Or, is his visit to the much-detested NPR simply a way of dis-heartening left of center voters, or moderates?
Hot coals will not keep this independent away from the polls Nov. 7.
Huge turn-outs are essential.
Who knows what they are desperate enough to do? Our job is not to wonder, but keep our heads down, like a bull getting ready to charge, and vote, no matter what. Take the day off, call in sick, have a flat tire or several grandmothers die at once, anything, but do not leave the polls without voting. Even if there is a "turrist" attack, vote. If there is a nuclear blast somewhere, vote.
If there are long lines, report it. If there are machine breakdowns, report it. If you see anything out of the ordinary, report it.
Something tells me we can expect a trance bomb, next week, of some kind.
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wintefire6 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 88 comments)
on Friday, October 27, 2006 at 1:17:11 PM
Now GOP ads run as front page headlines (WP, NPR, 10/26)
The evidence has become overwhelming: Democrats win when voters think and reach beyond the obvious, private, immediate of greed to anticipate the consequences of their actions for their children and their children's childrens' children. As an example: Jim Hansen of NASA has warned of the dangers of global climate change for decades but George Bush Junior still refuses to sign the Kyoto Protocol and Bush's NASA recently blocked publication and broadcast of Hansen's warnings, even after the devastation in New Orleans. Bush's own Pentagon warned Bush in 2004 that global climate change was more of a "national security threat" than Bush's terror. Bush simply blocked publication and broadcast of the Pentagon warning and labeled a teachers' union "terrorists" (Paige, 2003) when they criticized George Bush Junior.
But logic does not determine the course of history: The Washington Post headlined GOP Paul Nelson's lurid attacks onto Ron Kind, D-Wisconsin and NPR headlined another nasty GOP attack on another Democratic candidate in Colorado (10/26/06), the lame GOP accusations given top headlines in Bush's profit-driven national "media" of a very corporatized information complex of our cash-driven corporatocracy .... Headlines becoming "fact" in many vulnerable minds, headlines of an industry driven by private profiteering as value. True, the Post detailed some important factors later in the article, but most will only read and remember the simplistic headlines and spin of highly paid publicists of secrecy.
The evidence has become overwhelming that Bush's Republican GOP wins when igniting emotional-button firestorms, war and chaos to destroy that logic of scientific literacy, civil logic that we need to hold our democracy and civilization intact.....civil logic smashed by fear and panic of 9/11, 9/11 Bush's "excuse" to cause vulnerable psyches and illegal lies to cause a criminal war of aggression, war Bush's "excuse" to crush dissent. The evidence has become overwhelming that "boxcutters" did not cause 9/11. Instead, Bush's White House Iraq Group needed 9/11 as an "excuse" to cause war for profit to pay back the war profiteers (Carlyle), oil barons (Enron, Bush and Bin Laden families) and no-bid contractors (Halliburton, Tamiflu) that put Bush into our White House in 2000 and 2004 illegitimately, war an "excuse" to crush dissent, war as outlined in Bush's "blueprint" for this Bush White House, his 2000 Project for a New American Century report that claimed on pages 50-51 of the 2000 PNAC (an entire year before 9/11) that our US needed a "new Pearl Harbor" to cause a "military transformation" ....a historic escalation of military spending that our US Congress would not have approved without 9/11...."unending war" for global military "supremacy" for this Bush White House.....to use negative military force against any nation (or group or dissent) that "challenges" that "supremacy" (PNAC, 2000), that 2000 PNAC published openly an entire year before 9/11 evidence of motive to cause 9/11... to cause "unending war" for private profit, oil, power for Bush's GOP and global military "suprmeacy" for this Bush White House at all costs.....costs impossible to count in Reaganomic terms.
George Bush Senior classified "Reaganomics" as "voodoonomics" in his debates with Reagan decades ago. And Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower warned US about the dangers of a "military-industrial complex" after the last Holocaust, warnings that this George Bush Junior refuses to listen to.
Benjamin Franklin warned us of the importance of credible public education (and media) in a democracy, and scientific literacy and logic are not so easy, cheap or quick as simple headlines in corporate news headlines of, by, for private profit...costs thrown onto the many at public taxpayer expense but left of Bush's Enron's "balance sheets"......
Many Americans rush from task to task worried about empty bank accounts to forget about civic responsibilities and turn to very simple headlines to determine their vote without seeking the messy details or facts as reliable facts become harder to find in a GOP nation when Bush's GOP has crushed Balance of Power in DC and in science (UCS, 2004).
Yesterday, a study found that Vermont was the smartest in the nation and blue by no accident. The simple will grasp for simple but erroneous absolutes to avoid the effort necessary to discover and differntiate finer details that can change history, to produce a safer path for our nation.
A simple comma can change the course of history and details count. Unfortunately scientists that work to steer our nation toward a safer course become silenced: The 2002 Downing Street Memos, evidence from the highest levels of British intelligence verified that this Bush White House was "fixing the facts and the intelligence to fit the policy" (DSM, 2002; London Times, 2005). Fox's Rupert Murdoch ironically published the 2002 DSM as headlines in the conservative London Times on May 1, 2005 and through May, but Bush blocked circulation of that story in the US. But when Rupert Murdoch ironically published the information online, then bombs hit the London mass transit system in June, a mass transit system a fuel efficient threat to oil barons. Bush then used the London bombings as an "excuse" to push his Patriot Act II through the US Congress in July, 2005. But where are the investigations?
Bush refused to join the International Criminal Court with good reason. Bush killed Habeas Corpus this month, too. Bob Barr, one of the most conservative voices in our US House joined Democratic Vice President Al Gore to warn US of our "Constitutional Crisis" and Reagan-appointed Justice O'Connor warned US that we are dangerously close to a "dictatorship." Where are the paper trails to check for vote manipulation, most of the votes in America (87%) registered on electronic voting machines, most electronic voting machines owned by the GOP with ballots that instruct voters to use only pencils/pens supplied (by the voting machine company) with none supplied when a #2 pencil will do.
Can we hold our nation's constitutional democracy intact or not? Where are the Congressional investigations of evidence of impeachable crimes?
The evidence has become overwhelming that this Bush White House lied illegally to our US Congress about 9/11, WMD and Hussein's nuclear capacity to cause a criminal war of aggression against a nation that had not threatened the US.....impeachable.
If Bush lied illegally, skillfully, systematically to deceive our US Congress to cause a criminal invasion of Iraq, then why isn't Congress investigating his threats to Iran and North Korea? Polls indicate that 80% of Americans would favor impeachment if Bush lied to cause a criminal war of aggression. He did, 9/11 his "excuse".....So where's the investigation and motion to impeach in the US House of Representatives? If he lied illegally to cause a criminal war of aggression against Iraq to cause more than 700,000 Iraqi deaths (10/06), then how can we then trust Bush's claims that Iran "has WMD" ? We need to investigate those criminal lies before we invade Iran ....as Bush prepares to drop an atomic missile onto Iran to cause an Armageddon that Bush's Falwell needs to boost Bush's sagging poll numbers before the 2006 Congressional elections. A well-guarded GOP memo circulated through Congress in November 2005 that Bush needed another "terrorist attack" to boost his poll numbers because if the GOP lost in 2006, then Democrats would investigate the crimes of war and then Republicans would probably also lose in 2008 (CHB, 2005).
But where are the real investigations? Is democracy dead? Does private profit justify all? No.
But Jim Leach, R-Iowa and powerful chair of the US House Banking Committee for decades admitted that "(his) Republican party...privatizes, deregulates, cuts taxes....for private wealth" (Leach Town Hall meeting, 2002) ....private profiteering to pay back the war profiteers (Carlyle Group), oil barons (Enron, Bush and Bin Laden families) and no-bid contractors (Cheney, Halliburton, Rumsfeld, Tamiflu)...that put George Bush Junior into our White House in 2000 and 2004 illegitimately (Palast, Kennedy)...in 2006 and 2008 with no paper trail.....deregulation of our US Constitution, international laws and treaties and moral laws of reciprocity that led to lack of accountability and horrors of Abu Grhaib, a global gulag, torture, war crimes and a war of terror unpunished.
Leach then claimed that he was not trying to "privatize" Social Security or Medicare after voting to "privatize" both....yet wanting to appear as a "moderate" for votes.
But tyrants also throw deadly costs onto the many unsuspecting at their expense.
Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt warned US that "the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism- ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power."
Private profit does not justify all.
Our democracy is not for sale.
Then investigate, indict, impeach, damn it....now, before it's too late.
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HollyBerkowitz (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 9 comments)
on Friday, October 27, 2006 at 2:21:41 PM
I wish Tennessee voters were as appalled at the RNC sleaze as are those in the rest of the country. However, the racist and dishonest ads the RNC has been running in Tennessee have actually given their candidate, Bob Corker, a little boost in the polls. I like to consider myself an optimist, but I fear too many voters in my state are still holding onto the ignorance of racism, and are more consumed with fundamental religious isssues than with the real issues facing our country today.
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Lauria Hale (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 38 comments)
on Friday, October 27, 2006 at 3:02:07 PM
Carl Rove and his fellow republicans thought they had the American people figured out when they held an emergency session of congress to keep Terri Schiavo on life support.Terri had been brain dead for years and her husband hade made the difficult choice to pull the plug.Republicans saw it as an opportunity to show the world what deeply caring and compassionate people they were and that the democrats were uncaring becouse many were pro choice. The public didnt fall for this false dislay of love and news got out that even some Republicans had to decided to pull the plug on family members themselves.
This was a turning point for the Republican party many people discoverd what phonies they were.Now everyone knows what a bunch of phonies they are.
There is one thing that Republicans sincerely believe in and work extremely hard at and that is help large corporations improve their bottom line. For this noble cause they will do what ever it takes regardless of the consequences.
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Gary Denson (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 208 comments)
on Friday, October 27, 2006 at 4:42:49 PM
