Posts under ‘Republican dirty tricks’

We rejected asinine attempts to assign guilt by association when the Republican right tried for months to torpedo Obama’s presidential bid by tying him to Pastor Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers. Now, we reject Reid’s asinine rejection of Burris’ legitimacy to represent Illinois in the Senate.

It may be that General Motors, Chrysler and Ford are lumbering, Jurassic beasts that deserve their looming extinction. But only a free-market fundamentalist, a lunatic or a Senate Republican — perhaps that’s redundant — would conclude that now is the moment to hasten Detroit’s demise.

Conservatives don’t like either solution because the United Auto Workers union wouldn’t get cut off at the knees and billions owed retired autoworkers in the form of pensions would still be the companies’ responsibility. If conservatives get their way, those pension costs will become taxpayers’ responsibility.

Republicans aren’t just innocent victims of an election-year downturn in the business cycle. They’ve been cruising for a bruising for decades.

Only one Republican we know of, to his great credit then, joined in condemning Chambliss’ ad, calling it “worse than disgraceful” and “reprehensible.” That was Sen. John McCain. Does Chambliss, now destined for a Dec. 2 runoff with his Democratic challenger, Jim Martin, regret this 2002 attack ad?

Republicans in recent weeks have promoted the specter of widespread voter fraud, blaming the ACORN voter-registration group and implying a vast left-wing conspiracy.
Now, a well-done report exposes how hollow the charges are, with help from an experienced elections administrator and member of the McCain-Palin Honest and Open Election Committee, Ronald Michaelson.

“Do we have a documented [...]

The key to success, as McCain and his people see it, is demagoging Obama’s association with Professor William Ayers, who 40 years ago was an anti-government radical — despite the fact Ayers was never even charged with a crime. CNN debunked this attempt at character assassination, but the McCain campaign seems convinced the big-lie strategy will do Obama in if they just keep at it.

Think U.S. troops backed by tanks and armed with automatic weapons putting down demonstrations on America’s streets, and U.S. military spy satellites monitoring your communications.

If outright lying and distorting the truth was an industry, the McCain-Palin campaign would be the Microsoft or Toyota of that industry. To demonstrate how completely he’s sold out any shred of integrity and self-respect he ever had to win this election, John McCain shows up in person to endorse lie after lowdown, dirty lie. . .

With a cranky, sold-out septuagenarian and his flaky female sidekick to peddle, the McCain campaign has settled on a strategy of flooding the airwaves with falsehoods. Face it, as McCain’s handlers obviously have, honesty and openness will never win the White House for these Republican lamers.