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Thursday, November 2, 2006

Please help me verify this

In an email just received from Howard Dean, he alleges the following:
Here's how the Republicans are trying to win this election:
  • President Bush himself is trying to scare voters with ridiculous claims, saying that "terrorists win and America loses" if Democrats were to take control of Congress.
  • In Missouri, Michael J. Fox recently appeared in a heartfelt ad for Democratic Senate candidate Claire McCaskill, criticizing the Republican incumbent's opposition to stem cell research. The GOP smear machine immediately attacked Fox and McCaskill, with Rush Limbaugh even suggesting Fox was faking his symptoms of Parkinson's disease in the ad.
  • In Tennessee, the Republican Party ran racist ads aimed at dredging up some of the worst racial prejudices imaginable. The ads attacking Democratic Senate candidate Harold Ford, who is African-American, show a scantily clad white woman beckoning to him. The ad is so bad that some TV stations are refusing to run it, and non-political companies have fired the Republican consultants who made it. The RNC refused to denounce the disgusting ad, despite a public outcry.
  • In California, one Republican campaign took a page from the national GOP playbook, which calls for suppressing minority voters at every opportunity. The campaign sent a false and deliberately misleading mailing to Hispanics in the district that threatened jail time for any immigrant – legal or not – who tried to vote.
In the spirit of rational, evidence-based inquiry, I ask your help. Do you know of any evidence tending to disprove Governor Dean's allegations? Or are the Republicans really this bad?

If you are not a blogger and must comment as "Anonymous," please be so kind as to identify yourself. I will delete comments not so identified.

6 comments:

  1. Hi dad, I have not heard of most of this stuff. ~shudder~

    I am familiar with the incident in CA. The candidate claims "someone" sent the letter without approval. Ironically, the candidate is a Vietnamese immigrant. The county Republican Party has asked the candidate to withdraw from the race. He hasn't. Of course.

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  2. The Republicans are being very
    crappy and Rush Limbaugh is a total
    f'ng moron ! I'm sure lots will agree with me.
    Hi Unc Mo
    Love ya
    Niece Dawn

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  3. Yes, I'd have said the same (about the question's being easy to answer). But I let a few Republicans of my acquaintance know the address of this post, and (should they be brave enough to visit it) I don't think they'll necessarily agree with us. In fact, they're likely to give us a list of things Democrats have done (mentioning Clinton, of course). Change the subject, you now.

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  4. Niece Dawn! How nice to have your comment, and thank you for it. It came in between Southern Writer's comment and my reply to her. Rush Limbaugh, yeah, that's the doughy guy whose name almost always escapes me!

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  5. I was just quoting John Kerry:

    "I’m not going to be lectured by a stuffed-suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium, or doughy Rush Limbaugh, who no doubt today will take a break from belittling Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s disease to start lying about me just as they have lied about Iraq. It disgusts me that these Republican hacks, who have never worn the uniform of our country lie and distort so blatantly and carelessly about those who have.”

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  6. What a pathetic wimp Kerry is, though. Apologizing for his stumbling over that "joke." And my wife says (and I accept almost everything she says, just on principle) that Kerry didn't do any better at Yale than Bush did. Nevertheless, yesterday Thomas L. Friedman (who approved the war in Iraq, and continued for a long time to approve it) endorsed the Democratic Party. And the conservative columnist David Brooks said on TV that the Republicans deserve to lose. Incompetence.

    But if their "competence" at dirty campaigning and switching electronic votes should save their asses...<grimace>.

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