Comments on: Typical Republican Tactics 2: Make enough claims and maybe some will stick http://obama.lj4a.com/2008/10/06/typical-republican-tactics-2-make-enough-claims-and-maybe-some-will-stick/ My personal blog about the presidential race. Not endorsed by any candidate or committee. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:29:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Daniel Z. http://obama.lj4a.com/2008/10/06/typical-republican-tactics-2-make-enough-claims-and-maybe-some-will-stick/#comment-705 Daniel Z. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:12:45 +0000 http://obama.lj4a.com/2008/10/06/typical-republican-tactics-2-make-enough-claims-and-maybe-some-will-stick/#comment-705 And the likely reason that they are trying to make the FEC complaint would be so that if a claim sticks and they start an investigation, they could run an ad saying "Barack Obama is under investigation for illegal campaign donations". Of course, it would be EASY for someone to discredit another candidate by making "illegal campaign donations" and not have them stick to that person. Basically, person A making a campaign donation to person B in the name of fake person C with no way to track it back to A. And the likely reason that they are trying to make the FEC complaint would be so that if a claim sticks and they start an investigation, they could run an ad saying “Barack Obama is under investigation for illegal campaign donations”.

Of course, it would be EASY for someone to discredit another candidate by making “illegal campaign donations” and not have them stick to that person. Basically, person A making a campaign donation to person B in the name of fake person C with no way to track it back to A.

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