Really? Desperate Republicans have reached new lows in this election.
Pathetic. Republicans needs to win over the centrists in the election and not the far right. Actions such as these will only push more centrists to Obama.
You can go to the Sacramento Republican website and see some of the other tactics they use, including using the photoshopped Obama image of him holding a phone upsidedown. Again, pathetic.
On the Rush Limbaugh show, Sarah Palin discussed the ACORN voter registration issue by saying that there is “more to the story” than the media is letting on. She also said:
“Obama has a responsibility to rein in ACORN,”
Of to claim that Obama is responsible for another organization is a complete logical fallacy. But that is typical of Republicans. And the claim that there is “more to the story” is another Typical Republican Tactic. She doesn’t actually KNOW that there is more to the story, or else she would have said what is left to be reported. She just blames the “liberal media” for not reporting the supposed additional part of the story that she doesn’t even know, and probably doesn’t even exist.
The Obama campaign responded by saying that the McCain/Palin campaign is using a:
a starkly political maneuver to deflect attention from the reality of the suppression strategies pursued by national, state and Republican Party committees.
And apparently, this is all much ado about nothing. The ACORN spokesperson was on Greta last night and discussed the thousands of problematic voter registration forms:
We registered nationwide 1.3 million folks over an 18 month period, employing some 13,000 workers during that process. And during that time on a weekly basis, a by-weekly basis, we identified and tagged potential problem voter registration forms. At that time, we notified local boards of elections of those problematic forms.
What we’re hearing about today, Greta, is the accumulation of those forms over an 18-month period that some folks are wrapping in an umbrella of fraud. And that’s just not the case.
These are forms that we identified, we brought to the local board’s attention, and we know that they might be problems and ask for the local boards to identify them.
So they did what they were supposed to do by submitting the information to the election boards, yet the Republicans are attacking them for it WHILE not talking about the voter suppression that takes place within their own party. Again, typical Republican tactics.
I have a subscription to the Townhall email updates. I got them when I responded to some Bobby Jindal post they had.
Well, the townhall email I got in my inbox today was just bizarre. They want to defeat Obama with “shock and awe” (it doesn’t seem to be working as of yet, considering MSNBC shows Obama with 260+ electoral votes with many swing states in the balance).
Most of the scare tactics they use are TRT, (Typical Republican Tactics). This one is the “Obama is supported by scary person X so therefore he MUST be bad”. You know, the same kind of argument that the religious right uses against evolution (Hitler supported evolution so it must be wrong).
But one of these claims are just bizarre. In asking you to donate $5000 to their PAC, they bring up Obama’s fiscal policies and how much money you might lose.
Stop and think how much Obama may cost you and your family in new taxes over the next four years alone: $50,000, $75,000, $100,000 or even more.
Who in the hell are they targeting with this email? They really expect people to lose $100,000 in the next 4 years under Obama? I wonder how much you would have to actually make to lose $25,000 a year under Obama’s tax plans.
I calculated my taxes under both candidates and my taxes are less under Obama than they are under McCain. So I guess they are not targeting me with this email. And I know I cannot afford to donate $5,000 to any candidate. But it has become clear that the Republican party is desperate. They will go to any lengths to win. Country first? Ha! Party first to them, Country is only a priority to them when convenient. At the moment, it is victory firs, whatever the cost. (And it seems the first thing to go was integrity).
Ah the desperate GOP is at it again. They cannot win on the issues so they have to win by using smear tactics.
The GOP is going to file a campaign finance complaint against Obama for exceeding federal limits and receiving donations from foreigners even though they have no proof he has accepted funds from foreigners.
Sarah Palin says that Obama is “palling around” with terrorists but never said the name of the terrorist (even though she was referring to Ayers). Now, why not say the Ayers name? Well obviously because if you leave the name out the people might think that you are talking about Islamic terrorists. And, of course, there is the small tidbit that Obama and Ayers are not “palling around”. But Palin won’t let the facts get in the way of her attacks against Obama.
How many more false statements will the McCain/Palin campaign (and the GOP) have to make before people view them as the little boy who cried wolf?
The Republicans already have their ad focusing on the times in the debate where Obama agreed with McCain. Did they forget that this is the very same debate where John McCain attacked Obama for being too liberal to find a common ground with people on the other side of the aisle? You cannot have it both ways Republicans. You cannot logically attack Obama for being too liberal to find a common ground AND THEN attack Obama for finding a common ground with your candidate in the debate and expect to be taken seriously. This is just one of the typical Republican tactics used in the debate last night. (Of course, the Republican selective memory seems to have forgotten that for a majority of the debate, Obama clearly explained how wrong John McCain has been, especially on issues like Iraq).
Another tactic that I discussed last night was the attack McCain used on Obama’s support of the legislation that gave oil companies a tax break. In that legislation, Barack Obama fought the portions of the legislation that would provide those breaks. However, that portion of the legislation was included. So while Obama did not agree with some of the legislation, he agreed with the rest of it enough to vote for the bill as a whole. McCain dishonestly attacks Obama for supporting the legislation that contained that provision, even though Obama fought against that provision. This is Karl Rove politics people. Do we really want more of this?
As Obama said previously… ENOUGH! It is time for us to stand up against McCain and these sleezy, slimy, and dishonest tactics.
