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| Dems Dig Deep for Trunk Dirt |
| 2006-10-13 |
| Registration required, so it's all here. In the wake of the Mark Foley page scandal, Democrats are targeting the personal lives of Republicans in numerous key House races as part of a campaign to capitalize on voter disgust with the messy personal lives and alleged character defects among elected officials. Although Democrats' internal polling shows that the Foley scandal is resonating deeply only in half a dozen races, party operatives are calculating that GOP candidates are now unusually vulnerable to personal attacks, several candidates and strategists said. In New Jersey, Democratic candidate Linda Stender this week sent voters a two-page brochure accusing Rep. Mike Ferguson (R) of improperly preying on young women in a fashionable D.C. nightclub. Stender, who is shown by polls to be within striking distance of Ferguson, said the Foley affair "opened the door to talk about the ethical challenge of my opponent." Ferguson has denied the allegations, and a spokeswoman last night called the attacks "pathetic and desperate." Democratic candidate Chris Carney is running an ad accusing Rep. Don Sherwood (R-Pa.) of "repeatedly choking" and "attempting to strangle" a young mistress. Foley and Sherwood share "the arrogance of power," said Carney. "They're willing to cover up these types of things to retain power." and you're willing to stoop way lower, and in public, to attain such power. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #9 Thank you, Bobby and Frank G. It's important to always keep one's backup memory stored separately, someplace safe. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-10-13 23:48 |
| #8 DRUDGEREPORT.com > LAS VEGAS SUN > BILL CLINTON = USA in lot of trouble due to GOP. DEMOCRATS ARE NOW THE LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE PARTY OF AMERICA. Basic Message - iff Americans = Amerikans want Universal/National Governmentism, Super-Welfarism + SOcialism, + International-Geopol ISOLATIONISM-RETREATISM, AND WHILE PRETENDING YOU'RE NOT FOR THESE THINGYS, VOTE FOR THE DEMS. aka PC/PDeniable ISOLATIONIST COMMUNISM-OWG AT HOME, ANTI-SOVEREIGNTY + INTENSIFIED $$$ PAYOUT OVERSEAS. It was ROSWELLIAN SPACE ALIENS THAT INVADED AFGHANISTAN, D *** NG IT, NOT THE COMMIES. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-10-13 22:25 |
| #7 I wish I'd make the headline - Dems Dig Deep for Trunk Trash Alliteration, ya know. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2006-10-13 17:59 |
| #6 damn Bobby - I need to refresh more often |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-10-13 17:33 |
| #5 TW - that'd be Allen - who now leads Webb by 4-7%. Backlash happens. Teddy gonna stand by you on stage, Donks? They're saturating the airwaves with sleaze and innuendo, I think it damages the polity in general, but will taint the Donks further by their shrillness |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-10-13 17:29 |
| #4 Senator George Allen. Krauthammer followed with an editorial about how everybody was a little Jewish. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2006-10-13 17:17 |
| #3 It's already happening, Mike. I'm thinking of that Virginian (?) gentlemen who was asked not long ago by a television reporter why he was concealing that his mother was Jewish -- which was the first he'd heard of it. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-10-13 12:42 |
| #2 I really am not fond of the Republicans - but I can't help but to think that this time around, the Democrats have overshot their wad. I know the polls say they will win control and I know that some of these races are close, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that they won't get control. You can't cover yourself in shit and expect people to embrace you. |
| Posted by: anon 2006-10-13 12:12 |
| #1 So much for all that condemnng "the politics of personal destruction," I guess. Within an election cycle or two, I expect to see attack ads from the Donks attacking opponents for being Christians of observant Jews, so none of this surprises me. Locally, we've got a Trunk running an attack ad slagging his Dem opponent for some moonbat-grade comments she made after 9/11. Makes a fella feel good to see that, it does. |
| Posted by: Mike 2006-10-13 10:42 |