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Republicans not fit to lead
John Kerry used a self inflicted wound as a free ticket out of Vietnam. Kerry backer George Soros earns his billions from an international street drug cartel.
These are not just the rantings of fringe wingers. There are the lies that the Republican Party leadership is counting on to scare undecided voters into reelecting George Bush.
We all know about the Swift Boat Veterans for Bush, whose only legitimate gotcha is Kerry's ill-perceived comment 16 years ago that he spent Christmas Eve in Cambodia. But now comes House Majority Leader Dennis Hastert, the second in line to succeed the President should one of George Soros' bagmen fly a coke-laden cargo plane into the White House. Speaking on Fox News Sunday, Hastert hinted that George Soros' money comes from selling illegal drugs. As reported by the New York Daily News:"(Hastert) insinuated that billionaire financier George Soros, who's funding an independent media campaign to dislodge President Bush, is getting his big bucks from shady sources. "You know, I don't know where George Soros gets his money. I don't know where - if it comes overseas or from drug groups or where it comes from," Hastert mused. An astonished Chris Wallace asked: "Excuse me?" The speaker went on: "Well, that's what he's been for a number years - George Soros has been for legalizing drugs in this country. So, I mean, he's got a lot of ancillary interests out there." Wallace: "You think he may be getting money from the drug cartel?" Hastert: "I'm saying I don't know where groups - could be people who support this type of thing. I'm saying we don't know."
The Republicans' behavior in this campaign reminds me of an incident from my youth. There was this kid I'll call Howard who thought he was really tough. One day we were hanging out at the beach, and Howard tried to drag my friend Roger into the water. But Roger threw Howard on the ground, in a second had Howard tied up real good, and was dragging him into the water.
Then Howard bit Roger. On the thigh. Roger let go, and Howard walked away. The rest of us guys looked at Howard like he was the biggest wuss of all, but Howard didn't care. In his mind, he won.
Die hard Republicans are thigh biters. They defend their tactics, saying Kerry and MoveOn and the rest brought this on the Democrats. There is a little bit of truth to that charge. It's a political campaign, and there's a tradition of political mudslinging that goes back 200 years or more in this country. But the Republican smear campaign goes beyond politics, and crosses the line into character assassination, drawing on the same bag of tricks as Joe McCarthy used 50 years ago to ruin the lives of artists and politicians who wouldn't bend to the Senator's will.
It's one more reason I could never be a Republican.
1.9.04 22:31
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(4.9.04 14:21) I am so with you. Republicans ruin the possibility that I will ever return to the United States to live. What I need is a voting-ballot cloner. |