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Is the bloom off the Turd?

By ADAM REILLY  |  June 14, 2006

Those who advocate cut-and-run, those who say, ‘Set an artificial timetable,’ those who say, ‘Get out now,’ have to be willing to explain to the American people why fifty million people living in freedom in Afghanistan and Iraq don’t deserve to live in freedom . . . [They] need to explain to our men and women in uniform why their hard work and their courage and their sacrifice doesn’t matter. And they need to explain to the families of the fallen why the loss of their loved ones could now have been depicted as being in vain. [Grave silence]

If you recognize that Saddam Hussein wasn’t behind 9/11, or that the Taliban is resurgent in Afghanistan, or that fighting terrorists in Iraq doesn’t mean we won’t have to fight them here, this spiel probably won’t change the way you vote. But it’s more cohesive — and more enticing — than anything the other side has been able to offer so far. The Democrats could still make some major congressional gains come November. But their chances would look a lot better if Rove weren’t still in the picture.

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Is the bloom off the Turd?
Adam, Thanks for the window into the NH GOP dinner and Rove's tactics. Rove used Kerry's early statements prior to the Iraq invasion against Kerry in the lead up to the 2004 election. So will Rove get away with the same tactic in convincing Americans to vote Republican in 2006? This tactic may have worked then, but in 2006, Bush's Iraq invasion is generally recognized by 60% of Americans as a mistake, putting us in worse position than before. Also a majority of Americans believe the Bush administration lied to push America into invading Iraq. Bush lied to Congress and the United Nations as well as to the American public. Kerry's early statement just shows that he was deceived along with the rest of America. Turdblossom will have to come up with some new election fraud tactics and I'm sure he will. The Democratic party leadership should be game planning effective counters for Rove's election fraud tactics. Frankly, I'm more worried about voter suppression and outright theft of the 2006 Congressional elections, as occured in 2000, 2002 and 2004. Republican election fraud tactics used previously will no doubt be used again in 2006. Can the Dems defend their candidates against election fraud? The Dems should maintain a pack of aggressive election lawyers and adequate funding, to file legal action at the first knowledge of slander, libel, phone jamming, purging of eligible voters and other forms of election fraud. These crimes should be considered in a seperate category, that of Crimes Against Democracy. Anyone convicted of a Crime Against Democracy should be banned for life from participation in any capacity (public office, lobbying, voting, etc.)in American Democracy. Any politician involved in a crime against democracy should forfeit their office. The convicted New Hampshire phone jammer is now out of prison conducting workshops on how to screw with our democracy. John Sununu owes his Senate office to this criminal. Sununu should step down.
By justintime on 06/16/2006 at 1:46:25

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He be jamming?
Karl Rove’s out of the woods as far as Plamegate is concerned. But what about the New Hampshire phone-jamming scandal, which involved obstruction of Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts in 2002 and had already led to the conviction of three GOP operatives? “The idea that you would have a phone-jamming operation without Rove’s knowledge or possibly his active involvement is virtually impossible,” says Wayne Slater, co-author of Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential. “But what’s also known is, it would be very difficult to prove that — and Karl’s whole record is really to hide that kind of involvement.” On Monday, in Manchester, Rove declined comment on the phone-jamming case.
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