When you think they can't go any lower, they ridicule the handicapped and blame the Dems...
Steve Clemons' Washington Note has the dish... Thanks Joshua for the heads up...
October 15, 2004
DIRTY TRICKS MONTH: REPUBLICANS HAVE NOT LEARNED THEIR FLYER LESSON
WHAT IS IT WITH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN THE SOUTH and disgusting political flyers and mailers?
A nasty flyer has turned up in Tennesse politics which depicts a handicapped athlete running on a track with George Bush's face pasted on.
The text reads:
Voting for Bush is Like Running in the Special Olympics -- Even if You Win, You're Still Retarded.
The Traditional Values Coalition and other right wing operations in the South jumped on this fast alleging that Tennessee Democrat Craig Fitzhugh's office, which shares space with the Kerry/Edwards Campaign, was distributing this flyer...
This is "a crass, below-the-belt political strategy to attack" handicapped children, not to mention "cheap and tawdry"...
Oy, what's next?...
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