Have you seen the NY Times editorial page today? They ran an editorial about
sleazy campaigning in Connecticut. About time, right? And it started well:
Connecticut has turned out to be the epicenter of national election-year politics. Besides its big Senate race, the state has three Republican members of Congress who are targets of the Democrats. Unfortunately, it has also become the focus for some of this year's nastiest campaign tactics.
I was excited to see Lieberman get smacked around for his "a vote for Ned is a vote for Osama"
crap. Maybe a few shots would be fired Cheney's way. This was going to be good.
So I was a little stunned to see the next line:
For months, thousands of residents have gotten telephone calls with recorded messages filled with half-truths or outright lies regarding the records of the Republican House members
Robo-calls! Thousands of em! Appalling!!
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Mean, nasty, dirty Democrats! How do the fucking editors of New York Times sleep at night knowing that somewhere out there somebody might be getting some mostly true information about a candidate you never heard of? Oh the freaking humanity!! Finally, someone takes a stand. As a member of the
Taliban party I was too busy supporting
Al-Qaeda types to even know this was going on. But now I know that, no matter what the Republicans
pull, the Democrats are worse. If you want to thank the NYTimes editors for this insight, you can do so here editorial@nytimes.com.
Its just astonishing how well years and years of working the refs has paid off for the Republicans. Here we have a police action (with warrants!) involving cooperation from Islamic-fascists that stops a terrorists plot in England (with tiest to Pakistan). Republicans see this and say "this supports our unilateral war in Iraq", and the press just laps it right up. It boggles the mind. It makes you want to eat glass.