The following are excerpts from a posting on a right wing lie machine blog titled "Donkey Cons." The parts in blockquotes are from their slander piece, the part of the entry in quotes is Erin From Flagstaff's diary from Thursday night. The parts in bold are my comments.
The ultimate losers hit Vegas
Hotline's blog has a full report on the goings-on at the "Yearly Kos" convention in Las Vegas, where the architects of Democratic Party futility are planning how to continue their losing ways.
The Kossacks apparently are in full moonbat mode, complete with lovestruck Joe Wilson groupies:
"The highlight so far ... was as Mike Caccioppoli (who is running for the AZ CD1 seat) and I turn a corner in our hunt for snack food and I'm passing someone who reminds me of Joseph Wilson. I catch his eye and with a dumbfounded look I point at him and say, "You're...aren't you?" ...
Oh. My. God. We actually have a conversation with Joseph Wilson. With Joseph Wilson! ...
Oh, was I giddy when we went our separate ways. I wanted to jump up and down and scream in excitement."
Imagine. "Erin from Flagstaff" is talking to a former State Department bureaucrat and it might as well be Elvis.
Understand this: Wilson's a major-league loser. His pretended "expose" of the Niger yellowcake story in 2003 did nothing at all to achieve his political aims (i.e., elect John Kerry) and the so-called Plamegate affair is a non-scandal which, at worst, will result in a couple of plea bargains on perjury charges against administration staffers. It ain't Watergate. It ain't even Iran-Contra. And any money, time and energy that Democrat activists expend in chasing Joe Wilson's phantasms is that much less money, time and energy they'll have for doing anything that might actually help elect Democrats.
The starstruck Kossack, however, can't seem to register this. "Erin in Flagstaff" goes all gushy for Mr. Valerie Plame and please notice who she's hanging out with: Mike Caccioppoli, a poor second choice to challenge Rep. Rick Renzi, Arizona Republican.
Profile of a Loser
In 2004, Caccioppoli -- a New York liberal who moved to Las Vegas to do talk radio -- moved to Flagstaff to work for the campaign of Renzi's Democrat challenger, Paul Babbitt.
Here is one of many lies, as I didn't move to Flagstaff to work on Babbitt's campaign because I didn't move here until February '05. They of course don't care about the facts because they want to put me in the same box with someone who lost by 23 points. Anyway the lies continue:
In September 2005, as the Democrats were rolling out their "culture of corruption" campaign theme for '06, some D.C. liberal group names Renzi on its list of the "13 most corrupt" members of Congress.
A False Hope
Chasing their bets, Democrats somehow got the idea last year that this "most corrupt" listing made Renzi vulnerable, and got their hopes up.
The Democrats (namely Rahm "Hired Truck" Emanuel) had already recruited Jack Jackson Jr., the state director of Indian affairs, to challenge Renzi. Jackson raised over $100,000, but Renzi was sitting on more than $1 million in campaign cash, the "corruption" issue wasn't working for Democrats and Jack is ... an openly gay Navajo Indian. (Not that there's anything wrong with that ....)
In March, Jackson called it quits, and Congressional Quarterly calls this a "safe Republican" district.
Ok, more lies. "Crew" is not a "liberal group" as they also placed two Democrats on that corrupt list. It's just that there are more corrupt Republicans, i.e. Tom boy, Jackie boy and "The Duke" just to name a few.
So here comes Caccioppoli, an out-of-stater who as of March 31 had raised less than $12,000. Here's his agenda:
Immediate withdrawal from Iraq.
Impeach Bush.
National health care.
$8 minimum wage.
Repeal the Patriot Act.
Felony prosecutions for oil company "price gouging."
Caccioppoli probably couldn't get elected on that agenda in his native Brooklyn, N.Y., and he's sure as heck not going to get elected running in Goldwater Country on a Barbra Streisand platform. And this is the kind of loser that "Erin in Flagstaff" thinks it's cool to hang around with.
Where do these people come from? Judging from her ".edu" e-mail address, you immediately know that "Erin in Flagstaff" doesn't work in the for-profit economy. She works in a computer training center at Northern Arizona University. She describes herself as a 48-year-old Kos addict.
They are right on one point here. I haven't raised a lot of money but I don't have the corrupt Republican money making machine behind me like Renzi does. To them my agenda is "wacko liberal" but I think it's just a common sense, forward thinking agenda. Of course it would seem absurd to them to bring our troops home, and raise the minimum wage. Health care to them is out of the question except for the rich. While they can rip me as much as they want they cross the line when it comes to saying horrible, untrue things about Erin from Flagstaff. They actually say there is something wrong with her being an educator. Can you belive this? Well, I guess you can since this is the party of "leave every child behind."
They continue:
She's a DFA activist who supported the Howard Dean campaign, and in mid-October 2004 -- based on a poll that showed Bush leading Kerry 49%-45% in Arizona -- enthusiastically exclaimed:
We're a battleground state again! I'd like to come up with some intelligent commentary about this turn of events, but all I can come up with is, "Whoo hoo!"
Actual 2004 election result in Arizona:
Bush 55%, Kerry 44%
"Whoo hoo," indeed.
So, "Erin in Flagstaff" is a middle-aged woman with a government job, who actually believed that John Kerry might make Arizona a "battleground state," who can find nothing better to do in Las Vega than to hang around with a liberal loser like Caccioppoli and react to Joe Wilson as if she were still a 14-year-old girl in 1972 getting Bobby Sherman's autograph.
She is typical of the kind of people DailyKos attracts -- Erin's post got over 200 comments -- and this is why the Kossack/Moonbat/LoseOn.org alliance is such an albatross around the neck of the Democratic Party. It's sort of like a black hole of loserdom, with a gravitational pull so strong that nothing can escape. It's like holding a caucus in an insane asylum, where reason and logic are rejected by a show of hands as the first order of business.
My advice to Yearly Kos attendees: Stay away from the casinos. Given your genius for losing, if you go anywhere near the video poker machines, you'll be broke within an hour.
Funny, Joe Wilson was certainly a hero to them until he told the truth about Iraq. They not only slander myself and Erin but the entire blogosphere. These people have no problem telling one lie after another, but as I'm doing here in Arizona against Rick Renzi, we need to continue to expose them for the immoral, selfish,and corrupt individuals that they are.
Mike Caccioppoli
MikeCforCongress