Joe Wilson, Republican of South Carolina, reached a new low yesterday. He's going with all-out smears and Lee Atwater lies in a desperate attempt to save the most recent red seat in the Deep South threatened by massive Democratic turnout and the Obama tsunami.
Wilson is calling his Democratic opponent, Rob Miller (SC-02) a Pelosi liberal who will take away your guns. Miller is a Marine captain who earned a commendation for valor in Iraq. Voters have come to know Miller as Jon Tester-style Democrat, a regular guy who, in Miller's case, campaigns with a knife on his belt. Folks know that Miller loves to dove hunt. Wilson knows this and knows that a Marine like Miller is a strong supporter of individual ownership of guns. Meanwhile Miller has run a positive campaign centered on issues of crucial importance to all South Carolinians and all Americans--education, health care, and infrastructure. But what does that matter to Joe Wilson, a protege of Lee Atwater, the beta-model for Karl Rove? There's no truth he won't trash to keep himself in Congress.
Wilson is the original Michele Bachmann, who delights in hurling McCarthy-ite smears on television, calling those who challenged Bush's logic for the Iraq War "anti-American." He's also the guy who was Tom Delay's best buddy and loved to be on the receiving end of the Hammer's notoriously corrupt fundraisers. Wilson is the guy who sold out his district in the CAFTA vote when the Bush command center demanded that he switch his vote.
Now Wilson is lying and producing a shameful ad like this one:
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Right out of Atwater's playbook. Smears. Lies. Bearing False Witness.
After a debate earlier this week in which Miller called out Wilson's do-nothing (but vote with Bush) record of zero achievements, Wilson's polling must have showed that Miller is pulling ahead. He made a massive ad buy and, after a campaign season built on a strategy of ignoring his opponent, has now not only gone negative but gone way beyond criticism and wallowed in the most hateful Atwater sleaze-mongering and smear-merchandizing.
Joe Wilson should be ashamed. Joe Wilson should be turned out of office.
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