GOP chief says press aids Democrats' dirty campaign

Washington Times ^ | 2/13/04 | Ralph Z. Hallow

[kattracks]

Democrats are mounting the "dirtiest" presidential campaign in history, and the press is playing along, Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie charged yesterday.

Mr. Gillespie said Democratic front-runner John Kerry and his party have tried to smear President Bush as having been absent without leave from the Air National Guard, while Mr. Bush and his fellow Republicans have campaigned strictly on public policy issues.

[Theresawithanh]

The dems will stop at nothing to get their candidate in the White House.

From the article - "Several analysts have said Mr. Bush might have won the popular vote in 2000 — and perhaps avoided the Florida recount fight — had it not been for a Democratic operative's success in breaking a story on the Thursday before Election Day that Mr. Bush had been arrested for drunken driving almost 25 years earlier."

I think voter fraud and the networks calling Florida for Gore early had a lot more to do with it.

[lentulusgracchus]

Democrats are mounting the "dirtiest" presidential campaign in history, and the press is playing along, Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie charged yesterday.

What? Journalists vote for Democrats by a margin of 9:1, and now we find they're acting in concert as an exarchate of the DNC? That can't be possible -- I haven't read a story about it in the New York Times!