Gillespie: Dems Plot Dirtiest Campaign in Modern Presidential Politics [Predicts Abortion Smear]

NewsMax ^ | Feb. 13, 2004 | Chuck Noe

[Hon]

Gillespie: Democrats Plot 'Dirtiest Campaign in Modern Presidential Politics'

Chuck Noe, NewsMax.com
Friday, Feb. 13, 2004

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Republican chairman Ed Gillespie warns that Democrats are plotting "the dirtiest campaign in modern presidential politics."

"This is because they don't want a debate on the issues, and they don't want to run on Senator Kerry's record," he told Nevada Republicans on Thursday night. "I guess I can't blame them for that."

Democrat activists have even stooped so low as to plant false accusations that the president once paid for a former girlfriend's abortion, he noted.

Expect more of the same. "We now know that sometime this fall Kerry campaign operatives intend to go into pro-life chat rooms on the Internet to spread a scurrilous story that President Bush drove a former girlfriend to an abortion clinic, and paid for her abortion, according to the New York Daily News," Gillespie, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said in Reno at a Lincoln Day Dinner.

Pop star Moby, a supporter of Kerry, "expressed hope of dampening Republican turnout in November by spreading anti-Bush gossip on the Internet," the Washington Times reported today.

Suggestions for Smears

Moby told the Daily News: "For example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you're an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion."

Even the singer himself "didn't claim that he believed the abortion story," the New York newspaper reported.

Kerry, stung by the controversy about NewsMax's exposés of his radical past – the Times has said our reports of his alliance with "Hanoi" Jane Fonda sparked nationwide outrage among Vietnam veterans – backed away Thursday and today from his attacks on the president's military service.

The Democrats' front-runner this morning told radio broadcaster Don Imus he would not discuss Bush's service in the National Guard. "It's not my record to comment on. I'm not going to pay any attention to it," he insisted.

However, as long as two years ago in an interview with the Boston Globe, Kerry started making unproven allegations of Bush being "AWOL," ABC News' "The Note" column revealed Thursday.

Double Standard

As the Wall Street Journal pointed out this week, Kerry took to the Senate floor more than a decade ago to defend Bill Clinton, who protested against America while he dodged the Vietnam War in England, from attacks by rival candidate Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska and insisted that military service should be no consideration in running for office.

Despite the dirty tricks launched by himself and Democrat chairman Terry McAuliffe, a nonveteran, Kerry tried to blame the GOP.

"We've seen evidence. We know exactly where these guys are going to go, and I'm ready for it," Kerry told Imus.

"I've been at this for a while, Don, and I've been through some tough races. I've been pretty well, you know, vetted and examined from one side to the other. And I think that they're in for a surprise. I'm going to fight back. I am a fighter, and I'm ready to fight back."

Asked about a photograph showing him sitting near Fonda at an anti-war rally in 1970, Kerry said he protested the war after he had served in Vietnam and considered his actions a measure of his character.

"Fonda has been criticized for decades for her opposition to the Vietnam War, particularly for traveling to North Vietnam in 1972, at the height of the war, and posing in an anti-aircraft gun," the Associated Press noted today.

Kerry Not Interested in His Own Past

Although Kerry, McAuliffe and other Democrats lately have been obsessed with Bush's distant past, the new focus on Kerry's radical history, which even some in the media establishment are finally beginning to acknowledge, has the senator avoiding his own actions.

"I disagreed, like everyone else in America, with the choice she made at that point in time. I thought it was terrible," Kerry said on Imus' program. "We just move on, Don. We're 30 years beyond that. I think people are interested in the future."

If so, Kerry will now have to run on his record as one of the Senate's most left-wing and anti-defense members.

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[Hon]

Suggestions for Smears

Moby told the Daily News: "For example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you're an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion."

Even the singer himself "didn't claim that he believed the abortion story," the New York newspaper reported.

[Hon]

ABORTION CLAIM HITS PRESIDENT (Flynt)
Mirror ^

Posted on 02/18/2004 1:08:37 PM EST by Stew Padasso

ABORTION CLAIM HITS PRESIDENT Feb 18 2004

By Mark Ellis, Foreign Editor

PORNOGRAPHER Larry Flynt says he has "nailed down" his claims George Bush, a pro-life campaigner, arranged for a girlfriend to have an abortion in the 1970s.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1080588/posts

[SpinyNorman]

Just send that quote to all the prolife sites.

[KantianBurke]

Republican chairman Ed Gillespie warns that Democrats are plotting "the dirtiest campaign in modern presidential politics."

Least we won't have to worry about them accusing Bush of attempting to shut down the Dept of Education huh Ed? "Settled issue" and all that right.

[Jagdgewehr]

Gillespie: Democrats Plot 'Dirtiest Campaign in Modern Presidential Politics'

So. This goes without saying. Question is, what is Ed Gillespie's strategy in countering the long-employed deceit tactics of the Democrats?

[rintense]

," Kerry said on Imus' program. "We just move on, Don. We're 30 years beyond that. I think people are interested in the future."

And yet, Kerry's campaign wants to use an abortion smear from 30 years ago to slander the President!?!?!?! Are these guys THAT stupid? I swear, Rush was right today when he said stories like this insult people's intelligence. You know what? I say BRING IT ON, Mr. Botox. You've contradicted yourself so many times, your words and actions WILL come back to haunt you.

[DonQ]

It would have to go some distance to be worse than the 1988 campaign Old Bush used against Dukakis (remember the Republican claim that they had a photo of Kitty Dukakis burning a flag?).

[UCANSEE2]

Hello!

Let's see. DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES don't want to run on/make promises about/debate about national issues or goals as President.

And they don't want to run based on their political performance or voting record.

SO...... I go to the Human resources branch of a company.

I tell them I don't know and don't want to discuss anything about my knowledge of the job, or my ability to perform the tasks, and They cannot ask my former employers for any pro or con reference info whatsoever.

Just give me the job, send me the checks, I probably won't ever show up for work unless there is a camera on my face anyway.

WILL THEY HIRE ME?

[dfwgator]

Go ahead and do it Rats, and watch President Bush win in a landslide.

[cripplecreek]

I was in a NASCAR forum when a bunch of rats showed up. They made the abortion claim and a claim that were at the 500 and couldnt hear the ppresident because of the boos. It didnt take long for them to figure out we werent a bunch of "ignernt hicks".

[Hon]

"It would have to go some distance to be worse than the 1988 campaign Old Bush used against Dukakis (remember the Republican claim that they had a photo of Kitty Dukakis burning a flag?)."

No, I don't remember that. Perhaps you will come up with a citation to refresh my memory. Or did you make it up as a joke?

[Dawgreg]

I was thinking that myself Jagdewehr. If we're not going to fight back then why should the Demonrats stop? They've run all over the Republicans for a long time with not much outrage from the Right......soooo, why shouldn't they feel they can continue?

[backhoe]

FWI, here's where that came from:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/165111p-144622c.html

And FWIW, near as I recall, Flynt claimed virtually verbatim the same thing in the 2000 election.

[Hon]

Well, I have found this claim on some sites, such as this from the "Republican Hall Of Shame":

"Steve Symms
In 1988, the Idaho Republican senator falsely accused Mike Dukakis's wife Kitty Dukakis of burning the American flag. In 1992, he lost his reelection after he divorced his very ill wife of 30 years."

http://www.keithboykin.com/arch/000838.html

Seems like pretty small potatoEs, even if it is true.

[Hon]

Here's another of the very sparce (three or four) mentions on the internet:

"Republican Senator Steve Symms had to retract his allegation that the governor's wife, Kitty, had participated in an American flag burning during a Sixties anti-war protest."

http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/id346.htm

Doesn't sound all that horrible to me.

When will Larry retract this story? He's been pumping it for years.

[Grut]

Perhaps you will come up with a citation to refresh my memory.

"In 1989, [Cong.] Symms was named at the top of the list of Spy magazine's roster of "The Stupidest Congressmen in Washington." He's also the guy who during the 1988 presidential campaign claimed he had a picture of Kitty Dukakis burning an American flag—he never produced such a photo..."

Washington City Paper, Dec. 2002

[hosepipe]

[ Gillespie: Democrats Plot 'Dirtiest Campaign in Modern Presidential Politics' ]

Dirty'er than what, when ?,,,,
Kind of hard to be dirty'er than the 90's with the Clintons..
Sounds like somebody just fell off the turnip truck...
Waco, Ruby Ridge, Whitewater, various "gates", Vince Foster, Clinton Arkancide watch, selling top secrats to the Chinese, various whitewashed, "investigations", whatever the meaning od "IS", "IS", almost selling a U.S, Navy Base (Terminal Island) to the Communist Chinese, giving up control the Panama Canal to the communist chinese,

somebody stop me !.. DIRTY POLITICS.. had to be re-defined.
Dirty'ist Campaign EVER.... Pullleeeessse.

[LiteKeeper]

INTSUM - demoRAT lack of morals and decency - unadulterated power grab effort

[CyberAnt]

Hmmmm? We might be able to head this off if we contact those people we know in the pro-life movement and tell them what to expect. If people know in advance there is an attack coming, hopefully they won't over react and we can put a stop to the "slander" before it even gets started.

YOU ALL DO REALIZE THIS IS "SLANDER" DON'T YOU. Slander is saying a falsehood about someone when you KNOW there is no truth to substantiate it. Let these people continue .. whatever money they have leftover after the election, they better invest it well, because George W. Bush will be getting most of it in slander lawsuit awards. BRING 'EM ON!!

[Freemyland]

And the thing is, this is deliberate and malicious defamation, which would even withstand the higher standard for public officials.