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Posted on 04/07/2004 8:07:51 PM PDT by Pan_Yan

Indeed, the Republican Attack Machine is now such an entrenched part of the political landscape that it no longer seems remarkable - until you stop and think about the corrosive effect it has on our political discourse.

- Dan Kennedy

- March 11, 2004

- The Boston Phoenix

"We have no illusions about the Republican attack machine and what our opponents have done in the past, and what they may try to do in the future. But I know that together, we are equal to this task. I am a fighter, …"

- John F. Kerry

- Super Tuesday II

- Washington Times

Lockhart repeatedly blamed the "Republican attack machine" and the media for making too much of recent Clinton controversies.

- Joe Lockhart quoted by Susan Jones

- February 13, 2001

- CNSNews

Even the most die-hard media critic "centrist" must concede one thing: the vaunted Republican Party "attack machine," is no myth.

- Jack McCarthy

- August 24, 2001

- Counterpunch.org

Even Democratic Party insiders and Kerry campaign strategists have been bewildered at the passive silence and blundering slowness of the massive Republican attack machine to crank up and start countering their own powerful and highly effective blasts.

- Martin Sieff

- March 9, 2004

- Insightmag.com

"Given the record of this Administration and their stunning lack of vision, the Republican attack machine may well have no choice but to resort to smear and to fear," Senator Kerry said in Milwaukee.

- John F. Kerry

- February 16, 2004

- The Age

The Republican attack machine is gearing up. The plan is to "Dukakisize" Kerry, turning him into a clone of the wonkish former Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis who lost to Bush's father in 1988.

- Eleanor Clift

- January 30, 2004

- Newsweek

But now the Bush attack machine has crossed the line again.

- DNC email

- Posted by iliac on November 24, 2003

- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1027927/posts

In 2004, we're not going to yield an inch to the Republican attack machine when it comes to defining what this campaign is all about.

- William J. Clinton

- March 16, 2004

- Newsmax

Hannity and the rest of the Fox crew were at it all week, and still are. And the rest of the Republican Attack Machine quickly geared up.

- Dan Kennedy

- November 14, 2003

- The Boston Phoenix

National Republican Attack Machine To Be Let Loose on California

- Debra DeShong (DNC)

- August 21, 2003

- Workers Against the California Recall

It won't be long before the Republican attack machine will spread out all over the country to distort and smear Democratic candidates for Senate. As you know, winning a Democratic majority is one of the only ways to stop the Republican's right wing extreme agenda.

- Anne Lewis

- Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

Still, the Republican attack machine brings to bear more big guns than the Red Army in its final assault on Berlin.

- Joel Connelly

- March 17, 2004

- Seattle Post-Intelligencer


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: attackmachine; gravitas; quagmire; republicanattack
These are only some selected entries from a google search that dealt over 4000 hits for the exact phrase "Republican Attack Machine."

Like ever expanding ripples, the phrase moved from DNC, to politicians, to major media, to on line journals, to chat room entries.
1 posted on 04/07/2004 8:07:51 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan
Is it just me, or do others also get the urge to get up and go flush the toilet when we read liberal ranting? LOL
2 posted on 04/07/2004 8:09:34 PM PDT by Viking2002
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To: Pan_Yan
they don't have a great deal of gravitas, do they?
3 posted on 04/07/2004 8:09:38 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it)
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To: Pan_Yan
Didn't someone copywright "Republican Attack Machine"?
4 posted on 04/07/2004 8:10:23 PM PDT by Redcoat LI ("help to drive the left one into the insanity.")
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5 posted on 04/07/2004 8:10:50 PM PDT by Support Free Republic (Freepers post from sun to sun, but a fundraiser bot's work is never done.)
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To: Pan_Yan


This was the priceless gem of my search. I couldn't have made this up. Mao would be proud.
6 posted on 04/07/2004 8:12:41 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

"I like their banner."

7 posted on 04/07/2004 8:14:48 PM PDT by Petronski (I'm not always cranky.)
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To: Pan_Yan
So what do the libs call all of their shots during the past year whilst they were engaged in their selection process...throwing flowers of love?

Not one positive thing has come out of their pieholes in regards to the President since they started, as far as they are concerned President Bush was responsible for the Black Plague centuries ago.

What isn't he responsible for except stopping terror attacks on American soil, getting the economy going again, tax cuts, the Laci and Connor bill, etc., etc. He has done a lot of positive things since he took office, and all these cretins can do is look for the negative.

As a good friend once told me years ago;
"Intelligent people make ideas into reality
Smart people talk about ideas, and ....

Stupid people just BITCH, BITCH, BITCH!"

Maybe we should just call all of these naysayers "Stupid".


Cheers!
8 posted on 04/07/2004 8:15:45 PM PDT by SZonian (The truth hurts, so bury it! (Liberal tagline))
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To: Pan_Yan
you are right, but, unfortunately, these people are able to stay on message and shape public opionion more effectively than the other side of the aisle. Th White House does this fairly effectively, but the rest of the elected officials from the party seem to follow their own scripts.
9 posted on 04/07/2004 8:16:15 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To: Pan_Yan
Some of us are trying to convince Jim Robinson that we need a cable broadcast station. WRAM-TV!
10 posted on 04/07/2004 8:17:14 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: Pan_Yan
LOL, those idiots always use violent imagery to describe conservative activism...Although they've been attacking our culture to the point of destruction for almost 40 years, have you ever heard of "Leftist attack machine"?;)
11 posted on 04/07/2004 8:22:12 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Frank_2001
Actually, I'm looking for a left wing malitia group to join.
12 posted on 04/07/2004 8:25:04 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Frank_2001
How about "LeftWing Lying Machine...."
13 posted on 04/07/2004 8:26:17 PM PDT by freebilly
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14 posted on 04/07/2004 8:29:27 PM PDT by Lady Jag (I dreamed I surfed all day in my monthly donor wonder bra.)
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Okay, click this one then

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15 posted on 04/07/2004 8:31:08 PM PDT by Lady Jag (I dreamed I surfed all day in my monthly donor wonder bra.)
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To: Pan_Yan
Good post!

All I can say is that arrests on a mass scale seem to be in order.
16 posted on 04/07/2004 9:03:26 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (DEFUND PBS & NPR - THE AMERICAN PRAVDA)
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To: Pan_Yan
I've looked and looked but I see no pattern here, just a common sense warning about the Republican Attack Machine, which runs on LEADED Diesel fuel that destroys the ozone and chokes the life from pretty white seagulls all while increasing the deficit at a faster rate than any time since the Great Depression...plus the RAM has bad breath, ingrown toenail, and poor grammar.
17 posted on 04/07/2004 10:54:49 PM PDT by Once-Ler (Proud Republican. and Bushbot.)
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To: Pan_Yan
just remember - the delusional leftist (and, by definition, almost all leftists are delusional) does not engage in analysis and debate. Instead, s/he/it engages in Projection and Crapflinging.

Groupthink and "talking points" are THEIR bag, not ours.
18 posted on 04/08/2004 6:09:50 AM PDT by King Prout (You may disagree with what I have to say... but I will defend to YOUR death MY right to say it.)
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To: Pan_Yan

Republican Attack Machine
19 posted on 04/08/2004 6:37:52 AM PDT by boris (The deadliest weapon of mass destruction in history is a Leftist with a word processor)
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