Posted on 06/03/2004 1:44:16 PM PDT by RWR8189
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Washington, DC-RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie issued the following statement in response to comments made today by John Kerry supporter George Soros comparing prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison to the terror attacks on 9-11.
“Abu Ghraib was bad and the soldiers involved are rightly being punished, but for Democrats to say that the abuse of Iraqi fighters is the moral equivalent of the slaughter of 3,000 innocent Americans is outrageous. Their hatred of the President is fueling a blame America first mentality that is troubling.”
I like the way they tie Soros to Kerry's tail. Kerry either has to
1.) Repudiate Soros
2.) Repudiate his statement
3.) Embrace his statement
4.) Ignore his statement.
It's a lose-lose-lose-tie proposition for Kerry. If Kerry's smart he'll ignore it.
I am certain also that not only will this be the lead story for several weeks in the news, finally overshadowing the Abhu Gharab prision story, but that the pressure will continue to build forcing John Francois Fonda Kerri D-Hanoi to disavow the remarks of his number one supporter and chief fundraiser resulting in his refusal to accept any more funding from him or his affiliated associations.
What's that you say, er Mr. Soros is not a Republican? Oh, neeeevvvver mind!
Soros is NOT even a real American. It is a bit difficult to prove now since I noticed that ALL the links on the internet concerning his past have been removed now or changed.
Damnable communist made billionaire by OUR tax dollars that were supposedly to help the soviet people to "democracize".
Doesn't he look amazingly like our last sec state madelleine allbright ???
They could be twins? They could be ONE and the SAME?!
Come on, Ed! You can't think of something better than this tired old line. He should be laughing about the comment and then methodically analyzing the statement in front of the press, dissecting it to demonstrate the left's lack of intellectual reasoning. Describe how making someone wear underwear is not as bad as ramming a plane into a building. Talk down to the left as if they were grade-school children incapable of running themselves much less the country. Our side is being thrown softballs by these leftist wackos and we cower and cautiously treat them as hard-balls rather than simply smacking them out of the park.
I like that, but I would have made it C-Hanoi, meaning what he is, communist-Hanoi. Since he loves the communist Vietnamese so much.
I really don't see the difference between D and C. These days they are interchangable!
Mr. Gillespie's statement is far too short. It is unimaginative, lazy, and not attention-getting. He should
be much tougher on both Soros and Kerry. And demanding a repudiation from Kerry should be a no-brainer.
What are they thinking at the RNC?
In addition, Gillespie makes the same mistake that most leading Republicans make when responding to an attack:
He wastes half his words acknowledging that the other side has a point, and repeating the charge before refuting it.
This is ludicrous, especially when the statement is so brief. Again, what is the RNC thinking?
And since he's not, I'm sure he'll vote to embrace Soros' statement before he repudiates it.
What galls me the most is the way that Bush had nothing of substance to say about the Judge Pickering nomination until he had recess appointed him. The yellow-bellied Senate Republicans couldn't muster a counteroffensive against Schmuck Chumer and the rest of the pro-abortion anti-Catholic bigots, and Pickering's rejection was repeated with other candidates.
Afterward, an amazing thing happened: Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes interviewed Pickering, presented a comprehensive profile of him, detailed his history as an advocate of equal and civil rights, his lifelong friendships with black people in his community, and let Pickering explain in detail the heaviest charge against him: that he reduced the jail term of a Klansman whom he felt didn't deserve the same long sentence as other Klansman involved in a cross-burning incident. The facts of the matter put the lie to those who implied that Pickering's giving what he thought was a fairer sentence for one of several Klansmen involved in the incident was the act of a racist.
Schumer, who was briefly interviewed by Wallace for the piece, looked petty, vindictive, and unconcerned with the facts of the case -- in other words, it was accurate.
I was thrilled that such a fair and balanced piece came out of CBS. It was akin to finding a diamond buried in a sack of steer manure. I stood up and applauded the television, and said, "That wasn't that hard, was it, Mike?" I hoped that there would be praise from the likes of Freepers so that they would be encouraged to be that fair in the future.
Then I got mad. Why? Because there was NOTHING preventing the White House from doing the same thing that Wallace did -- displaying all the facts, collecting Pickering's wealth of lifelong black friends, laying the Klan case out so that it couldn't be misinterpreted, and letting the Schumers of the Senate make asses of themselves by trying to smear Pickering.
But no. Karl Rove and whoever did what they always do when the situation demands action: Next to nothing, or nothing at all.
I think the GOP needs to understand the Lefties better. I don't think the President conducts himself in such a way as to inspire this personal hatred. The Left has as much resentment of those who elected GWB as they do the President himself, but instead of saying they hate that many Americans they claim to hate only GWB.
But the idiot faithful don't object to that kind of mindless rhetoric, in fact, they eat it up with a big spoon. A significant segment of our population seems ripe for sterilization.
Here are a couple of articles about Soros (Dzjcgdzhe Shorash) that might interest you. Is he an American citizen now? Just wondering...
http://beginnersinvest.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fdir.salon.com%2Fpeople%2Fbc%2F2001%2F03%2F27%2Fsoros%2Findex.html
George Soros: Billionaire for the Left
By Lowell Ponte
FrontPageMagazine.com | November 13, 2003
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=10781
Thanks for those links - very informative especially the almost total lack of links to his TRUE NAME!
Dzjcgdzhe Shorash
I've thought about this a bit. I'm not sure if hate is the right word or not since it seems to be fairly shallow. Kind of reminds me of the 'hatred' Alabama fans have for Auburn and vice-versa. We are on the other team and they want to win so they 'hate' us. Bush has not done anything to make them hate him. He certainly hasn't been as outrageous as Clinton was in getting away with murder. That's my view of it anyway.
Preachin' ta da choir don't win ya no swing voters.
I love it too .. and for Hillary to be out there front and center kissing him on the cheek as she introduces him .. it puts Soros front and center as the VOICE OF THE DEMOCRAT party. Great!
The RNC must do a GREAT job exposing who Soros really is .. this can only turn off more democrats.
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