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Democrats Conflicted on Playing Rough
Washington Post ^ | Aug. 13, 2005 | Dana Millbank

Posted on 08/13/2005 7:09:32 AM PDT by chiller

The decision by the abortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America to pull an incendiary ad attacking President Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court has produced a fresh round of recriminations within the Democratic Party and a return to a nagging question: Has the opposition lost its nerve?

....some choice pieces:

"Republicans don't mind running an ad that's entirely false, but Democrats have never learned, and I'm not sure many of them want to learn, how to play that kind of politics," said Robert Shrum, an adviser to several Democratic presidential campaigns. NARAL had to pull the ad, he said, because "they weren't getting support from any substantial quarter."

Democratic strategist Chris Lehane, who like Shrum favors hardball politics, protested that "we Democrats bring a well-thumbed copy of Marquess of Queensberry Rules while the other side unsheaths their bloody knives, with a predictable outcome." Lehane said the NARAL ad "was great, and exactly the type of offensive that breaks through in the modern age."


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; brownshirtsforkerry; byanymeansnecessary; chrislehane; despotism; goebbelswouldbeproud; liecheatandsteal; lyingliars; mediabias; naral; negativecampaigning; propaganda; rattricks; roberts; thebiglie; unamerican
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More confirmation that they've lost their mind. Using the Marquess of Queensberry rules? BBBBWWWAAAAAAAAHHHHAAAAAA !!

1 posted on 08/13/2005 7:09:32 AM PDT by chiller
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2 posted on 08/13/2005 7:11:28 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (We are grateful to our fine military. God bless them and their families.)
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To: chiller
D-E-L-U-S-I-O-N

Its kinda sad, and kinda fun to watch :-)

3 posted on 08/13/2005 7:11:57 AM PDT by keithtoo (Howard Dean's Democratic Party: Traitors, Haters, and Vacillators)
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To: chiller
When did we eyer before see ads for or against a SCOTUS nominee? The whole thing is quite odd.
4 posted on 08/13/2005 7:12:18 AM PDT by CasearianDaoist
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To: chiller
Bob Shrum and Chris Lehane.

Both pot and kettle. A twofer.

5 posted on 08/13/2005 7:13:13 AM PDT by CaptRon (Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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To: chiller
Democratic strategist Chris Lehane, who like Shrum favors hardball politics, protested that "we Democrats bring a well-thumbed copy of Marquess of Queensberry Rules while the other side unsheaths their bloody knives, with a predictable outcome."

Naw, Democrats aren't elitists....

...what in the heck does this even mean, anyway?

6 posted on 08/13/2005 7:13:53 AM PDT by TBarnett34 (Hillary Clinton IS the Great Satan.)
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?...Democrats Conflicted on Playing Rough...plan annual,..."DNC Blue Dress Ball"?

/Oil the Oiled?

7 posted on 08/13/2005 7:14:21 AM PDT by maestro
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To: CasearianDaoist

Demwits get there Butts kicked again.


8 posted on 08/13/2005 7:15:27 AM PDT by jocko12
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Naw, Democrats aren't elitists.... ?

since when?

/Stalin and gang

9 posted on 08/13/2005 7:16:10 AM PDT by maestro
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To: chiller

Don't you wonder sometimes how a party that is so out of touch with reality even survives as well as it does? I swear, you have to have deep-seated emotional problems to be a Rat these days.


10 posted on 08/13/2005 7:17:05 AM PDT by speedy
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To: chiller
"Republicans don't mind running an ad that's entirely false, but Democrats have never learned, and I'm not sure many of them want to learn, how to play that kind of politics," said Robert Shrum, an adviser to several Democratic presidential campaigns all of them failures, by the way

Where are the examples of Republican ads that are entirely false, Shrum?

11 posted on 08/13/2005 7:17:57 AM PDT by Bahbah (Air America: kids-for-kilowatts)
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It means that we are better at it than they are. And they keep getting caught lying.


12 posted on 08/13/2005 7:19:02 AM PDT by Thebaddog (How's yer dawgs?)
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"Republicans don't mind running an ad that's entirely false, but Democrats have never learned, and I'm not sure many of them want to learn, how to play that kind of politics," said Robert Shrum

And most Democrats are nodding their heads in agreement upon reading this, no doubt.

13 posted on 08/13/2005 7:19:25 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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I would like to know just what in the swift boat add were untrue. If this is the case let kerry sue them. I bet that the truth is that NARAL's legal epople told them to pull the ads for fear of slander litigation.

It is rediculous to compare the two.

In fact, given the amount of lawyers in the Dem party, the GOP cannot get away with the level of slander that the Rats get away with on a daily basis.

14 posted on 08/13/2005 7:20:42 AM PDT by CasearianDaoist
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To: Bahbah
I think he's referring to a Willie Horton add that ran ten million years ago. Now that I think about it, Algore broke that story. Didn't Shrum do that one?
15 posted on 08/13/2005 7:20:46 AM PDT by Thebaddog (How's yer dawgs?)
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"Democrats Conflicted on Playing Rough"

But the Democrats are in full agreement in playing with themselves.


16 posted on 08/13/2005 7:21:29 AM PDT by NathanBookman (Will this hurt Bush's re-election chances?)
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Democrats Conflicted on Playing Rough

We ain't seen nothin' yet. Wait til they sense how threatening the Gorelick thing is for their Party. Gorelick's wall doomed all.

Lies, half-truths, contradictions, malevolence, obfuscation -- Mau-Mauing in other words. The only way to deflect the flak.

The usual leftist shenanigans. Expect heavy outpouring from the MSM's Democrat activists until the public is sick of it. Republicans to bail out first, I bet.

Cue the families who blame Bush for 9/11 -- off to join Ms Sheehan at Crawford. Opening soon, Michael Moore's "disAble Danger". This is serious. Hillary could be exposed. (Relax! Not literally exposed, I meant. . . .)

17 posted on 08/13/2005 7:21:50 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (Hillary is the she in shenanigans.)
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To: chiller

Robert Shrum is Monica to the KKK (Jack, Bobby, Teddy) and a failure as a democrat strategist.


18 posted on 08/13/2005 7:21:52 AM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: speedy
Don't you wonder sometimes how a party that is so out of touch with reality even survives as well as it does? I


I suspect the people that vote democrat every four years don't follow politics closely the other 3 years, and don't really care to.
19 posted on 08/13/2005 7:23:22 AM PDT by CAWats (I will bless those that bless thee and curse those that curse thee)
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To: TBarnett34

This from the party that hoaxed negative National Guard memos and the media establishment that promoted the story without mentioning the controversy of the authenticity for a week.

This from the party that destroyed National Security documents from the National Archives before an investigation into the failures in procedure that permitted the 9-11 attacks to occur and the media establishment that downplayed the scandal.

This from the party that pushed the lie that President Bush was behind legislation to draft young Americans into "his" wars even though the only legislation in the House and Senate was authored by hard left Democrats and the story was pushed 24-7 (especially on Viacommie/SeeBS' MTV) by the media establishment.

Can't these fools just **** off?


20 posted on 08/13/2005 7:25:21 AM PDT by weegee (The Rovebaiting by DUAC must stop. It is nothing but a partisan witchhunt.)
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