Democratic Party Condemns MD4BUSH Attacks

WBAL-TV ^ | Wedenesday, November 9, 2005 | David Collins

[rvoitier]

"...MD4BUSH used in his bid to engage a former Gov. Robert Ehrlich aide..."

Who said MD4Bush is a 'his'? I get the vague impression it's that Lane woman who seemed to have a grudge against the gov. But that's just me.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Timeline Revealed For MD4BUSH, O'Malley Rumors

".. The mayor again said he doesn't know the identity of MD4BUSH, and repeated he's just grateful that whoever it is exposed what he called a campaign of smear. O'Malley also said he did not know about the MD4BUSH postings when he brought up the rumor himself in November.

MD4BUSH did leave an as-yet undisclosed electronic trail in the Free Republic postings -- a trail a source describes as "sloppy"..."

The above is more indicative of how the Democratic Party actually feels about the actions of MD4Bush. They are grateful, but wish he had not left an electronic trail.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

The rumors about O'Malley and Milkulski were around a LONG TIME before Steffen or MD4BUSH entered the scene. I heard the unsavory rumors about Milkulski, for instance, during the 1980s. The rumors about O'Malley were around in Democrat circles in Maryland well before the FR episode.
It seems like someone in Dem circles picked up on the MSM chatter about "conservative blogs" and FR and decided to try to create their own news with their own spin for political and ideological purposes.

[ianschwartz]

I wish the Dems would stand behind their word for once and launch an investigation. I am confident that Ehrlich and his staffers have nothing to do with this, this brought morals to Maryland government -- for the first time in over three decades.

[Allosaurs_r_us]

"It is despicable in my opinion," said Keiffer Mitchell, co-chairman of the state Democratic party. "It is gutter politics. It should not take place."

"We condemn MD4BUSH for getting caught and embarrassing the DemonRat party." said Keiffer Mitchell, co-chairman of the state Democratic party. "If you can't do a better job of concealing our modus operandi, then at least have the courtesy of leaving it to those of us who do not get caught. Also we would appreciate you not taking lessons from Mary Mapes. She no longer works for the party and her book stinks!"

Snicker! 

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

The Dems seemed to have reacted emotionally. Despite all the hoopla, chatter on FR probably had very little if any direct impact on Maryland politics or elections prior to this staged episode which apparently was a Dem dirty tricks operation which has now backfired into the usual absurd liberal silliness. It may be an example of how the one-party-rule mind works. They were blown away that Bob Ehrlich kept Kathleen Skakel Kennedy out of the State House in Annapolis. The liberal writers at The Baltimore Sun are still having tantrums over that.

Kerry's defeat and the Buckhead episode with Rathergate may have pushed them over the edge into permanent psychosis. These are pretty deranged people. O'Malley, supposedly, was once a Gary Hart volunteer. Well, we remember what happened to Gary Hart...

[Anti-Bubba182]

Kathleen Skakel Kennedy was a lousy candidate also.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

But the libs - in a manic episode of Kennedy Camelot fever - were floored that their tyrannical multi-decade death grip on Annapolis was snatched away.

The way they have tried to smear Ehrlich with the MD4BUSH-instigated insinuations on FR is the real "dirty tricks" story here. The Sun even ran with articles smearing ALL conservative bloggers in the post-Buckhead frenzy when Kerry supporters were seeking therapy and psychiatric treatment over the "moral values thing" in the 2004 presidential election. And it's not just local. Dan Rather has been traveling the country offering his own anti-blogger hysteria. He was practically in tears at one appearance. It may have been at The Kennedy School (I can't keep track of the liberal kook circuit).

Just consider that - Buckhead and FR have Dan Rather weeping and the Maryland Dems shooting themselves in the foot! And what are they upset about? They can't stand conservatives speaking up and pointing out their lunacies online. Essentially, they are AGAINST free speech!

[conservative in nyc]

Jim Robinson had this to say about whether he thought Michelle Lane was MD4Bush. Reading between the lines, MD4Bush is a he:

I don't think this is MD4Bush. We can probably rule out about half of the general population and this lady is one. Course, I would have no idea if they were working in concert. Not saying or even hinting they were, just have no idea. Some reporter mentioned in an article a few weeks ago that certain emails were circulated from mddems.org. Doubt the investigation can go there, but that'd probably be a good place to start if they could. I think it should be obvious to all that MD4Bush was a Democrat politcial operative. A dirty tricks communications specialist so to speak.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

The disgruntled female supposedly was shopping anti-Ehrlich state politics dirt. Following the principle of "three degrees of separation" that could have led to a number of different outlets - The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Post, the Mayor's Office, and the Maryland Dems. WBAL, I seem to recall, hinted back in February that a "Democrat political operative" had been approaching the media with some rumors or a leak of some kind. Those in the know have probably already been able to connect the dots...

But never underestimate the deviousness of an angry liberal woman in need of money and attention.

[Quilla]

Hmmmm... Did Jim Robinson give us a clue?

Communications Director O'Doherty = a dirty tricks communications specialist.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Flash back to the past on this:

To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity

"Democrat operative."
"A democrat active in....Maryland politics..."

That's what we've suspected. Have they mentioned a name yet?

21 posted on 02/12/2005 8:09:49 AM EST by Quilla

To: Quilla

No, but the program host and station manager have both been on air stating that they were first approached with the rumor by a "Democrat operative" associated with Montgomery County politics. This would imply a regional rival for the governor's race INSIDE the Democrat Party.

29 posted on 02/12/2005 8:14:30 AM EST by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1341711/posts?page=29#29

[conservative in nyc]

Hmmmm... Did Jim Robinson give us a clue?

Communications Director O'Doherty = a dirty tricks communications specialist

In hindsight... Yes.

[Cicero]

Since Doctor Raoul doesn't seem to be here, I'll post this for him:

WHAT DID THE WASHINGTON POST KNOW, AND WHEN DID THEY KNOW IT?

[Quilla]

Incredible that you could pull up that post from so many months ago. Kudos.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

We're a tricky bunch in the conservative blogosphere.

Hee, hee, hee..

[CollegeRepublican]

I'm beginning to sense it leads back to O'Malley's staff.

I am not sensing anything. I am convinced that MD4Bush was a demoncrat plant who was stalking Joe Steffan on this site. MD4Bush said some horrible things and engaged Steffan attempting to get Steffan to join in the bashing to start a scandal connected to Ehrlich. A couple months after the NCPAC MD4Bush conversation, O'Malley said some stupid things about Bush and the war, so he pulled this staged scandal out of his back pocket to save his butt. Similar to Clinton and Monica testifying before the Grand Jury. Missiles into Iraq the same day. O'Malley needed to change the news cycle, so this story was released to the Compost. Instead of being a loud mouth idiot spreading treasonous lies, now O'Malley is a victim of Republican dirty tricks (which is a lie, but constantly repeated). Even though it was probably the Maryland Democratic Party spreading the rumors and blaming it on the Republicans. Incredible. BTW, I am pretty sure that it was O'Malley's wife who spread the rumors several years ago when giving an interview to the post, but at that time she was blaming African American Democrats who were running against her innocent victimized husband for Mayor.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

The likely scenario which emerges is not very flattering to the Democrats. In fact, it's rather creepy in that sleazy way that only amoral liberals can do so well.

It's no big secret that O'Malley has exalted ambitions for high office even imagining possible runs for the Senate and the Presidency in the future. He was planning to run for Governor. He knew he had to confront these rumors because, well, it seems they may even be true. The mayor likes to party. Somehow through that creepy communications specialist maze of the Dems - in between partying it up in New York and Miami, and various bare-shouldered steroided-up guitar outings - it was arranged to stage this FR PR stunt in orchestrated coordination with The Washington Post and The Baltimore Sun. The mayor himself stood before the television cameras, in a Clintonesque moment reminiscent of Clinton's crocodile tears at Ron Brown's funeral, and told a pure white lie - claiming that the rumors harming his "family" had been started on FR by someone on the governor's staff (something he and ALL Dems knew was not true).

[LibertarianInExile]

ROFLMAO.

That must have been one of the co-chairman--the Rats have elevated double speak to an art when one of their chairmen calls MD4BUSH a hero and the other condemns him. No wonder John Kerry was their nominee.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Since the original MSM spin to this story was that someone on the Governor's staff was the "source" of rumors about the mayor's recreational night life , don't they now have the burden of telling their readers and viewers what the actual known origins are of reports of mayoral immorality?
Since Joe Steffen lost his job over this brouhaha, shouldn't MD4BUSH be held to the same standard? Or does the media offer amnesty for liberal Democrats when they are caught engaged in smear operations?