[2ndDivisionVet]

CBS News and TNR, what's not to loathe? Idiot leftists can't even get the head line right! LOL

The Lewinsky scandal "overblown"? You can't make this stuff up!!

[AmericaUnited]

I miss Lee Atwater. One of the few times the GOP played the game right... with conjones...

[Berlin_Freeper]

“Eight years ago, George W. Bush’s supporters, apparently backed by the state’s GOP establishment”

Right there CBS is guilty of playing the dirty tricks they accuse all these Republicans of doing.

[Vigilanteman]

See BS is at it again trying to draw parallels between a good and decent (but dead) man like Lee Atwater and the Clinton slime machine. How much Chinese cash did Atwater take? How many people did he rape or murder? His only crime was playing hard and winning . . . something we need more Republicans to do.

While it is easy to see that the enemedia is rooting for Rudi to pull the party and the center further to the left, his sole appeal is based on the fading prospect that he can beat the Hildebeast in places like New Jersey, Connecticut or Pennsylvania. Now that their precious polls are beginning to show otherwise and people are beginning to take a serious look at other candidates like Fred Thompson or Mitt Romney, it is time to start firing up the slime machine on these guys.

[6SJ7]

The Lewinsky scandal "overblown"?

Well, I guess so!  ;-)

[Dr. Sivana]

This article is filled with inaccuracies and misleading statements.

But South Carolina is far too important for that: Not since 1976 has a Republican candidate been nominated without winning the state's contest, the third of the primary season.

The South Carolina primary was MUCH later in 1976. After New Hampshire came Massachusetts and FLorida. It was Reagan's loss in Florida (Ford's Social Security fear-mongering) that hurt his chances of winning the '76 nomination.

In 1980, a young Atwater [ . . .] proposed to vault Reagan to front-runner status by engineering a prominent win for him in Atwater's home state. [ . . . ] In 1996, after Pat Buchanan defeated Bob Dole in New Hampshire, local leaders ordered evangelicals, who in their hearts preferred the populist insurgent, to side with Dole instead, sending him back on his way to his nomination.

It was Arizona, not South Carolina, that derailed Buchanan. South Carolina is important not just because it is early, but because it is the first southern state to hold a full blown primary (Louisiana had early caucuses in 1996 that Buchanan won).

[sirchtruth]

I would be the first one to call Mormonism a cult, but using it to discredit Romney
is weak.

Personally I don't think the man has a snowball's chance in hades to win
regardless of his false religious background.

[Graybeard58]

In 1996, after Pat Buchanan defeated Bob Dole in New Hampshire, local leaders ordered evangelicals, who in their hearts preferred the populist insurgent, to side with Dole instead

Yep, I remember it well, I was going to vote for Pat but local leaders ordered me not to, orders are orders.

Now my local leaders are ordering me to vote for Rudy in the primary...Guess I'll just have to do it.

[Gurn]

The letters depicted Mormonism as based on "hoaxes" and ridiculed the church's founder, Joseph Smith, as a "gold digger turned prophet."

Okay. That's true.

The mailing also provocatively dubbed Smith "the Mohammed of the West."

Smith called himself that. So, this is true, also.

"Like the prophet of Islam," it said, "Smith founded his religion upon prophecies and revelations which commanded him to become a polygamist and warlord.

Uh, this is true, too. Facts are difficult things.

[WOSG]

“Still, the race remains a muddle. Romney has lagged in the polls behind front-runners Fred Thompson, who seems to be benefiting from his Southern roots, and Rudy Giuliani, whose star power and “toughness” obscure a weak ground team.”

RCP poll average has Rudy, Romney, and Thompson effectively tied. It’s a jump-ball.

“Of course, those numbers can and probably will change - not least as voters wrestle with Giuliani’s fundamental moderation on social concerns, like gun control and gay rights. (At one event in early October, Rudy even suggested that the Lewinsky scandal had been overblown.)”

I cannot believe Rudy was foolish enough to say that. Clinton blew it with Lewinsky, but that’s not quite the same thing. :-0

[WOSG]

“Still, the race remains a muddle. Romney has lagged in the polls behind front-runners Fred Thompson, who seems to be benefiting from his Southern roots, and Rudy Giuliani, whose star power and “toughness” obscure a weak ground team.”

RCP poll average has Rudy, Romney, and Thompson effectively tied. It’s a jump-ball.

“Of course, those numbers can and probably will change - not least as voters wrestle with Giuliani’s fundamental moderation on social concerns, like gun control and gay rights. (At one event in early October, Rudy even suggested that the Lewinsky scandal had been overblown.)”

I cannot believe Rudy was foolish enough to say that. Clinton blew it with Lewinsky, but that’s not quite the same thing. :-0