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The Republicans Guilt-by-Association Gamble
Washington Post ^
| December 15, 2008; 11:45 AM ET
| Chris Cillizza
Posted on 12/16/2008 11:51:42 AM PST by lewisglad
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posted on
12/16/2008 11:51:42 AM PST
by
lewisglad
To: lewisglad
"Did we mention that he voted with Bush 90% of all time?"
Nuff said.
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posted on
12/16/2008 11:53:54 AM PST
by
SolidWood
(Sarah Palin - Everything that is Sweetness and Light! WE STAND WITH HER!)
To: lewisglad
Hey - how about somebody leak 0bama’s real birth certificate - without official attribution, of course.
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posted on
12/16/2008 11:54:17 AM PST
by
Post Toasties
(It's not a smear if it's true.)
To: lewisglad
Hey - how about somebody leak 0bama’s real birth certificate - without official attribution, of course.
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posted on
12/16/2008 11:54:19 AM PST
by
Post Toasties
(It's not a smear if it's true.)
To: lewisglad
Am I missing something? Seems to me any attempts to attach Blago and Obama have been in the media.
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posted on
12/16/2008 11:54:24 AM PST
by
ScottinVA
(islam IS the problem!)
To: SolidWood
Half the country already thinks Zero knows more than he’s letting on.
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posted on
12/16/2008 11:54:44 AM PST
by
lewisglad
To: lewisglad
RE :”strategy as nothing more than a partisan attack at a time when people want political leaders to come together to solve problems?”
I agree that this is very risky given BoB is so popular (he hasnt done anything yet). This is good for 527s and Hannity at least until it catches. Just my guess, then again, what do we have to lose?
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posted on
12/16/2008 11:55:43 AM PST
by
sickoflibs
(GWB : "Give me a 700B blank check to save the UAW until Obama takes office")
To: lewisglad
Chris calls Ted Strickland a ‘moderate’ Dem when he’s actually a ‘progressive’!
Chris is a fool!
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posted on
12/16/2008 11:56:37 AM PST
by
griswold3
To: lewisglad
RNC ad is just about Duncan trying to keep his job.
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posted on
12/16/2008 11:57:23 AM PST
by
SMCC1
To: lewisglad
That’s not the Blagojevich I know.
This POS is the center of the slime pool and no one questions anything?
Hopefully that pool has a fast emptying drain.
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posted on
12/16/2008 11:57:51 AM PST
by
TribalPrincess2U
(Welcome to Obama's America... Be afraid, be very afraid)
To: SolidWood
Don’t forget in 2006 how many equated Mark Foley with the Republican party. And before that with Newt.
To: lewisglad
That same poll showed Obama with very solid personal approval scores (67 percent positive/16 percent negative) and a belief among a majority of voters (52 percent) that Obama will be able to accomplish his stated goal of bringing "more cooperation and less bickering between the political parties."There is a Democrat for President so they bring back out the split approval rating system, peronal and job. Bush only got one rating called "the approval rating". When everyone was sick of Clinton, they dumped personal approval ratings and just used job approval. It's a convenient system
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posted on
12/16/2008 11:59:05 AM PST
by
PasorBob
To: lewisglad
Of course, now that his sycophants have done an internal review and has said the Messiah has done nothing wrong, I’m sure those “doubters” are now convinced.
“Guilt by Association?” Are they kidding? Emmanuel is, I believe, on TAPE with the governor talking about the Senate seat and I doubt that he did anything without Obigula’s blessing. They reek of it.
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posted on
12/16/2008 11:59:17 AM PST
by
Right Cal Gal
(Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
To: lewisglad
I don't think linking Obama by association is much of a gamble at all. Why does the media think we should play nice with this fraud? What would we gain by doing so? Everyone opposed to the Obama Presidency should make the accusations every day. That is what the Democrats did to President Bush for 8 long years. Now it is our time to see that Obama becomes as irrelevant as possible.
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posted on
12/16/2008 12:00:57 PM PST
by
jerry639
(Obama=false hope for delusional followers.)
To: lewisglad
Will voters perceive this strategy as nothing more than a partisan attack at a time when people want political leaders to come together to solve problems? -Chris CillizaVoters have zero opinion about the openly partisan RNC fanning the flames of a legitimate scandal. Voters care about the corruption, which is one of those problems they "want political leaders to come together to solve."
At the very best, Obama did nothing to curtail the rampant corruption in the Illinois Democratic machine.
To: NutCrackerBoy
“Obama did nothing”
Sums up his entire career.
With any luck, the Blagojevich matter will not go away despite the MSM’s best efforts. And Obama will spend the next four years with his hands tied.
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posted on
12/16/2008 12:08:39 PM PST
by
ZirconEncrustedTweezers
(God helps those who help themselves. The government helps those who don't.)
To: lewisglad
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posted on
12/16/2008 12:08:58 PM PST
by
Free Vulcan
(No prisoners. No mercy. 2010 awaits.....)
To: lewisglad
I counted
"Republican" 6 times in the excerpted portion of this article, including the headline.
"Democrat" count was... zero.
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posted on
12/16/2008 12:15:29 PM PST
by
Ken H
To: lewisglad
The author has a point-why can’t we treat the new president with a little kindness and respect-like the Democrats did to Bush during the start of his 2 terms.
Payback is a bitch.
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posted on
12/16/2008 12:20:15 PM PST
by
Larry381
(The White House soon will be filled with BO)
To: lewisglad
Well, as someone noted on FOX the other evening, there was NO mention of Blago’s political affiliation by any of the major news networks or cable news shows.
Half of the country probably thinks Blago is a Republican and all (R) officials are corrupt - at least according to the DBM.
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posted on
12/16/2008 12:26:35 PM PST
by
Arrowhead1952
(The main stream media lied - America died.)
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