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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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To: lewisglad

ENRON


41 posted on 12/16/2008 1:34:55 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. -C.S. Lewis)
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To: Post Toasties
Hey - how about somebody lear Obama's real birth certificate - without official attribution, of course.

That might require paying a bribe to someone in Kenya.

42 posted on 12/16/2008 1:37:16 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: muawiyah

James Webb probably would have lost (the outcome was extremely close) if not for the Compost’s endlessly obsessing over the “macaca” comment...supposedly reflecting a negative connotation of the word when used by North African Jews. But for that, Harry Reid wouldn’t have been majority leader the past two years.


43 posted on 12/16/2008 1:41:02 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus
The Post endlessly obsessed on Senator Warner's mother having been a Jew during WWII, with or without the Macaca deal.

BTW, that guy was a "macaca" ~ and another one who popped up in Quebec during the Summer shot 18 people. They had identical peculiar haircuts.

Senator Allen would have been well advised to have had the puke REMOVED rather than just referring to him.

44 posted on 12/16/2008 1:50:40 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: lewisglad
GUILT BY ASSOCIATION--"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

How I'd love to start a movement to take on this new meme that the left thinks has power. Guilt by association is a logical fallacy, not a moral failure in politics. See wiki below for a definition.

It is in no wise unfair or illogical to "judge a man by the company he keeps" or to notice that "birds of a feather flock together" and "when you lie down with Chicago gangsters, you'll get up with indictments."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilt_by_association

45 posted on 12/16/2008 2:07:10 PM PST by Mamzelle (Boycott Peggy Swoonin')
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To: Sgt_Schultze
Don’t forget in 2006 how many equated Mark Foley with the Republican party.

And the dirtbag media spent weeks painting Ken Lay w/President Bush and all pubbies with Jack Abramoff.

According to these clowns there is no BoB/Blago, or Bawney Fwank/Fannie Mae connection.

Come next month, the sewage rats will have it all. God help us.

46 posted on 12/16/2008 4:04:04 PM PST by Jacquerie (Islam is a barbaric political system in religious drag.)
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To: lewisglad

This from the trashpress that called out a “culture of corruption” because of two homosexual scandals in the GOP in 2006.

STUFF IT!


47 posted on 12/16/2008 5:26:10 PM PST by weegee (Sec. of State Clinton. What kind of change is it to keep the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton Oligarchy?)
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To: sickoflibs

There is no election of consequence for 2 years. There is no blowback.


48 posted on 12/16/2008 5:27:43 PM PST by weegee (Sec. of State Clinton. What kind of change is it to keep the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton Oligarchy?)
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To: lewisglad

All at once they are ever so sensitive about truth. Truth, that strange world where they seldom venture preferring instead “fake but accurate” “Palin didn’t know Africa was a continent”, “Bush bought his way into (or out of) the National Guard”, ah yes, I remember all their truths. And now they squeal like the proverbial pig when something is even hinted about their guy...even though it has the “ring of truth” to it! How does that feel little libs? If I were to let myself I could start to enjoy this.


49 posted on 12/16/2008 5:39:20 PM PST by pepperdog (The world has gone crazy.)
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To: weegee

That is true.


50 posted on 12/16/2008 5:45:39 PM PST by sickoflibs (GWB : "Give me a 700B blank check to save the UAW until Obama takes office")
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To: lewisglad

I don’t understand why people think we should give Obama a break. He Only wants to tax and spend us back to the middle ages and cut off 60% of our energy supplies. I would think someone calling for mass lemming suicide would deserve some opposition.


51 posted on 12/16/2008 5:52:41 PM PST by FastCoyote (I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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To: Arrowhead1952
Exactly. My brother noticed that immediately and came to the same conclusion.

Even though I understand how they operate it still amazes me that they are attempting to attach Blago to the Republican Party, so R's are further damaged and dems come out smelling like a rose.

52 posted on 12/16/2008 6:31:36 PM PST by TAdams8591 (Still waiting........ Finny!)
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To: Arrowhead1952
"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."

Last week I saw two NYT columnists discussing the Blago affair, and the two articles between them comprised about 40 paragraphs. The word "Democrat" did not appear in either story. It is impossible - impossible - to imagine a story about a corrupt Republican without the word "Republican" being mentioned two or three times, and with the implication that the corruption is not an isolated incident but is somehow characteristic of the entire party.
53 posted on 12/16/2008 7:26:04 PM PST by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: Steve_Seattle; TAdams8591
Even though I understand how they operate it still amazes me that they are attempting to attach Blago to the Republican Party, so R's are further damaged and dems come out smelling like a rose.

Last week I saw two NYT columnists discussing the Blago affair, and the two articles between them comprised about 40 paragraphs. The word "Democrat" did not appear in either story.

Those observations are made by FReepers on FR on a daily basis, yet many people say the media is not biased. There are even some people - DUmmies - who say the media favors Republicans. No wonder we call them DUmmies.

I sent the link of the B [end] O [ver] voters that was on FR a couple of weeks ago to a bleeding heart liberal who thought Republicans were still in charge of congress. I told her anyone who didn't know that the (d's) have been in charge since Jan 2007 should have been kicked out of the voting booth. She admitted that voter education was in a sad state. She admitted that she would have failed the test too.

I asked her if she felt better knowing that she had no idea which party was in control, and she basically told me off and left in a huffy fit. She watches the communist news network, so her brain is full of trash.

54 posted on 12/17/2008 4:48:01 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (The main stream media lied - America died.)
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To: Arrowhead1952

Years ago, just before Bill Clinton got into office, I attended a conservative event in DC. One of the series of discussions was about the media bias for Democrats and against Republicans. Tim Russert and Sam Donaldson (both were very nice, warm, friendly and funny the entire talk) were two of the primary people on the panel and not surprisingly, BOTH repeatedly denied the bias, despite the fact that conservatives in the audience offered them many examples. The media bias is obvious and they KNOW it, yet they lie and deny it with a straight/and or smiling face.


55 posted on 12/17/2008 8:47:52 AM PST by TAdams8591 (Still waiting........ Finny!)
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