Democrat October Surprises - an archive thread

Freeper resourcefulness | 10/02/03 | I. Will Vanquishcarville

[Diddle E. Squat]

The Democrats have a long and sordid history of launching last-minute cheap shot 'October Surprises' right before elections. I'm hoping that we can use this thread to develop a comprehensive list of all of their 'October Surprises', so that we can not only confront them with it each time they try this garbage, but more importantly remind and educate the general public about how this is an unscrupulous cornerstone of Democrat election strategy. Most people have no idea how much of a pattern there is of this.

Of course we have Arnold, and we remember the Bush DWI. Wasn't that also on a Wed. night before the Tuesday election? I know there were others in CA races, and 'The seriousness of the charges' against the elder Bush, but I forget the exact issues and timelines. So here's hoping some freeper memories and ingenuity(corraborating links for reviewing the details would be excellent) will turn this thread into a valuable resource, from which we can then distill a succinct 'reminder' list.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Sister of Texas dragging death victim attacks Bush - She says GOP nominee ignored pleas of family - October 23, 2000 BY MARY OWEN FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER ***The sister of James Byrd Jr., a black man who was dragged to death by three white supremacists in Texas, was in Highland Park on Sunday urging blacks to vote against Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush because of his reluctance to support hate-crime legislation.

"He treated my brother's daughter cold and heartlessly when she asked him to pass laws against hate crimes," Louvon Harris said to a small group of NAACP members at the New Grace Baptist Church.***

[XHogPilot]

1994 California US Senate race against Diane Fienstein: Republican Michael Huffington (divorced spouse of Ariana H.) was defeated by 2% when a last minute "illegal-alien nanny" scandal erupted.

references: http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:L3IV-vbT2wgJ:www.lcrga.com/archive/98120902.shtml+%22Michael+Huffington%22+scandal&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

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[XHogPilot]

Republican Matt Fong upset loss running in the Calif 1998 Senate race against Barbara Boxer:

over a $50,000 donation he gave to the Traditional Values Coalition, an ultra-conservative religious group opposed to abortion, gay rights, sex education and the teaching of evolution in public schools. The contribution, which came from money left over from Fong's 1994 treasurer's race, was used only for a poll in an initiative drive that would have banned same-sex marriages in California, Fong said. The controversy over the religious right group dented his carefully sculpted image as a moderate alternative to Boxer.

source: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/election98/wildermuth_10-28.html

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/993482/posts
Shoe-Drop Day Tomorrow? (Mickey Kaus predicts LA Times Smear Hours Before story posted)
Kaus Files ^ | 10-1-03 | Mickey Kaus


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/993337/posts
Media Assassination: The Mark? Rush Limbaugh
Drudge Report ^ | 01 OCT 03 | dcbryan1
...somehow, I think this and the ongoing "Arnold groped me" smear aren't going to get any traction... Americans are just jaded, innured to all this, after Clinton and Moanica.


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/993509/posts
U.S. Communists to support Dems. -- 'united front' in No. 1 priority of beating Bush
WND ^ | Oct. 2, 2003 | JOSEPH FARAH

[RippleFire]

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[lafroste]

There's the famous "Bush Sr. flies an SR-71 to Paris to make sure that the Iranian hostages aren't released until after the (1980 Presidential) election", that surfaced, I believe a week or two before the 1988 Pres. election. If memory serves me right, that was the one that coined the phrase "October Surprise".

[nicollo]

Great thread.

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[WilliamofCarmichael]

Re: the orignin of "October surprise" and more

Limbaugh was perhaps the first to point out that "the appearance of impropriety" has become all the left claims is needed to support their mainstream's frenzy of accusations of wrong doing and demands for investigations -- plus supporting polls once the apolitical public has been conditioned.

Wild claims were made that Reagan and Bush had made a deal with Iran that delayed the release of the hostages until after the 1980 election, "the October surprise." There was the usual supporting mainstream press frenzy as the stories recycled in 1991. Evidence? None.

Then Speaker of the House Tom Foley said that Congress needed to investigate precisely because there wasn't any evidence to substantiate the allegation.

There was however "the appearance of impropriety." So how do you discourse with these Stalinist-like campaigns of lies? Answer, you cannot.

There is no peaceful solution. It is the left's decision to have it settled by violence. They will not change and we cannot continue as a Nation divided in this manner.

They destroyed one wartime administration a generation ago. They are out to destroy another wartime administration and this war is for all the marbles. Their war against America is just as important for us to win as the bigger war defending against radical Islam.

[T. Jefferson]

Remember the Haitian boat incident in Miami last year before the Jeb election? Probably too tinfoilish to directly tie it to the DNC, but food for thought, and more reason to get ticked off and fight the Dems.

They had lines of cars waiting for them to be picked up when they left the water. It was blatantly organized.

[jmstein7]

No. The DWI was the FRIDAY before the election.

[Right Wing Professor]

HOW CAN WE HELP TO STOP THIS????????

Write a letter to your local newspaper make the point it's 'same old same old'. It will stop happening when people start to wise up about how they're being manipulated.

[PLOM...NOT!]

My thoughts exactly. But I would come up with some outrageous claims that MAY be made and end with...see I told you so.

[TennTuxedo]

The Democrats "October Surprise" would make Michael Corleone envious. The Rats have put a hit on Preisdent bush and his White House with the bogus "leak" charges. The Rats have aimed at Schwarzenegger with the bogus "child groping charges". The Rats have taken an opportunity to grand stand with taking opposition to comments made by Rush Limbaugh on ESPN.The finale is the Rats breaking news that Rush is being investigated for a drug addiction. This seesm straight out of the "Godfather". This series of bogus outings is in effect, the Democrats "hits" on high profile conservative icons right before an election and right at the beginning of a presidential campaign.

Is this series of "hits" on power the "kick start" to a certain president-wannabe's presidential campaign? She needed Bush's numbers to be down and she needed the GOP's voice of reason muzzled before she could enter the race so to minimize vocal opposition.

[justa-hairyape]

She needed Bush's numbers to be down and she needed the GOP's voice of reason muzzled before she could enter the race so to minimize vocal opposition.

Its either that or Al Queda has taken over our media.

[Lazamataz]

Not a bad idea!

I find it works on FR, to assemble a list of usual responses used by disruptors and trolls. Perhaps it could work IRL.

[capitan_refugio]

That was dumbocrap Bob Mulholland's smear of Republican Bruce Herschensohn.

[Shaka]

I think Ma Richards pulled some bullschitt before Dubya's first Guber run... Democrats are making a habit out of it.