GOP election tactic: Scare voters with Pelosi - Party chairman says she would 'weaken America'

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 9/16/6 | Edward Epstein

[ladyinred]

Ah, Nancy is SCARY! It needn't be a tactic, it is just the truth. Californian's know this trust me!

[norge]

Works for me.

[soloNYer]

Umm, isn't she actually scary? How is this a "tactic?"

Interesting how publicizing what Dems and liberals like Pelosi actually say is attacked, yet making up allegations and trying to convince people that Republicans have some secret agenda to start wars for oil and are racist is pretty much ignored.

[basil]

But analysts, pointing toward the political problems President Bush has created for his party, question whether the tactic will work.

Works for me!

[Phlap]

Its not a scare tactic. Its a warning.

Be afraid! Be very afraid!

[mugs99]

ROFL!
But she is entertaining!

[Lancey Howard]

....attacks on Pelosi could be effective, said William Blomquist, a political scientist at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. (snip) He said that for such voters "San Francisco liberal'' is a powerful code. "It carries all kinds of connotations. It means a nonreligious, pro-gay, weak on defense, tree-hugging flake of some sort.''

Yeah, that pretty much nails it.

By the way, notice the difference between Republican campaign tactics and Democrat tactics? In the past, the rats have created boogeymen by smearing people like Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay, whereas the Republicans only need to present the real Nancy Pelosi.

Personally, I will never forget the TV ads where the rats took a Gingrich soundbite about Medicare totally out of context in order to scare senior citizens. It was almost as bad as the "black churches will burn" ads the rats ran in St. Louis, or the "lynch" ads they ran in Texas and elsewhere.

[1035rep]

It's not a scare tactic, it's pointing out the obvious. Liberals cannot be trusted with our security (or anything else)

[185JHP]

Provoked to use one, the Republicans will find a Hammer who will work with some relatively decent Democrats on important stuff...

[samtheman]

I am astounded that this election is in doubt. How stupid have the American people become, that Pelosi is close to attaining such power in our nation? How unbelievably stupid?

[Brimack34]

What is good for the Goose... They did it to Newt why not return the favor.

[Bernard]

and that idiot wench scares the doo-doo out of me if she were third in line to the Presidency.

Change the wording a little bit and that becomes the bumper sticker for the Republicans: "Should this be the first woman President? She's next in line..."

[Joe Boucher]

A f-ing San Francisco lib running things in Congress? And yes that should scare the hell out of any moral sane American

[Alia]

HO-HO!! lol. From Article: "As the republicans try to prevent Pelosi and Dems their win"?ROFLMAO!

Oh No! The brutish Republicans are oppressing us... RUN AWAY!!!

[MNJohnnie]

So now telling the truth about a Demo is a "Scare tactic"?

How about the Leftist acctually address the point raised instead of desperately trying to divert attention from the facts by hurling phony accusations?

Funny how Junk Journalists will alway ask critical questions of Republicans but NEVER of any Democrat Politican.

If it were the other way around, every Junk Journalist in the world would be screaming in her face "Critics say you are bad for American because...."