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The Politics of Personal Destruction
Townhall.com ^ | September 7, 2008 | Ken Connor

Posted on 09/07/2008 4:54:42 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: DB

zer0bama’s co-author of one of his “two autobiographies before the age of 50”

said that Barry was the master of nasty attacks behind the scenes while publicly decrying those attacks.


21 posted on 09/07/2008 5:29:21 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: ought-six

“i can say without reservation that i hate the left.”

i would say the same but it seems that hate is too tame a word to describe extreme revulsion, disgust and abhorrence; not even those words are adequate. think of what the left has done in the last century and try to think of the words that would describe indescribable acts of cruelty and treachery; it’s just an impossible task for language to adequately describe cosmic foulness.

IMHO


22 posted on 09/07/2008 5:30:29 AM PDT by ripley
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To: UltraKonservativen

They are right to be fearful.

She represents the dismantling of their power base.

It’s in her record, it’s in her attitude, it’s in her character.


23 posted on 09/07/2008 5:30:59 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: nevs911

Bill Clinton did not get what he deserved.


24 posted on 09/07/2008 5:31:24 AM PDT by SouthWall (I'm concerned about McCain. I'm scared of Obama. 6/4/08)
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To: Popman

I thought so too. I wasn’t able to pay close attention when this all started after McCain announced Palin as his choice. After the outrageous claims about the baby began, the mainstream media said Palin was at fault for bringing this on her daughter by accepting the offer of VP - when it was the left that started the rumor in the first place deliberately targeting her daughter!


25 posted on 09/07/2008 5:31:41 AM PDT by tropical
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To: ripley
just an impossible task for language to adequately describe cosmic foulness

mortal language cannot describe immortal evil.

but it makes perfect sense, as does all the policies of the left, when viewed in the eternal Good v Evil, Yahweh V Satan battle.

26 posted on 09/07/2008 5:32:53 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: nevs911
What the hell are you talking about? Ass.

You don't know what I'm talking about, and so I'm the ass?

Anyone on Free Republic during the Clinton years will have seen it half a dozen times at least, and then there's this post from December 2007 here on FR.

Or March 8, 2003 - and nobody posting on the thread batted an eye.

27 posted on 09/07/2008 5:33:53 AM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: Kaslin
Thankfully, the one adult in all of this has been Senator Obama.

Yeah, right. He left the dirty work to others. His own campaign web site had the crap on it. There is no indication that he fired the webmaster. No, Barry is playing puppet master, getting puppets to do the dirty work while shedding crocodile tears over the slime.

28 posted on 09/07/2008 5:34:50 AM PDT by RochesterFan
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To: SouthWall

None of us “get what we deserve” due to the mercy of God.

Take heart in “eternal judgement”, though.


29 posted on 09/07/2008 5:35:19 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Rsgood Dsbad
I assume you can go out into the conservative blogosphere and find personal attacks on liberals but you won’t find anything that remotely approaches the Palin family smears, the Clarence Thomas smears, the smears on several Reagan cabinet members, etc.

I agree. If a Democratic Sarah Palin had emerged, I think that conservatives would actually be saddened and would say so, in no uncertain terms. It would be a mournful recitation, not an angry, vindictive one. It all goes to the central fact of conservatism (at least, the Christian kind): we are all on a journey and we definitely make mistakes along the way. It is not that we err, but what we do when we have erred, that makes all the difference. We would lament a liberl Sarah's errors and misjudgment, point out her logical and philosophical flaws and generally try to keep the rhetorical bridge unburnt.

After all, anyone who comes to their senses might actually be MORE effective for good than one who never strayed in the first place. To err is to have one's heart and mind rubbed in the consequences and have the opportunity to connect the proper dots for those who never had to cope that way.

30 posted on 09/07/2008 5:36:07 AM PDT by BelegStrongbow (what part of 'mias gunaikos andra' do Episcopalians not understand?)
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To: ripley

“i would say the same but it seems that hate is too tame a word to describe extreme revulsion, disgust and abhorrence; not even those words are adequate. think of what the left has done in the last century and try to think of the words that would describe indescribable acts of cruelty and treachery; it’s just an impossible task for language to adequately describe cosmic foulness.”

Sometimes words are inadequate and fail. This may be one of those times. I agree with your sentiment.


31 posted on 09/07/2008 5:38:33 AM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Kaslin

So how is Obe’s Community Organizing going since he has to send HIS kids to a snooty, expensive, private school?


32 posted on 09/07/2008 5:40:57 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Palin for President! (PUMA))
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To: MrB
how is that “politics of personal destruction” on the scale that we’ve seen waged against Palin?

So the issue is not the process, but the scale of that process? The participation of national media in that process? At least we should be clear here about what we're finding objectionable.

I recall that MSNBC canned David Shuster for saying that Chelsea was "pimped out" by Hillary during the senate campaign, and that was merely a tasteless choice of words, not a literal reference to sexual prostitution. But again, here on FR, it was repeated and reinforced, along with stories about Chelsea's "gay bar pub crawl."

I suppose if the major networks canned everyone who sad vicious and nasty things about Palin and her family, though, they'd have to shut down.

33 posted on 09/07/2008 5:43:06 AM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: Kaslin
Obama is reverting to the same tactic he used in the primaries.

During the first months of his campaign, he was ‘above’ the fray, above race.

He started falling behind Clinton. He found the race card. He used the race card throughout the remaining months, against Clinton and even some at GOP nominee McCain.

Yesterday, Team Obama found the race card again and started using it against Palin. Someone raised an allegation that Palin referred to Obama as ‘Sambo’ in a restaurant some months ago.

Look for the race card to be used more and more. After all, that is about the only weapon Obama has in his arsenal.

34 posted on 09/07/2008 5:44:25 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: RochesterFan

Yeah right. He left the dirty work to others...etc...
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
When L Flint offered a million bucks to anyone who could get ANY dirt on a sitting ‘R’ during one of WJC’s tribulations, Clinton sat there with that $hit Eatin Grin and said—I have no control over what other people do—.
Which, in essence, is true but he didn’t even have the wherewithall to denounce the move (with the same grin).


35 posted on 09/07/2008 5:45:56 AM PDT by xrmusn ( True gun control is hitting what you aim at.)
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36 posted on 09/07/2008 5:46:36 AM PDT by petercooper (IQ tests for all voters!)
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To: mvpel
The Chelsea/Web morph started out as a joke and because they both had a big lower lip a lot of people believed it. In her early pictures from the campaign Chelsea couldn't possibly look more like Bill Clinton, hair, coloring, close set eyes, bulbous nose but it was fun insulting hillary with the idea that she slept with Web Hubble.
37 posted on 09/07/2008 5:52:36 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Kaslin
Many of the folks now supporting Governor Palin's bid for Vice President would be casting similar aspersions upon her if she were Senator Obama's running mate.

Well, I suppose one or two percent might still fit the difinition of "many."

38 posted on 09/07/2008 6:02:39 AM PDT by stevem
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To: engrpat

I hope you sent a well worded KMA to your “Bro” Bob for his unsolicited screed.


39 posted on 09/07/2008 6:04:37 AM PDT by tbpiper (Obama/Biden: Instead of Ebony and Ivory, we have Arrogance and Insolence.)
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To: nevs911
Honestly, I can’t think of any dems who didn’t get what they deserved

You're kidding, right? I can think of many.

Ted Kennedy, Chappaquiddick. Bill Clinton, woman abuser and perjurer. Charles Schumer, Indymac bank. Gerry Studds, pedophile. William Jefferson, money in freezer. Ronnie Earle, prosecuting DeLay. Mike Nifong, Duke University (should be in jail).

And these are the ones just off the top of my head!

40 posted on 09/07/2008 6:04:39 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus Reagan (Fight Socialism! Vote McCain '08!)
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