Don't Condemn Palin's Lies, Condemn Rove's Dirty Tricks

Note to Team Obama: Forget the Change mantra. Forget the anti-Bush mantra. For heaven sake's, forget metaphors. (No longer part of the curriculum in our schools, except about sports.) Now that Rove has picked Palin to run the show, we're playing on quicksand. We're playing on thin ice. This is now a campaign about Republicans dirty tricks and not much else. But how to fight that?

If Obama hammers on the idea of dirty tricks, he can avoid saying or not saying that McCain and Palin are liars. He needs a series of hard-hitting ads from now until election day about the dirty tricks engineered by Karl Rove. Everyone understands that. And no one thinks Rove is a prince. Ads that say: "Karl Rove used to be called 'Bush's Brain,' because he told him what to say and do and how to convince you there were WMDs in Iraq, which there were not. Now he's John McCain's brain. But he's still up to the same old dirty tricks. In fact, that's all his campaign is up to these days. Are you going to be fooled again?"

If you don't think the Obama campaign needs this - and more - take a look at the new "Palin Truth Squad" whose members spring to action whenever Obama or Biden opens his mouth. Looks like Rove's fingerprints all over it.

Here's the list that appears on Mudflats href="http://www.mudflats.wordpress.com">www.mudflats.wordpress.com):

National Members Of The Palin Truth Squad:
· Former Governor Jane Swift (R-MA)
· Governor Linda Lingle (R-HI)
· Lt. Governor Sean Parnell, (R-AK)
· Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN)
· Congressman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
· Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
· Congresswoman Thelma Drake (R-VA)
· Congresswoman Mary Fallin (R-OK)
· Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC)
· Congresswoman Kay Granger (R-TX)
· Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA)
· Congresswoman Candice Miller (R-MI)
· Congresswoman Sue Myrick (R-FL)
· Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)
· Congresswoman Heather Wilson (R-NM)
· Jo Ann Davidson, RNC Co-Chair
· Rosario Marin, Former U.S. Treasurer
· Meg Stapleton, Former Aide To Governor Palin
· Kristan Cole, Lifelong Friend Of Governor Palin

State Members Of The Palin Truth Squad:
· Former Lt. Governor Jane Norton (CO)
· State Representative Amy Stephens (CO)
· State Board of Education Member Peggy Littleton (CO)
· State Representative Ellyn Bogdanoff (FL)
· County Commissioner Mildred Fernandez (FL)
· Former Iowa Senate President And Former U.S. Ambassador To The Eastern Caribbean, Mary Kramer (IA)
· State Representative Jackie Walorski (IN)
· State Representative Laura Brod (MN)
· Former GOP State Party Chairwoman And Former State Rep. Barb Sykora (MN)
· Jayne Millerick, Former NH GOP Chair (NH)
· State Senator Jennifer Beck, Honorary Co-Chair NJ Women For McCain-Palin (NJ)
· Assemblywoman Alison Littell McHose, Honorary Vice Chair NJ Women For McCain-Palin (NJ)
· Bergen County Clerk Kathe Donovan, Honorary Co-Chair NJ Women For McCain-Palin (NJ)
· DA Dona Ana County Susana Martinez (NM)
· Former Lt. Gov. Lorraine Bono-Hunt (NV)
· State Senator Barbara Cegavske (NV)
· State Assemblywoman Heidi Gansert (NV)
· Sue Lowden, Nevada GOP Chair (NV)
Kay Ayres, OH GOP Vice Chair (OH)
· Betty Montgomery, Ohio Women For McCain-Palin Chair (OH)
· Mary Taylor, Ohio Auditor Of State (OH)
· Margie Hughes, Clackamas County Chair Of Women For McCain-Palin (OR)
· Linda Neace, West Linn Small Business Owner For McCain-Palin (OR)
· Deanna Smith, Women For McCain-Palin Chairwoman (OR)
· Renee Amoore, PA GOP Deputy Chair (PA)
· Joyce Haas, PA GOP Vice Chair (PA)
· State Senator Lisa Baker (PA)
· Diana Irey, Washington County Commissioner (PA)
· Christine Toretti, RNC National Committeewoman and McCain-Palin Pennsylvania Co-Chair (PA)
· Kim Ward, Westmoreland County Commissioner and McCain-Palin Pennsylvania Regional Chair (PA)
· Former First Lady Susan Allen (VA)
· Lori Ann Miller, Young Republican Federation Of VA Chairman (VA)
· Former Lt. Gov. Margaret Farrow (WI)
· Peggy Oban Boze, McCain-Palin Chairwomen For King County (WA)
· Susan McCaw, Former Ambassador To Austria (WA)
· Della Newman, Former Ambassador To New Zealand (WA)

Comments

[barbiesnow]

As a Tennessean, I know the popularity of the Republican party machine agent Marcia Blackburn, her articles are already appearing in our newspapers. There is definetly a culture war going on in the south, and it isn't pretty. All of the code words are being used, and spread by the media. It seems almost an insurmountable task in my state, since the mindset is so entrenched. However, there are over 35% percent of us who haven't been brainwashed by their message which plays on the aforementioned culture wars..We do what we can with our letters to the editor and many students are trying to GOTV. Tough job..thanks for printing the list. All I can do is continue to try to reverse the negativity by telling the truth.

[matt297]

Remember when McCain angrily shouted at his wife in front of his friends and called her a "c***"? Well, here's McCain shoving a little old war widow in a wheelchair:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/51660.html

Why, oh why, hasn't this story broken yet? This directly attacks McCain's supposed strength, namely, his honor and his character. And it has the virtue of actually being true!

Why all the reticence to bring up damaging information that's true? Why don't they do to McCain what Biden says you ought to do to any lying bully---bloody his nose!

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Four years later, at [a POW/MIA] group's Washington conference, about 25 members went to a Senate office building, hoping to meet with McCain. As they stood in the hall, McCain and an aide walked by.

Six people present have written statements describing what they saw. According to the accounts, McCain waved his hand to shoo away Jeannette Jenkins, whose cousin was last seen in South Vietnam in 1970, causing her to hit a wall.

As McCain continued walking, Jane Duke Gaylor, the mother of another missing serviceman, approached the senator. Gaylor, in a wheelchair equipped with portable oxygen, stretched her arms toward McCain.

"McCain stopped, glared at her, raised his left arm ready to strike her, composed himself and pushed the wheelchair away from him," according to Eleanor Apodaca, the sister of an Air Force captain missing since 1967.

McCain's staff wouldn't respond to requests for comment about specific incidents.