Republican Noise Machine: Ed Lynch Just Makin' Stuff Up

"Democrats tried to defeat most other Republicans; they worked to savage Allen. Every part of the Democratic coalition -- the mainstream media, labor, the antiwar left, and both Bill and Hillary Clinton descended on Virginia to defeat Allen.  Moreover, they did so using the most vile campaign tactics, making Allen's race almost a microcosm of Democratic dirty tricks."

Really?  Read on. 

The Democrats, by their actions, have declared Allen to be the front runner in 2008 even if the Republicans have not yet done so.

It was a year in which some Democratic bloggers openly hoped for another terrorist attack so that Bush could be blamed and a Democratic majority assured.

The last quote is the most reprehensible form of character assassination, smearing those legitimately criticizing US policy and the leaders who have brought us to this point.  To claim that any American wishes for us to be atacked is both outrageous and absurd.  Additionally, in making his claim for a George Allen presidency, and assailing Democrats for allegedly mistreating Allen, Lynch, launches himself into outer space.  And they call us moonbats! 
GOP leaders can't help themselves.  They blame the messenger, but it is they who've hijacked our country by deception, dirty tricks, name-calling, ham-handed politics, cronyism.  Now Dems are somehow to blame for poor George Allen's fate?

It defies logic that Lynch and others: 1) Still perceive the public behind the GOP's rotten agenda; 2) spin that it's the Dems who played dirty; and 3)still think that George Allen is presidential material. 

Let's take a look at Lynch's claims.  First, it's ludicrous to suggest that the public is behind the GOP agenda.  His logic suggests that because the margin by which Webb won was small, had the race gone the other way, the nation would have given a "mandate" to the GOP.  The only trouble with this is that if you looked at the whole country the national spread was 55% to 43% for the Democrats --where's the potential GOP  mandate in that? 

Second, The same party whose candidate hired Chris (Swift Boat) Cevita, Dick (Karl Rove protege) Wadhams, Mary (former Dick Cheney Chief of Staff) Matalin, et al. for his campaign staff is not in a position to denouce tactics by the Dems.  George Allen "shot himself in the foot," over and over.  But somehow the spinmeisters blame Democrats that Allen had a thin record of real accomplishment; a tendency to spit on people, use racial slurs, and tried to humiliate to gain one-upsmanship.

However, the very real GOP dirty tricks included, but were not limited to: 1) Calling legally registered African American voters and telling them they are not registered and will be arested if they try to vote;  2)Posing as workers at the registrar's office and lying that the voter's polling place had changed;  3) Robo-callling voters and telling them they don't have to vote, then sending a mailer claiming it was the Dems who
  were trying to get voters to stay home; 4) and calling voters in the middle of the night and claiming to be calling for James Webb.  And there's the matter of Mr. fish-rots-from-the-head-down, Ed Gillespie.  Now Gillespie is the new Virginia GOP Chair.  I can't wait to see what garbage he'll pull out of the landfill.  After either the Allen forces or someone in the Republican Party, tried to gain the election illegally (it's a crime to pull several of those dirty tricks), they say Democrats savaged Allen? 

Third, they may think we are dumb enough to think Allen is a future leader, but we are not. Allen is so unleader-like, so appallingly bigotted, so winkingly and smikingly disengenuous, so devoid of a meaningful record in the Senate that he stole Dick Durbin's amendment to aid brain-injured American Iraqi War vets, calling the amendment his own; and "sponsored" a bill to "help" black farmers after the filing deadline had past.  Clearly the bigot, Allen is poorly equipped to represent all Virginians and all Americans.

Allen's record as governor shows that his imagination and leadership were limited to the simplistic trio: tax cuts for the well-heeled, prisons-for-profit, and hostility to education.  In combination with Gilmore's fiscal follies, Allen's tenure hammered our bond rating.  But, Lynch thinks voters should give Allen a chance to ruin both the the state's and the nation's economy, just like GW Bush did in Texas and nationwide. There are too many policy issues suggesting why Allen would be the last person for president among all the currently- mentioned candidates. 

We stick overwhelmingly to public figures'records.  We can be tough on them.  But the situation requires us to be because they've gotten away with so much.  Meanwhile Lynch and the rest of the Republican noise machine keep on churning. 

The GOP spinners and erstwhile name-callers have made a cottage industry of controlling the frame, dominating the daily media talking points,  name-calling of their Democratic counterparts (including we who blog for Dems; and questioning our sanity, intelligence, logic, patriotism,  morals, and just about everything else.  Because we don't knuckle under to their bully fiefdom, they create the "Freak Show" (creating bizarre sideshows to distract); trash us personally in the blogosphere; and try destroy people for their views.  They hope their attacks cause us to dummy up.  They are wrong. 

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