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Desperate Republicans Try Sex

They've got to know they're in trouble when they're scraping the bottom of barrel this hard to come up with muck to throw at Democrats. Trying to tip the scales in a tight New York House race, the Republican National Committee has been running an ad declaring that the Democratic candidate called a phone-sex line and left taxpayers with the bill. Strictly speaking, it's true: there was a phone call placed from the hotel room of candidate Michael Arcuri, a county district attorney, to a 1-800 fantasy line. Billing records show it lasted all of one minute, cost $1.25 - and was followed immediately by a call to the state Department of Criminal Justice Services, which has nearly the identical number. It was so obviously a misdial that Arcuri is threatening a libel suit, and seven television stations have refused to run the ad.

But that's minor-league mud-slinging compared to the efforts of several GOP candidates to link their opponents to pedophilia! Yep, you read that right: since Nancy Pelosi marched in a gay pride parade that included the icky North American Man/Boy Love Association, and California candidate Charlie Brown (no kidding) supports the ACLU who sometime, somewhere filed a suit on behalf of the same NAMBLA, they are ipso facto advocates of sodomizing teenage boys. I could have sworn that was some other politician...

Comments

Another one of those false associations. It usually amounts to associating all groups who disagree with one with the most violent, flamboyant, or obnoxious. Typical tactic of chronic abusers.

Posted by: JT Barrie on 10/23/06 at 4:01 PM

And the Catholic church repubs just continue their use of lies and vicious politics, but what does the catholic church, my church, get out of all these venemous and vicious tactics. Must be similar to the Catholic church alignment with the nazi party before and during WWII, which clearly added much legitimacy to the nazi party in 1933 and subsequently covered them to some extent during the holocaust. But what did/does the church gain from all this evil.

Posted by: bob t on 10/24/06 at 10:38 AM