Posted by
Steve on Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:34:06 PM
As the campaign season heats up, dirty tricks are on the agenda. They are something everyone says they hate, yet dirty tricks work. They work because they are gotcha politics. The latest dirty trick was pulled on Representative Mark Foley. He was made to resign by a Democrat dirty trick. In a headline on the Drudge Report, it was reported that the instant messages Rep. Foley sent were to an 18 year-old ex-page. not a 16 year-old ex-page. That makes a world of difference in what happened. Sending suggestive instant messages to an 18 year old is disgusting. Sending suggestive instant messages to a 16 year-old is illegal.
It was widely reported in the Gotcha News that the instant messages were sent to a 16 year-old. If this latest revelation is accurate, it blows a big hole in the Democrat's arguments. Everyone agrees that sending the messages to a 16 year old is wrong. Sending the same messages to an 18 year old and you have something just disgusting. The Democrats need to do better fact checking before they put things out. They are being shot in the foot with regularity over their facts being wrong.
A Democrat candidate for congress in Minnesota put out the first campaign commercials on the Rep. Foley scandal. She got almost all of the facts wrong. Of course, Democrats believe that a lie is better than the truth. The Democrat party is overplaying this hand rapidly. They are starting to look like fools. It will not be long and they will be a laughing stock and things will get back to normal.
I do expect more Democrat dirty tricks in the next few weeks. The only way the Democrat party can win this election is for them to get Republican voters not to show up. They do this by making Republican voters disgusted and less likely to show up at the polls. They have to be careful that they do not overplay their hand and get Republican voters angry. They have the unfortunate, for them, habit of overplaying their hands. They cannot resist kicking a dog when it is down.
Rush Limbaugh believes that the elections in 2006 and 2008 are the Clinton's last chance to run the Democrat party. They currently run the machinery within the party. They tell everyone who will do what and who will bow to who. They are also running their dirty tricks group full time for this election. They need to keep Republican voters from voting in any way they that they can. They are even working on claiming that Republicans are cheating.