February 22, 2005
"The oldies are not goodies!"
Posted by pete at February 22, 2005 11:08 AMWhat with their hard candy, long-winded anecdotes, and love of sodomites:
We're already hearing that Rove has tapped Bill Bennett to take up his anti-AARP slime crusade. And another TPM Reader, JW, has just drawn our attention to a USANext ad (second down on the right hand column) currently running on the American Spectator website.
(USANext, you'll remember from this morning's Times, is the GOP seniors astroturf group now tasked with roughing up AARP for opposing Social Security phase-out.)
The ad in question:
So the AARP, which actually supported Bush's prescription drug plan, has the temerity to voice its displeasure with proposed Social Security cuts, causing Rove to release the spurious affiliation hounds.
Marshall has links to other ads waiting in the wings: This one, which places "AARP" in a rogues' gallery that includes Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy, and this one, a poll that asks which is more liberal, the AARP, ACLU, NAACP, or NARAL? I assume the follow-up question is, "When - if ever - do you think those retired, pinko, gangbanging baby murderers stopped beating their wives?"
I'd assume this kind of sleazery would backfire on Rove and company at some point...except it hasn't yet. As with the Swift Boat Veterans, these guys have proven they can make whatever baseless and unsubstantiated claims they wish and significant numbers of people out there will believe them. I'd like to think this is going to come back to bite Bush on the ass, but precedent isn't exactly in my favor. We'll see what happens if these banners ever show up places that aren't Administration apologists like the Spectator web site.
What with their hard candy, long-winded anecdotes, and love of sodomites
~snicker
~~snort
~~~office innapropriate laughter
Thanks, I needed that. Now to explain to my coworkers just what made me laugh out loud.
Seriously, has there ever been a more contemptible, more despicable, more evil group of people in power anywhere in North American history?
Seriously? There's been a lot of villany on this continent.
I lost a lot of respect for John Adams following the Alien and Sedition Acts, and the Grant administration kept the Reagan administration from being the most corrupt. Cortez was a nasty piece of work in Mexico. The Duvaliers of Haiti were pretty nasty. Jackson was responsible for The Trail of Tears.
Thanks for putting things in perspective.
"If we set the hurdle low enough, even W can get over it."
Devil Woman, I consider the current regime to be philosophically amoral rather than immoral. They don't care if they commit immoral acts as long as it makes a profit, but they don't choose immorality unless it's absolutely convenient.
Fair point on Jackson -- and I'd add anyone in office during the Jim Crow south as well.
But turning on grandparents for the simple "crime" of opposing this president's attempt to dismantle social security -- and ridiculously attempting to connect that opposition to wholly unrelated and inflamatory positions -- that's about as disingenuous and reprehensible as anything seen in a generation. I'd have to go back to the Nixon to find anything close.
Good thing they spelled it correctly...
a "Conservative Flash Pole" would probably not appeal to the same demographic as a "Conservative Flash Poll." Or maybe it would.
You people obviously aren't familiar with LDS dirty tactics. These are people who believe anthting they say or do to wound, discredit or destroy the enemy is acceptable because they're doing it for godly reasons. Yeah, I know, shades of Bin Laden. You may laugh at this assertion but let me remind you that the pudgy little weasel, Rove, is a product of the LDS culture. IMO, Rove makes McCarthy look like a piker!
Everytime it looks like Rove has reached a new low, he grabs another shovel. Doesn't this have to end at some point?