Mehlman: Democratic Party only offers fear

[sabra]

http://www.newsandsentinel.com/news/story/0818202005_new07_mehlman081805.asp

Mehlman: Democratic Party only offers fear

WHEELING - Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman told Republicans in Wheeling Wednesday that today's Democratic Party "isn't your grandfather's Democratic Party" of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the 1940s.

Democrats "used to tell people you have nothing to fear but fear itself," Mehlman said. "Now they have nothing to offer but fear itself."
Mehlman was the featured speaker at the Ohio County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner at Oglebay Park's Wilson Lodge.

His presence in West Virginia was thought by most political insiders to indicate the importance the RNC places on the state as the 2006 and 2008 elections near. Of special interest to Republicans is the race involving the re-election of long-time U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va. To defeat Byrd, state Republicans know money is needed. The most recent campaign finance reports show the West Virginia Republican Party is $202,000 in debt following last year's gubernatorial elections.

[acmejack]

1. Mehlman brings out the worst in me

I would just really like to slap the crap out of him.

[Turbineguy]

32. Oh good,

I thought I was having an unusual reaction.

[Dulcinea]

38. What a wanker.

Just seeing him on TV makes me want to spew. :puke:

[Vinca]

61. Ditto.

Last time I checked real fear came from REPUBLICAN bombs.

[katty]

80. hey Mehl, go drink yourself into a stooper-your statements mean

nothing.

[LimbaughSUX659]

86. He's almost, no he IS a paid liar

[JanusAscending]

90. KEN MEHLMAN ON HARDBALL TONIGHT

My poor little dog!!! I was in the kitchen tonight fixing my dogs supper, while listening to this idiot puppet telling the same old lies!!! Now understand, I live alone with no one to talk to but my dog (usually), but right in the middle of everything, I blew, and started swearing and yelling at the TV set. Boy I was on a rant, and I don't ususally use profanity, but sometimes there's just not any other words strong enough!! Well my poor dog thought I was yelling at him, and didn't know what the heck was going on. First he went in and barked at the TV like it was trying to harm me, then he came back in the kitchen, sat there with his head "cocked" (he's a Bichon Frise) lot's of personality. He looked at me very puzzled like "WHAT THE HELL DID I DO?" Then took off into his crate, and I had to coax him out to eat once I finally stopped "venting"!!! It was too funny after the fact tho'. I wish Chris Matthews had been there instead of Nora O'Donnell. Sometimes Chris is good, sometimes, not so good. I think he would have been tougher with him tho! I'm just sick of the whole bunch of 'em !!:grr:>me :wow: < the dog!!

[ngGale]

93. My dog barks at every Repub on Tee Vee ...

and that's the truth, I swear! Could be my attitude, I'm not sure but my dog knows a liar when he sees one. lol

[warrior1]

2. He's

insane.

[MaineDem]

3. Nothing could be further from the truth

Which party are the fear mongerers??? Sheesh...

[KoKo]

37. Again, they take their own fear mongering and project it onto us...this

is their only tactic. Always take what they do, their "terra, terra terra," their own crookedness and lies and then reflect it on their oponents ascribing their evilness to anyone who opposes them.

It's not working but they keep doing it to bolster their base because it's all they have left with the Poll numbers tanking so badly that they are in danger of even their base losing "faith," in their policies.

Sheesh...same old crap...

[rzemanfl]

4. Today's Republican Party isn't "your grandfather's party" either

(unless your Grandfather was a German). I hate that smarmy little faggot-in a non-homophobic way.

[Tesla]

7. My grandfather was a German.......Democrat Catholic!!!!

I would say NAZI!!! (are we allowed??)

[Burried News]

60. Sorry ADL says no - term 'Nazi' is proprietary.

[emulatorloo]

5. More projection from the GOP - accuse others of what you do

This is their modus operandi - wish people would catch on.

[krkaufman]

12. Precisely... it's their "backfire" method of protecting against attacks.

Accuse the other side of being purple-people-eaters, and your opponents will just sound repetitive when they expose your arrest for cannibalism whilst decked-out in a purple leotard.

[Burried News]

62. Backfire Mehlman

The missing link between 'projection' 'anal personality' and 'paranoia'
in one swell poop.

[annabanana]

68. HaHa.. Who smelt it dealt it!!

as my sillier teenager would assert..

[Catfight]

14. You're correct, projection is the Grand Ol' Projectors party now. nt

[grytpype]

26. You beat me to it.

They terrified America with stories of mushroom clouds and now they say Dems are fear mongers. They accuse us of what they do. That way when we truthfully say they are fear mongers, the charge doesn't stick.

Example: they accused Gore of trying to steal the 2000 election! Try getting your head around that!

[emulatorloo]

69. "Halliburton" Cheney said Kerry lacks convictions about right and wrong

here:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-08-11-cheney_x.htm

Bushbots in 2004 said that "Kerry will SAY ANYTHING to get elected" here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6267559/

(you got to follow the above link -- you will get a kick out of the whole sordid thing - Kerry: repugs want to privatize social security, bushbots "Kerry will say anything")

They just annoy the hell out of me. . .and I am so tiring of them being taken seriously.

[merwin]

29. I'd like him to actually cite examples

[wolvesslasher]

75. Allot of posts on this board are pretty negative

Nobody posts anything about good things that happen in Iraq or good things that religious people are doing. It's all just doom and gloom.
I don't agree with the war in Iraq either but that doesn't mean that the good things should be ignored. And I hate Bush too, but people on this board give him too much credit.People have been murdering each other since the dawn of time. It's not Bush's fault every time someone kills or
beats someone else up. Maybe if their wasn't such negative talk all the time he wouldn't have any examples. But I'm sure he wouldn't have any
trouble finding something to accuse you all of spreading hate(probably not fear). Terrorism is very real so there is nothing wrong with warning the public to be on guard. Bush already made the mistake of ignoring terrorists' threats and look what happened.And before I get accused of being a Troll, I hang in the center,so I am more open minded when it comes to these things.

[merwin]

78. Like it or not, 'doom and gloom' is the reality in Iraq.

Everything we are bitching about is actually happening. We have hard evidence for the thousands of civilians per month being killed.

Being the 'party that offers only fear' would mean that we are saying these things in order to make people afraid of something harming them. That's the complete opposite of what we are doing. We talk about the destruction over there to inform people in the hopes that they will become sympathetic. We are talking about how the USA is harming OTHERS.

I would think that the phrase 'We fight them over there so we don't have to fight them here' is the PERFECT example of the neocons spreading a message of fear. Fear of being attacked ourselves.

[wli]

82. that's discussing reality, not the Democratic platform

There is a large difference between describing what is and what you endorse.

[frictionlessO]

31. Projection, projection, projection.. the GOP needs a Shrink, fast. n/t

[smoogatz]

6. The Republican party, on the other hand

offers you lies, corruption, incompetence, erosion of civil rights, rigged elections at home and abroad, and a lot of soldiers and civilians dead for no good reason.

[existentialist]

39. (and fear).

[tsuki]

8. Is Gumby brain damaged or just goofy? eoq

[rodeodance]

10. are they Cheney no longer is the big FEAR guy-?? te he --delusion runs

wild AGAIN!!!!!!!!1

[MrBenchley]

9. "Meanwhile, we Republica--ORANGE ALERT!!"

That IS rich coming from the party that has done nothing at all but exploit people's fear...

The gays will destroy your marriage! Watch out for Skerry Kerry! The Democrats want to ban the Bible! Terra-Terra-Terra!

[toddaa]

11. Mehlman's right

The GOP scares the shit out of me.

[sniffa]

13. oh the irony

of course, he's not joking. we shouLd take this shove right their ass.

the party of fear? :rofl:

[mogster]

15. He's saying exactly the opposite of the truth

This is a common trait with the neocons, folks. Attack the Dems for the ideology shift that really is their own.

> today's Democratic Party "isn't your grandfather's Democratic Party" of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the 1940s.

What is the truth?
That the Republican party isn't your grandfather's Republican party, but have been taken over by extremists ;-)

The Dems are still living in the world of pre-911, and have had a coherent political development since WWII - in accordance with what the rest of the world would consider 'normal'.

If anything negative could be said about the Democrat party, it is that it has gone to far to the right during the 80's/90's, seen from a post-911 perspective.

But then this is a political drift they share with most of the European parties on the 'left'.

But now things are different, no?

[fshrink]

65. Goebbels, head of nazi PR, once said

that the bigger a lie the easier it is believed. Social psychology later confirmed this paradox. There is no bigger lie than the inversion of the truth. It's easy to implement because it's a mere inversion that doesn't require complex processing (which makes it perfectly fit for the Idiot). It effectively thwart debate, since debate proceeds in the middle zone. The only way to avoid it comes from the conscience and moral strength of the emitter him/herself. Once practical truth (e.g. rigorous accountability) is not an option, it is therefore an undefeatable tool.

[moondust]

87. Projection (definition)

American Heritage Dictionary:

8. Psychology

a. The attribution of one's own attitudes, feelings, or suppositions to others...

b. The attribution of one's own attitudes, feelings, or desires to someone or something as a naive or unconscious defense against anxiety or guilt.

[zbdent]

16. And who is always saying "The Terrorists! The Terrorists!"?

Not the Dems . . .

[bleedingheart]

17. Coming from the party that created the Terror Alert Level....

yeah...keep babbling Mehlman

[Orsino]

18. The Republican Party, in contrast, forces it on us. n/t

[are_we_united_yet]

19. You are kidding Ken. Tell me you're kidding....

[ChrisK]

20. So Mr Mehlman is telling people to fear the fearful Democrats?

Umm...ok.

You would think a party that has been in control for five years would have a bit more to speak of on there side than calling the "other guy" a fear-mongerer...Tell the folks about all the great things your party has done for the economy..oh wait...what about that Bin Laden guy...ummm...Well there is always the war..oh no wait.

Fear will only get you so far in the real world...There comes a time when people stop being afraid.

[hippiechick]

21. Uh, Ken ?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[WinkyDink]

22. Well, I DO fear!

And I think we all know the psychopathic Fascist to whom I refer.

[goodboy]

23. coming from the masters of keeping the public afraid...this is textbook

Orwellian...exactly the Opposite of the way it really is.

Repeat it enough, and people will begin to believe it.

When was the last time a Dem mentioned a mushroom cloud over a US city?

[second edition]

24. He's kidding right? He's trying to be funny?

No one in their right mind would fall for this spin. Everybody knows the Repubs took fear to all new heights in the last four years.

[underpants]

34. "The President's campaign that featured hope and prosperity"

not an exact quote but pretty close-that was Mehlman describing W's 2004 campaign...seriously.

[mandyky]

35. My thoughts exactly, it is the GOP using fear and 9-11

to wage war and defecit spend our country into bankruptcy! The fear and war mongering by the GOP is ripping our country apart. The GOP accuses the Dems what they themselves are doing.

Anyone running for elections needs to remind the voters of the lies, and the lack of responsibility and accountability this administration and their supporters in Congress have allowed.

[Art_from_Ark]

44. Mehlman needs to look at this QuickTime video

http://100777.com.nyud.net:8090/media/gopconstrm.mov

[JerseygirlCT]

25. This from the guys who brought you fear and terror

They have no sense of shame.

[Neecy]

27. the "fear" thing was just padding...

Listen carefully for his racist code words:

"isn't your grandfather's Democratic Party"

In other words, the GOP is now the party for racists and those who pine for Jim Crow to return.

He's saying this in West Virginia, remember, and not New Hampshire. It's obvious.

[truth2power]

28. All PROJECTION, all the time. eom

[whosinpower]

30. Be Afraid Mehlman - BE VERY AFRAID

Cause your days in office are numbered - and you know it!

[sui generis]

33. has he been doing cocaine with the pretzeldent again?

it's really really bad for your brain tissue.

No democrat has ever said "vote for me or the eeeevil (terraists,gay married homos,feminazis,border-crossin-meckskins,liberals,tree-huggers,gun-grabbers,selfish-old-fucks-on-Social-Security) will getcha!"

Every single campaign has republicans talking about terrorists and same-sex marriage, and the collapse of western civilization, and the invasion of America by illegal immigrants stealing the white man's jobs (!), and environmentalism gone too far and people who want to take away your god given right to carry a gun into a theme park or the grocery store and people who are too old to get hired and too young to collect social security trying to get cheaper medicine from Canada.

These people are absolutely black hearted profound evil, and we are going to stop them. There is no choice but to win this battle and take America back from these fascists, and we aren't going to succeed at it by playing nice.

[ernstbass]

36. Pot, meet kettle

[progressoid]

40. George Orwell, eat your heart out.

The neocons have perfected doublespeak.

[Edgewater_Joe]

41. Go Get Comfort From Gannon, Mehlman

Bastard.

[WeRQ4U]

42. Who's idea was the "terror threat level" system again.........?? n/t

[mistertrickster]

43. Republican fund raiser--what a great place for a closeted gay

to find same-sex sex partners while he inveighs against America's "loss of values" by accepting homosexuality and sex outside of marriage.

Mehlmen--the gay-bashing gay.

Perfect example of conservative hypocrisy . . .

[KittyWampus]

45. how many times did they mention 9/11 during Jr.'s convention?

who used Osama and now Zaraqawi as a boogieman?

[Art_from_Ark]

49. GOP convention summarized in this video

http://100777.com.nyud.net:8090/media/gopconstrm.mov

[Solly Mack]

46. Mehlman needs to cover his house in duct tape and plastic

and while the oxygen slowly depletes and carbon monoxide builds up, he can replay the constant bullshit terror alerts the Bush regime has put out over the last several years.....then he can talk about who is the party of fear....

[Gregorian]

47. Ignorance is bliss

The only thing the Republicans have to fear is the truth.

Mehlman reminds me of a five year old. His party is one of words. Empty, but very very well thought out words. Word tactics.

I've been thinking a lot about this. Here's an example- If you care about the planet, you're an environmentalist. There's no antonym, and it's an extreme. So you can't rebut it with it's opposite, and you can't do any worse. And they instigate it, so you either leave it, or respond. Very tricky little bit of trivial behavior that can have consequences, when you have the media under your conrol. Five year old behavior turns into world war.

Republicans are children with matches. And they're burning down our house.

[Triana]

48. that's pretty funny coming from the head of a party whose...

...main platform is fearmongering and propaganda, particularly since 9-11.

HA! Pretentious Hypocrisy - the Hallmark of Republicans

[The_Casual_Observer]

50. He needs to change lies, this one is worn out, and nobody is

listening anymore.

[sakabatou]

51. Uh huh...

So what about the: WMDs
The mushroom cloud
The chemical and bio weapons
The anthrax
Terrorist alerts
Illegal detaining of detainees
No exit plan for Iraq or anywhere else
An unsafe world
Global warming, no plan to ease it
Dead wildlife
Housing bubble
War profiteering
Ethics violations
Bigotry

And other stuff...

[Megahurtz]

52. If there's ANY fear in the Democratic Party,

it's the fear of the G.O.P. at the helm in D.C. and what they have done,
and what they are capable of.

Todays Republican Party is not anyone's grandfather's Republican Party!

Today's Republican Party is Imperialist Totalitarian Fascisism. They say they believe in freedom,
but instead it's power, control, and oppression. They shove Religion down people's throats,
and yet hypocritically use it for their own selfish gain.

The Republican Party today is not about Freedom.

Ken Mehlman acts like he doesn't know very much about History.:dunce:

[rocktivity]

53. I agree with him. What Democrats have to offer IS fear

of Republicans.

:headbang:
rocknation

[renaissanceguy]

54. And Mehlman only offers

hypocrisy, as a neo-Jew-for-Hitler.

http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues/472476

[Burried News]

64. Could you look at this again please.

[goodhue]

55. Fear Ends. Hope Begins.

[EST]

56. The fact that the "party faithful" will even sit and listen

to this airy, fairy stuff says far more about them than it does about Mehlman or the Democratic party.

[BiggJawn]

57. I'm sorry, WHO is the party of "Fight them THERE or fight them HERE"?

I sure don't believe I ever heard Howard Dean say that.
Numerous ReTHUGlicans and ReTHUGlican shills in the so-called "Liberal" Media, sure, but I've never heard a Democrat (other than "Bought" Bayh or LIEbermann) invoking the Boogerman...

[Demeter]

58. But the GOP Delivers Fear--Right To Your Door!

You'd think with all that money they could come up with something more plausible, or palatable.

[lala_rawraw]

59. Is Kenny getting this out through Gannon?

[Mr_Spock]

63. HAHAHA - Said form the leader of the LYING MURDERING FEAR MONGERING PARTY!

Unfuckingbelievable. left is right, up is down, black is white.

These people are creating Hell on earth - thanks ass holes!!!

[Burried News]

66. Didn't Rove say something in NY about Libruls just before we found out

Fitz liked him the way Sippowitch likes a perp?
Maybe Fitz is starting to 'like' Mehlman for something and the lad is projecting his fear.

Now that's a shame ...

Ken - you really are knee deep in shit - call it rose petals if you want but the only blossom I see is Turd.

[annabanana]

67. Again and again and again , they accuse US of their sins...

If you ever really want to know what they're up to now.. just take what they're saying about us, apply it to them, and take it to the bank,baby.

[Canuckistanian]

70. Fear? FEAR? FEAR???

Fear is the currency, the stock in trade, the oxygen, the LIFEBLOOD of the GOP, especially under this psychotic crew.

They've successfully managed to scare the bejeebers out of 100% of the American people. 50% are afraid of of Liberals, Democrats and foreign terrorists, IN THAT ORDER. The other 50% are simply afraid of what these assholes will do next.

Fear? Y'all don't know nuthin' about Fear. The GOP OWNS fear.

[nolabels]

71. Yep, nothing to offer

Lets all just go home and forget about it :boring:

[goodboy]

72. mushroom clouds, mushroom clouds, mushroom clouds, grave and gathering

:nuke:

yeah right.

[TankLV]

73. WTF? This from the "terra terra terra - 911 911 911 - liberal liberal

liberal - gaymarriage gaymarriage gaymarriage" crowd?

Can you say "gall" and "projection".

And there are some here who argue that the democrats who initially supported this war cannot now oppose it.

Now we can expect a strong democratic response, right? Right? Hello?

Unfuckingbelievable.

[mitchum]

74. Big talk from a nervous nellie like Mehlman

He can't even be honest about himself, so who would expect him to tell the truth about us?

Shoot the messenger is not always a bad idea

[devilgrrl]

76. Projecting again I see.

:eyes:

[brentspeak]

77. Nothing to fear at all: You're in "good hands" with the Republicans

The Republicans will protect your job (as they look the other way while it's shipped off to another country)

...and your Social Security (by looting it's funding, and converting the system from a guaranteed benefit program to a guaranteed risk ponzi scheme)

...and the security of the United States (by refusing to heed warnings from the previous administration about possible Islamic terrorism)

...and the United States military (by sending them undermanned on a fool's errand to a foreign threat that turns out not to be a threat at all)

...and the tax dollars earmarked for the military (by forking over countless billions to buddy Halliburton for overcharged services and equipment the troops often times won't even get)

...and America's traditional good relations with much of the world (by needlessly antagonizing our traditional allies)

...and America's manufacturing strength (by sitting around and doing absolutely nothing while China dominates the world's economy)

(Good grief, this is too easy -- and too sad. I could go on all day like this, but I don't want to further depress people.)

[RSchewe]

79. ROFLMFAO, the boogiemen are going to tell us that we are scary?

September 11
Mushroom clouds
Weapons of mass death

Boo!

[Neshanic]

81. Self loathing repub gay boy. He talks to us about fear?

He's terrified that he will have to accept the upside down world of a gay republican. He gets fear served up on a dish for himself, prepared by himself....or by his "friend".

[Hailtothechimp]

83. "Mehlman party only offers bu**shit" n/t

[Gloria]

84. Dean should laugh this creep right off the map over this....

Really. Don't let it stand. Just cream the jackass...

[Rainscents]

85. WTF is wrong with these assholes anyway!

This shit is getting so old... Lalalalalalala I'm not listening anymore!:banghead:

[truthisfreedom]

88. Translation: rethug party offers only false hope and lies.

[VADem11]

89. Screw Mehlman

I can't believe none of his comments are ever paid attention to. Where the hell was the media last year when he called democrats terrorist symapthizers? He can rot for all I care. Go doctor dean!

[pinniped]

91. It was this POS's (r)epig party vp that warned before...

the (s)election to vote for them or something might happen. We all know what that piece of shit was implying.

This turd also doesn't remember who was playing around with that color coded warning crap around (s)election time.

[ngGale]

92. Right back atcha, Mehlman ...

so, sell even more fear for the next election. JFC!