The Bushes' stain-free smears (swiftboat vets)

[Shallah Kali]

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/shared/news/politics/stories/08/10teepen.html

In fact, Willie Horton, whose disarrayed mug shot became almost as well known as the "Mona Lisa," had been routinely furloughed from prison in a long-standing Massachusetts work/release program that had had bipartisan support. The ad was produced by an "independent" group, so that Bush's fingerprints weren't on it.

The current George Bush, after a rocky start, won the Republican presidential nomination against the rising Sen. John McCain four years ago thanks to a timely smear in the crucial South Carolina primary. McCain was portrayed as a near-lunatic who had been driven batty by his long captivity in North Vietnam. The group behind the smear was, again, "independent," so that George W's fingerprints didn't appear on the slander.

And Bush went on to win the White House as the beneficiary of another smear that cast Al Gore, who is about as straight a shooter as politics allows, as a compulsive, almost pathological liar and exaggerator. Again, all the tsk-tsking and haa-haaing about Gore came from players outside the official Bush campaign. The nominee's fingerprints weren't on the project.

Now it's John Kerry's turn, of course. This is the way Bushes do politics.

[wtmusic]

1. There is not a noble bone in Junior's body

The man is truly, truly evil.

[Catfight]

2. Which is worse, the slander or the person who stands behind the abuser?

John McCain doesn't seem to mind that he was slandered and if I have been reading correctly, stands behind his man. All's fair in love, war and Bush's politics. John McCain IS a lunatic if he's standing behind Bush.

[fdr_hst_fan]

3. I lost all respect for

McCain when he went on the road a while back touting SMIRK! Have you no decency, Senator? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. I lost respect for McCain when he logged one of the most

conservative voting records, year after year.

Actually, I never had the respect to lose. Oh, well.

[praxiz]

5. At least McCain spoke out against these SVFT-loons (nt)