Burnt Orange Report

John is absolutely correct. Bring it on Perry! You have done nothing good for the people of Texas.

Adios MoFo!

Sonia

This letter to the editor was brought to you by Comrade Nancy Pelosi and other form letter composers designated to attack Republican candidates.

Hey Trey, I happen to know that John C. did write that letter. He may have sent it out to many papers and if it gets published more than once, great for him. Not that Nancy Pelosi wouldn't encourage letter writers to attack republican candidates. Come on, they make such good targets. They are miserable failures at governing.

Sonia

Don't forget to add that all our highways are crumbling and Perry wants us to toll them all to pay for their construction and upkeep.

Sonia:
If you're going to defend these letter writers coherently, you have to embrace the big picture, not just what's convenient for you. About a couple of years ago, when Comrade Pelosi became House Minority Leader, she sent a letter to all her Democrat comrades in the House about the issue of Medicare. In her PR campaign effort, she urged all her caucus members to go home to their congressional districts during the recess and have celebrations at senior citizens for the 50th anniversary of Medicare. She was specific in her memo as she outlined the details in an intricate fashion (ordering a cake at the local store bakery with "Happy Birthday Medicare" written on it, specifics about where to put the table cloth, laying out pencils and paper on the table so that senior citizens could write letters to the editor about Medicare). Even several Democrat members of Congress laughed about the memo, acknowledging how lame it was.
Sonia, this is only one example of how desperate Democrats are in their publicity stunts. They scare seniors, minorities and younger people into thinking the "evil Republicans" are going to take away every cent that the federal government sends them in public assistance, which the more sound minds know is not the case. Even Clinton (post 1994) knew that a system that once was unleashed in shelling out billions of dollars in public assistance had to be reformed so that those who were able-bodied were being more productive, and that those who really needed the assistance were the ones who were receiving it.
One of the reasons Democrat candidates have been losing elections so badly is that their scare tactics very seldomly resonate with the informed voters anymore. What they cringe at is that many informed voters listen to more than the mainstream media and actively discuss the issues with other informed voters. That's why Democrats despise Fox News, talk radio, much online media and conservative organizations on college campuses.

Democratic scare tactics? Give me a break! What about saying Max Cleland supports the terrorists? Vote for Bush in 2004 or we'll have another terror attack (from our illustrious VP)? Raising the terror alert everytime Bush needs some political cover? Those are scare tactics?

Democrats calling to task the fact the Republicans see government AS the problem (and thus, want to reduce everything it does -- but never hurt the military contractors) is not a scare tactic -- it's the truth. The Republicans would love nothing more than to get rid of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.

Trey--
When you cannot defend bankrupt, corrupt Repug policies and politicians, then you can always fall back on the time-honored Repug debating tactic of resorting to ad hominem attacks and red-baiting, right? "Comrade" Pelosi? Please. The least you can do is come up with a less dated (i.e., post-Cold War), more original slur than that to avoid discussing the real issues.

Matthew:
Republicans did not attack Max Cleland's war record, as Michael Moore and others would have you believe. If you are a member of the U.S. Senate, your voting record is open game, despite what you did before then. With all due respect to ALL veterans, his title was Sen. Max Cleland, not Veteran Max Cleland or off-duty grenade accident victim Cleland. If you want to allow him to hide behind his service in the military and use it to shield him from his voting record in the Senate being scrutinized, why don't we examine the fact that he had a high ranking position in the failed Carter administration?
As for comments on terror and homeland security, much of this would have been prevented had Clinton been proactive in his eight wasted years in office when he was too busy doing damage control from his own scandals. Need I remind you that Clinton declined four offers by the Sudanese government to take custody of Osama bin Laden? Had Clinton been a real leader on this issue, 9/11 very likely wouldn't have taken place.
So if you'd take a few minutes away from the bong and whatever else you and the other libs are smoking, you'd realize that we're cleaning up the national security mess that Clinton left us in.
And as for Democrat lies about Medicaid, etc, we've been hearing those same lines since the 1980s. They've never worked..at least for the past 12 years. "The we're all gonna die", doom and gloom lines the Democrats feed us are only bought into by the scared few that the Democrats exploit to their own advantage.

And CWD:
apparently, you've never heard of Communist Party USA. They call each other "comrades." So there's no red-baiting. Try to match up Pelosi's views to their views. Pretty creepy as to what you might find. Find something other than a tie-dye shirt to wear while you're doing the comparison. Don't wanna be distracted from thinking clearly, now, do we?

C'mon Trey, you can do better than that! At the very least, try not to prove my point AGAIN when it comes to Repug debating tactics. Do you know the meaning of "ad hominem?" Probably not. All those years you've spent listening to Rush and Hannity have made you believe it is a legitimate form of argument.

Dem party=CPUSA? That's pretty stupid, Trey, even for a Repug like yourself.

But I can play this hyperbolic game too! GOP=Nazi party. See! It makes just as much sense as your smear, doesn't it?