The Democrat Smear Machine is now running full throttle. Democrats far and wide are slinging mud at Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin with no sense of any common decency.
Just today, South Carolina Democratic chairwoman Carol Fowler sharply slimed Sarah Palin, saying John McCain had chosen a running mate "whose primary qualification seems to be that she hasn’t had an abortion.”
When the "fit hit the shan", Fowler issued the following apology:
"I personally admire and respect the difficult choices that women make everyday, and I apologize to anyone who finds my comment offensive. I clumsily was making a point about people in South Carolina who may vote based on a single issue. Whether it’s the environment, the economy, the war or a woman’s right to choose, there are people who will cast their vote based on a single issue. That was the only point I was attempting to make."
At least she had the guts to apologize. But there's more!
Tennessee Rep. Steve Cohen did his own mud-slinging:
The Tennessee Democrat, was on the House floor giving a one-minute speech when he offered the comparisons.
“If you want change, you want the Democratic Party,” Cohen said. “Barack Obama was a community organizer like Jesus, who our minister prayed about. Pontius Pilate was a governor.”
A similar statement has been circulating in e-mails and on blogs in recent days, before Cohen spoke Wednesday. This also comes on the heels of Obama’s comment Tuesday that “you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.”
This reminds me of the ad Governor Edmund G. Brown used in 1966 against Ronald Reagan that badly backfired. In it, Brown is shown talking to schoolchildren saying, "Remember, Lincoln was shot by an actor!" This was Reagan's first campaign for governor after having been a movie & television actor and General Electric spokesman. Reagan ended up winning by a million votes.
Joe Biden also lobbed his share of mud when the said, “If you care about (children with developmental disabilities), why don’t you support stem cell research?”
The gutter politics of the Democrats doesn't just stop at mudslinging. 30 Obama campaign operatives and investigators have been air-dropped into Alaska hoping to find some dirt on Gov. Palin.
The Democrats have gone beyond "unhinged," they are undergoing a panic-driven implosion. All they have left is to sling mud. As if that's going to help them.
This has caused more thoughtful Democrats to recoil. Susan Estrich wrote:
One of the things that the initial barrage of mostly unfair attacks on Palin by many of my friends managed to accomplish was to turn her into a martyr, a heroine, a symbol of the bias and viciousness and just plain sexism of many in the left medial bloggerland. It helped turn Sarah Palin into one of the most popular and respected people in the country.
They can spew all the bile and spleen they want, that'll just make McCain-Palin's victory more of a landslide.
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