Repugs planning public relations offensive tying Dems to Abramoff

[kpete]

Let the bamboozlement begin!

This just out from The Hill ...

The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) is planning a public-relations offensive tying leading Democrats to lobbyist Jack Abramoff in an effort to neutralize accusations that Republicans have been embroiled in a “culture of corruption.”
This is choice stuff. But as we saw with the recent example of a Washingtonpost.com editor intentionally distorting a scandal story to make it more 'balanced', there's a real appetite for this sort of mumbojumbo among a lot of reporters and editors.

So it'll make sense for everyone to keep their eyes open.


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/
http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Campaign/120805_abramoff.html

[Arkana]

1. Then we had best get our butts in gear planning an offensive ourselves,

preferably one armed with actual facts.

[Loonman]

2. Dems gotta get on this

No more passive protests and empty condemnations.

[Norquist Nemesis]

3. These "offensive" strategies are really becoming tiring

Anyone notice how it's always an "offensive" thing when, in reality, it's defensive?

Liberal media my ass!

[BOSSHOG]

4. Such an offensive is part of their "culture of corruption"

[Pirate Smile]

5. We better be ready. They have been quite effective at this crap in

the past.

"Republicans have spent months trying to blunt Democratic ethics charges. But the new communications blitz - which will include disseminating talking points to Capitol Hill Republicans and flooding local media with information linking Democrats to Abramoff - marks a more coordinated effort to halt the anti-GOP tide.

NRSC spokesman Brian Nick said the campaign committee would "be getting the resources" not only to senators up for reelection but to all members of the Republican Conference "so that they can offensively message that Democrats are playing partisan politics with an issue that involves all of Congress."

Nick indicated the NRSC would almost certainly run television ads countering DSCC ads attacking Republicans for their association with Abramoff. "Anybody would be able to safely assume that there are going to have to be ads to respond to those ads," Nick said, referring to the Democratic spots.

Democrats said the GOP media campaign reflects fears that some Republicans who had not been deemed vulnerable might lose next year. Topping that list, these Democrats said, is Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), who has been attacked for his connections to Abramoff."

[NanceGreggs]

6. Memo to All Repubs:

I don't think you really want to go THERE.

In a battle as to whose party has MORE corrupt politicians than the other, we surrender now and admit defeat. Your numbers would FAR OUTWEIGH ours!

[sojourner]

7. difference between us n them. we (I do anyway) WANT crooked

Dems out just as much as we want crooked Repugs out. so let 'em expose away. they have way MORE of 'em than we do. countin' on it.