NRSC plans multi-state attack tying Democrats to Abramoff

[nickshepDEM]

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.”

The campaign will zero in on Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.); Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin, both Michigan Democrats; and the Democratic Senatorial Committee (DSCC), among others, for taking money from Abramoff’s former clients.

Stabenow is up for reelection next year; Reid and Levin are not. With the entry of Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard (R) into the Senate race in Michigan, many leading Republicans believe they have a reasonable chance of unseating the first-term senator.

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.

[HillDem]

1. Unbelievable

They're trying to blame us for their mess?

[Vincardog]

2. Tides do not respond to propaganda. They can run but not hide.

The only way thee radical right can survive 2006 is to cook the shit out of the vote. Are we going to let them?

[NanceGreggs]

3. Memo to Repubs:

Really, you don't want to go THERE. If it comes down to a battle over which party has the most corrupt politicians, and who can be tied to what, it's going to come back and BITE YOU IN THE ASS.

I hope the Dems are smart enough (!) to call this tactic what it is: "We're not really guilty of anything, because they're guilty too." Time and again, it's been shown that the American citizenry doesn't fall for that crap, right or left, Repub or Dem, liberal or conservative.

[aquart]

6. Having no power whatsoever, we're whistle clean.

This is gonna be fun.

[NanceGreggs]

7. I'm all for Democrats putting up a good fight ...

... but if the Repubs want to fight us on whose politicians are more corrupt, we may as well put up the white flag, surrender and beg for mercy. There's no way our numbers can top theirs in this particular category, so let's just accept TOTAL DEFEAT on this one!

[Pam-Moby]

4. I can not get your link to work.

:shrug:

[nickshepDEM]

5. Sorry about that.... FIXED

[asjr]

8. The Republicans' dirty little wars against Democrats

are some of the reasons nothing gets done on the Hill. There are fights every day, most times the Repubs coming out on top because they have the power. They also have the media. They must have an unlimited supply of money to buy the journalists because the networks keep working for them. I have seen commentators grinning broadly at an invisible uptick in Shrub's poll numbers. It is just sickening.