What lies will the Republicans use against each Democrat?

[Onlooker]

This list is hardly complete:

Hillary -- had an affair Vince Foster that led to his suicide, has a Muslim lesbian girlfriend, looked the other way while her husband committed raped
Obama -- drug abuse, Muslim
Edwards -- ambulance chaser

I don't think they have lies ready for these people since they're not seen as bing in contention:
Richardson --
Biden --
Kucinich --
Dodd --

[napi21]

1. Who knows! My brain isn't devious enough to even guess!

Look at the BS they criticized Gore for. He claims to have invented the internet. Who would have tghought of THAT ONE before it happened? How about Osama being Dean's buddy? How about the Swift boaters and Kerry.

As I've said in the past, if they can't find some kind of dirt, they just make it up!!!

[maddiejoan]

10. Republicans attack in one way

Turn the strength into weakness.

Mind you flip-flopper will be off the table with the new crop of Republicans --as they are all flippin' and floppin' all over the place.

With that in mind what we will need to watch for: (This is NOT what I believe to be true)

Hillary -- Crazy Control freak, Overly ambitious, wants revenge against Republicans.

Obama -- Out of control dreamer, Never takes a firm stance on anything. No experience

Edwards -- Why is he so angry? Why is he so angry? He's pretty when he's angry.

Biden -- Washington Insider, past his prime, east coast elite liberal with a big mouth

Richardson -- He's a Mexican, Doesn't seem very Presidential, Terrorists will kill us.

Dodd -- see Biden -- plus -- did he have a stroke? Is he crazy? How's his health?

Kucinich -- Out of control dreamer, Looney Tunes, Was his wife a former prostitute?



In general this campaign I believe Republicans will attempt to make any Democrat look crazy.
That will be the overall meme. Democrats are crazy.

[antiimperialist]

2. Socialized medicine

It's one of their favorite.

[ThomWV]

3. My guesses

Remember, the allegations don't have to be true to be made.

Hillary: Everything you can think of and everything you have heard for the last 16 years, all over again.

Obama: They will pull the nod-nod-wink-wink race card in the south and west of course, then they will hammer him on inexperience.

Edwards: Trial Lawyer, no experience, pretty boy, millionaire predator on good honest companies.

Richardson: See Obama above but they will also somehow find a way to make him look like he personally drove every southern illegal that ever made it across the border home for dinner before sending them on their way north east and west to take white men's jobs.

Biden: They will say he is long winded and somehow beholden to the banking interests.

Kucinich: They will belittle him and make him look and sound like Howdy Doody.

Dodd: Who knows, he'll never make it though so I'm not too concerned. I will say, however, that he is a fine Senator and I support him in his efforts to clean up at least some of Bush's mess. At least he has the balls to stand up.

There's two other guys registered as Democrats too, I don't know anything about them other than that one lists his occupation as truck driver.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. They will use racism and sectionalism to get their points across

Sadly, there are a lot of Southerners I know who have stated to me that they won't vote "for a Yankee". They'll also not vote for a non-WASP or a woman.

[FrenchieCat]

5. Your list is not even the start of it......

Some of the smears will be lies, other smears will be one sided exaggerated truths. The truths will be the most difficult to fight.

The ones you list are lies on Hillary, a 1/2 lie and an exaggerated truth on Obama, and name calling on Edwards. All have much more than that to play off of.

Hillary has the least, because most of what they have on her would be too obviously rehashed and would be discounted or even ignored by most voters. With her, they will rather play "words gotcha" more than attempt to go with apparent lies. They won't deal with issues of economics with her (cause Clinton balanced the budget), but they will go after her on her health care program.

With Obama, they will go after his inexperience, most of all. They will also conduct a whisper campaign of lies and innuendos and rehashes of his past and allude to his race, but they will be forced to do this below the radar, which will be difficult, cause everyone already knows he's Black. They will also go for the gotchas.

With Edwards, they will go with exaggerated truths and do a character assassination on his honesty via citing issue flip flops between 2000-04 and 2005-07, and highlight his multiple apologies for various mistakes. They will also go after the disconnect between Edwards' lifestyle and his populism. They will conduct a "below the radar" campaign portraying him as an effeminated caricature. Of course there will be the gotchas on quotes such as, "the war on terror is nothing but a bumper sticker" and one sided criticism on the price tag on his proposed social programs and tax hikes. In reference to your suggestion of "The Ambulance Chaser" routine, that won't go over well, and I doubt they use it.

There's quite a bit of material on Richardson as it is (Los Alamos lost secrets, Manhandling/womanizing co-horts), so it wouldn't take long to come up with what they need.

Biden will hear once again about his plagiarism from way back when...but mostly they'll attempt to equate him to past eastern liberal elites that have ran. Whisper about his hair plugs maybe...

If nothing else works, or they run out of smears for any of them, they will do as many Scare 'em terror routines as required and will put national security again at the forefront (but not Iraq).

[MethuenProgressive]

9. Good post, Frenchie.

:dem:

[Kucinich4America]

6. Let me give these a shot

I don't think they have lies ready for these people since they're not seen as bing in contention:

Richardson -- Too easy... He's one of them "brown people" who would love to open the borders and let all his "family" in.

Biden -- I don't know.... hairplugs? Plagarism. Yeah, those aren't exactly lies, but they are weak excuses for arguments.

Kucinich -- The "Ron Paul" fake association ploy didn't work. Guess they'll just have to revert to the usual "commie leftist" crap.


Dodd -- "Northeast Liberal". That's enough of a codeword in Repuke circles.

[MethuenProgressive]

7. It's not the lying, it's the framing of issues:

They won't lie, because they'll dance instead.
Against Obama, for instance GOP Candidate Smith runs as the anti-drugs, anti-islamoism choice. Half the TV ads picture a black kid doing coke, the other half mention Hussein and Muslim and Terrorism and 9/11 over and over. Heaven forbid one photo of a stoned Obama ever surfaces...
All that without ever mentioning Barack Obama.
Against Edwards, it's "I'm sorry" and "I feel pretty" endlessly, as background music to every commercial and public appearance.
Hillary's harder, but Romney has already attacked her stringing the words "Clinton" "Whitehouse" and "intern" together in ads and speeches. I suspect they'll attack her mostly for being married to Bill.
It's gonna be ugly, no matter who we choose.

[Smarmie Doofus]

8. My guess is they'll resurrect the 'faggot" canard.....

... against Edwards that Coulter trial- balooned earlier on. They have less to work with on Edwards than the other DEM frontrunners cause the 'ambulance chaser' thing is a double edged sword for them. I.E. most people may not think that whuppin' the tar out of corporate trasngressors in court is such a bad thing.

But appealling to homophobia is a potentially bottomless well in a culture as sexually immature as our own. This will feature in their attack plan on Clinton as well... should she be the nominee.

My guess is with Obama it will be the obvious. Their dillema is how to make race the issue without 'making race the issue'.

Believe me... they are working overtime.

[cali]

14. I think they have an easier time with Edwards. They don't have

to use dog whistle politics. Here's just one of the ads I'd run against Edwards if I were the RNC:

Scene: School parking lot. Two mothers standing outside their SUV's talking:

Woman 1: Have you heard that John Edwards want us to give up our SUVs because he says they're bad for the climate?

Woman 2: Yeah I know, and have you seen his house?

Switch to an ariel view of JE's house and voiceover: A soothing male voice says:

John Edwards lives in a 28,000 thousand sq ft house with an indoor pool and a basketball court. Electricity costs are xxx a month, and yet he wants you to make the sacrifices. Why isn't John Edwards willing to lead by example on the environment?

Back to parking lot, children come running up to their mommies.

First woman: I just can't vote John Edwards. I don't trust him.

Second woman: I know just what you mean.

children do something cute, moms laugh and say goodbye.

Hillary's easy too:

Sinister music, unflattering still of Clinton.

In 1993 America defeated Hillary Clinton's disasterous healthcare plan. Now she's back and her plan is even worse. Hillary wants to ration health care.

video of clinton at her most high pitched talking about healthcare. (I'm sure they'll find one)

Voice over: In 1993 America told Clinton, no thanks. Now it's more important than ever to say no to Hillary Clinton and socialized medicine.

[Whisp]

11. The ones Hillary digs up. nt

[quinnox]

12. Barak Hussein Obama will be repeated endlessly

in republican attack ads. That is just for starters, I will go into this topic more at some later time in a post of my own.

[Lucinda]

13. The key is to look for their strengths...then think of a way to attack them with it