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kma3346 Donating Member (423 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 10:22 AM
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RNC calls top democrats "Three Stooges"
I was just looking at some stories at Raw Story and one of them took me to the RNC web page. I clicked on a link that said "Three Stooges" and I found this article. It epitomizes the Repuke lies, distortions, and slanders, and it totally pissed me off! So, I'm passing it along in the spirit of, "Here's the mentality we're dealing with..."


… Since assuming their positions, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Howard Dean have shown themselves to be somewhere between useless and disastrous as party leaders. Individually, they lack substance and policy smarts (Pelosi); coherence and force (Reid); and steadiness and mainstream appeal (Dean). Collectively, they convey an image of liberal elitism, disarray, and crabbiness.

Nancy Pelosi epitomizes this problem. To understand her politics, think Huffington Post without the flashes of wit. … Pelosi dismisses people who disagree as hoodwinked or stupid. She's not exactly Hillary Clinton herself, though. A five-minute interview is usually sufficient to exhaust her knowledge on any subject. And she can flop around like a fish. When Rep. Jack Murtha, D-Pa., proposed a pullout, or "redeployment," of U.S. troops from Iraq in November, Pelosi's first reaction was to isolate him. "Mr. Murtha speaks for himself," she said. But after taking a drubbing from left-wing bloggers and her anti-war constituents, she announced that she supported Murtha after all. …

Reid's flaws are mostly a mirror image of Pelosi's. … As a leader, he's colorless and erratic. Most of the time, he's a study in gray, except when he livens it up with a spasm of random aggression. Reid has called Alan Greenspan a "hack," Bush a loser and a liar, and, in one off-the-mark, vaguely racist-sounding rant, charged that Clarence Thomas' opinions were poorly written. (…Slate's legal correspondent, Dahlia Lithwick, tells me they are quite well written.) … Reid has declined to repudiate contributions from Abramoff-linked Indian tribes, and his own family includes so many lobbyists that after some nasty press coverage, he had to ban them from his office.

Howard Dean is smarter than either Pelosi or Reid and clearly stands for something. Unfortunately, what he stands for in the minds of most people is incandescent rage and upscale socialism. Dean has an unfortunate knack for making himself the issue, even when … he's trying to maintain a low profile. His injudicious comment about the GOP being the party of white Christians was followed by his statement that "the idea that we're going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong." … Dean a few months ago took to referring to his party's base as "merlot Democrats." With him and Pelosi in charge, this threatens to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.


:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

You can see the rest of the article at:

http://www.rnc.org/News/Read.aspx?ID=6155
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TNOE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 10:24 AM
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1. Maxine Waters addressed this beautifully
on CSPAN this morning - Washington Journal when asked - she said basically - well there is a lot of infighting amongs the Repubs - and there has got to be some kind of distraction - and the WH has friends in the press. That is ONE AMAZING WOMAN! She said basically - so what, its a non-story.
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fasttense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 10:26 AM
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2. Well, how mature and grown up.
Calling names like little children. The RNC attracts such intelligent and well spoken supporters. :sarcasm:
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Kerrytravelers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 10:26 AM
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3. Yep. Mature name calling.
Paging bill o'reily... paging bill o'reiley!
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zanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 10:27 AM
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4. On C-Span this morning...
The host said that the writer of this article is a Democrat. I've never heard of the writer before, but I did notice that he uses British spelling. (programme, for example).
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shoelace414 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 10:30 AM
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5. Zell Miller is a Democrat too.
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mattclearing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 10:33 AM
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6. So is Toby Keith.
And Joe Lieberman.

Democrat is a meaningless term these days.
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MH1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 10:33 AM
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7. Jacob Weisberg from Slate
Is he normally a rethug mouthpiece? (serious question...I don't know his history)

But I agree, that's an awful article.
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 11:02 AM
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11. Actually, Peter on Washington Journal this morning commented
to one caller, that Weisberg is not considered to be a conservative at all. I don't read his columns so I don't know what his leanings are.
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 10:56 AM
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8. another article proving DEAN was right :-) good analysis of Pelosi
however.

Better to have john conyers as house minority leader, a person who stands for what he believes and acts on his beliefs.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/democratsmugs.htm
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Stockholm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 10:58 AM
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9. That piece is in today´s FT
Edited on Thu Mar-09-06 10:58 AM by Stockholm
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Yollam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 11:01 AM
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10. Nah - the stooges punched, kicked and eye-gouged.
The dems are more like Stepin Fetchit, screeching and running away in fear from seeing their own shadow.
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 11:56 AM
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12. bwa ha ha hahahaha latte drinking volvo driving blah blah blah
This is the RNC: "look! over there! a shiny thing!"
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 11:58 AM
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13. the diatribe of a desperate man who knows that they are in for
a beating this November.
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jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 12:06 PM
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14. If Dean, Pelosi, and Reid are the 3 stooges, what do you call these guys






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Eric J in MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 12:17 PM
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15. The RNC was just quoting a Slate article.
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 12:20 PM
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16. If they were as good at governing as calling names...
Our country would be in better shape right now.
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stepnw1f Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 12:23 PM
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17. Coming from a Political Mafia/Cult
lol... hilarious.
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 12:29 PM
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18. Ummm...Bush is a "loser", Greenspan is a "hack"
where's the problem?
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obreaslan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 12:30 PM
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19. I thought these were the Three Stooges...


My apologies to Moe, Larry and Curly.
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