The GOP's Sleaziest Attack Campaign

[Judi Lynn]

Published on Saturday, July 29, 2006 by The Nation
The GOP's Sleaziest Attack Campaign
by John Nichols

How low will Republicans go to try and hang onto control of Ohio, the swing state where their machinations secured the presidency for George W. Bush in 2004?

Lower than reasonable Americans, no matter what their partisanship, no matter what their ideology, could imagine.

Gary Lankford, the Ohio Republican Party's recently hired "social conservative coordinator" this week dispatched a mass e-mail to so-called "pro-family friends" that featured his 10-point introduction to U.S. Rep. Ted Strickland, the Democratic nominee for governor.

Strickland, an ordained Methodist minister who has thrown Republicans for a loop by speaking about his faith during the campaign, is running far ahead of scandal-plagued Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, the Republican nominee who gained national fame in 2004 when he was broadly accused of manipulating election processes and vote counting to favor Bush in the presidential race.

What's the GOP strategy for getting Blackwell back into the running? Imply that Strickland is gay.

What are Republican staffers pointing to as evidence? Reports that the Democratic congressman and his wife of 20 years reside in different locations when he is in Washington.
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http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0729-26.htm

[BlueManDude]

1. there's an article about the Ohio GOP in a recent New Yorker

and their alliance with "Pastor" Rod Parsley.

[Ezlivin]

2. Just in: Strickland does not employ missionary position in coitus

And evidence is emerging that he has touched his own genitals in a sexually significant fashion.

He...must...be...stopped.

[ck4829]

3. K&R while Republicans are grasping at straws

[The Deacon]

4. Well

You've all heard the rumor that Karl Rove sexually abuses small barnyard animals. Well, it isn't true, so you should pass the rumor along.