Think you've heard it all about low-rent GOP campaign tactics?

[Bob Geiger]

Just when you think you've heard it all about how low the GOP can go in trying to smear a Democrat, you hear something new and even more unbelievable.

Here's Byron Dorgan (D-ND) discussing health care legislation on the Senate floor yesterday and talking about tactics used by Republicans to smear him in his last campaign -- and check out the description of the television commercial they aired to scare voters about Dorgan's support of stem cell research.

"The last campaign I ran for office, the first two television commercials that were run by my opponent--the first was about gay marriage, that I voted against amending the U.S. Constitution to prohibit gay marriage. I can hardly think that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Mason and Madison, as they looked at what they had created as a Constitution, would think: What have we missed here? We need to put something in about gay marriage. I don't think that belongs in the Constitution.

"The first commercial was of two men kissing, with the message you would expect from the extremists. The second commercial was about a campfire leader sitting around a campfire at night with little kids sitting around gathered in front of him. 'Tell us a scary story,' the little kid said. Then the campfire leader said, 'Well, there is a man named Byron' -- referring to me, I guess -- 'and he has a plan to implant embryos into mommies' uteruses, wombs, and harvest them later for body parts.'

"That is an unbelievably ignorant television commercial, but that commercial was born of an attempt to distort my position on the issue of stem cell research."

In case you think I'm making this up, it's right here in the Congressional Record.

You can reach Bob Geiger at [e-mail] and read more from him at Democrats.com.

[patrice]

1. We're dealing with a group of people here who think the differences

between people justify a class defined society, ergo, "If you believe my lie, that's your fault not mine."

[quiet.american]

2. Oy... that's right... just when I'd thought I'd heard it all....

But what's even more scary is the stupidity of people who buy this crap.

[quiet.american]

3. Dupe

[AtomicKitten]

4. if we are capable of stooping to their level, I say let's do it

This crap is so lowbrow, it will always have a receptive audience. The Dems have to learn to go from snarky to downright mean-spirited. It apparently is the American way.

[RufusEarl]

5. Well it's always been said,

that negative adds work. But it pisses me off that we have a society that believes and enjoys this type of campaign antics.