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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 12:21 PM
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PHOTOS: Can McCain complain about smears when he did this to last guy to smear him in a prez race?



In 2000, the Bush campaign used all of these smears on McCain.

  • Push polls in the South accusing him of having an illegitimate black child

  • Calling his wife a drug addict

  • Saying McCain's time as a POW in Vietnam may have made him a Manchurian candidate


Is this NY Times story really unforgivable by comparison?

Are Democrats even capable of stooping so low in the general election? I doubt it.

But the Republicans will cry about any personal attacks or even policy criticism and expect people won't remember that they embraced someone who didn't fling mud but his own diseased feces.

When will Democrats start calling them on this profound double standard, or rework the GOP flip flop commercial?
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rasputin1952 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 12:25 PM
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1. All things are fair in war and politics...I don't subscribe to that...
but it is a reality.

McCain is a dud. Just let him keep talking, with each breath, he digs his own grave. Personally, I hope bush takes a stand for him...that should be the 10 ton anchor that drags him to the bottom of the sea.
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 12:35 PM
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3. Bush has said he will campaign for him, which is like having Michael Jackson do commercials for
your daycare center.
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rasputin1952 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 01:36 PM
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5. Ask not for whom the bell tolls...it tolls for McCain...
:D
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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 12:31 PM
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2. Pleez, no porno in DU. nm
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 12:39 PM
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4. it's not porn. McCain isn't bald enough to give Bush a happy ending PHOTOS
Edited on Fri Feb-22-08 12:40 PM by yurbud
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ORDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 01:39 PM
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6. Damn. Don't show this stuff anymore. I'm about to lose my breakfast.
:puke:
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