Could be, if this is correct, from NRO's The Corner:
I’m told the fight for Republicans to keep Mark Foley’s seat is “going really well.” Charlie Cook and Stuart Rothenberg seem to agree because they've upgraded the race from lean Dem to toss-up in recent days. A source close to the Negron campaign tells me that they’re “now neck and neck in polling and have a larger buy than Mahoney. We have been nailing Mahoney because he talks about jobs all the time but his company is a big cheerleader for outsourcing.”
Floridians are doing their part: Jeb Bush campaigned for Negron two weeks ago and will be back this week. So will Mel Martinez. House members are lending a hand (for better or for worse): Roy Blunt was recently there and Joe Wilson from South Carolina campaigned for Negron over the weekend.
Byron wrote on the Negron campaign — and the brilliant "Punch Foley for Joe" strategy — here last week.
If we end up holding Foley's seat, then it might be indicative of a wave towards the GOP - and indicator, as I think it will be, that the GOP base is burying the hatchet and returning home out of complete disgust with the way the Democrats have behaved these past few months. It is one thing to say, "lets stay home and give the Donks two years, then we'll come back stronger than ever", and allowing dishonest and disgusting political hacks to gain power in the United States Congress.
If we end up winning, as I expect we will, then the lesson will be that the politics of personal destruction - started and perfected by Democrats - just doesn't work.
Posted by Mark Noonan at October 30, 2006 10:44 AM
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Whenever Democrats point out the failure of Republican policies it is a "smear" campaign.
Confronted with valid criticism, it is Republicans who resort to personal attacks and other unethical behavior. Anyone who dares to oppose the war and occupation of Iraq is instantly branded an unamerican traitor, for example. Yet is was perfectly OK to challenge President Clinton during military actions against in Kosovo.
You people who support Bush should really listen to yourself for once and hear all the negative vitriol that spews out anytime someone desires a mature discussion of the issues.
Wade
PS: So is Bush lying or forgetting his many uses of the term "Stay the Course" when he flat out denied it on George Stephanopoulos' show the other day?
Posted by: Wade at October 30, 2006 01:02 PM
This is too easy. I ask you what smear? Rep Duke Cunningham is in jail for corruption, Republican K street lobbyist Jack Abramoff is in prison singing like a bird, Republican Rep Bob Ney while still collecting Congressional pay plead guilty to corruption, Mark Foley's Pedogate put a dent in the so called moral party, Hastert engages in pedophilia cover up, Republican leadership blames each other for Pedogate, Brownie leaves bodies floating in the street while he looks for a restraunt, Senator Burns smacks down Virginia firefighters, Sen Ted Stevens wants money for a rich folk bridge, PA Rep Sherwood chokes his mistress, Libby outs a CIA operative and her contacts for simple political purposes, rising Republican star Linda Schrenko pleads guilty to money laundering, Rush Limbaugh mocks the sick and Tom Delay has a mug shot. It goes on and on.
To put in simply Republicans are smearing themselves just nicely. They don't need any outside help.
Posted by: Josh Keaton at October 30, 2006 03:41 PM
To put it simply, even with that laundry list which includes a group of 'who?' folks, America still cant stomach the thought of letting liberals back into power.
We would rather deal with Studds...er...I mean Foley and put the guy out to pasture than watch the American branch of Al-Queda regain the house and senate.
Posted by: Lose the Bongos at October 30, 2006 04:56 PM
You shameless hypocrite. The "politics of personal destruction?" "Started and perfected by the Democrats?"
What about John McCain's "black baby" in South Carolina? What about the Saxby Chambliss smear campaign against Max Cleland? What about the Swift Boat Veterans for (So-Called) Truth?
My problem isn't so much that you people smear my party. That's politics in the age of Atwater and his protege Rove and his protege Mehlman. My problem is that you turn a blind eye to everything your party does wrong, and sometimes you lie about your opponents.
It's sad.
Have fun on November 7th.
Posted by: DougW at October 30, 2006 10:39 PM
"Both political parties are functioning in the 2006 House races as factories for attack ads, but the National Republican Campaign Committee's work stands out this year for the sheer volume of assaults on the personal character of Democratic House challengers.
The ads being aired by both the NRCC and its rival, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, are overwhelmingly negative. However, the DCCC ads generally attack Republican candidates on policy issues or their performance in office – accusing them of casting votes favorable to drug or oil companies, or of supporting President Bush's unpopular policies in Iraq or on Social Security. We've recently criticized factual inaccuracies we've seen in some of those, and we'll have more to say in a later article. Here we focus on the NRCC's ads, which are much more likely to demean an opponent's character. That's the very definition of political mudslinging.
The Republican ads variously accuse Democratic candidates of such things as charging an "adult fantasy" phone call to taxpayers, of being a "hypocrite," of being a "greedy trial lawyer," of being a "millionaire know-it-all," or of failing to pay local business taxes on time. One ad describes a Democrat's "ethical judgments" as "bad to bizarre" and claims he favored use of 50,000-volt Taser weapons on seven-year-olds.
A derogatory ad can be accurate, and when supported by facts can give voters information about a candidate that they may well find relevant. For example, one NRCC ad correctly states that a Democratic candidate wrote a letter asking a judge to go easy when sentencing a felon convicted of bank fraud in a scandal that bilked hundreds of homeowners. However, several of the NRCC's ads are smears that twist facts or ignore them. A sheriff running for the House is accused of having "fixed" a speeding ticket for his daughter, for example, when in fact the ticket was paid and the daughter got no special treatment. We found repeated examples of this sort of thing, and we detail them here."
Read the rest here(Can't post links either):
www(dot)factcheck(dot)org(slash)article460(dot)html
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Whenever Democrats point out the failure of Republican policies it is a "smear" campaign.
Confronted with valid criticism, it is Republicans who resort to personal attacks and other unethical behavior. Anyone who dares to oppose the war and occupation of Iraq is instantly branded an unamerican traitor, for example. Yet is was perfectly OK to challenge President Clinton during military actions against in Kosovo.
You people who support Bush should really listen to yourself for once and hear all the negative vitriol that spews out anytime someone desires a mature discussion of the issues.
Wade
PS: So is Bush lying or forgetting his many uses of the term "Stay the Course" when he flat out denied it on George Stephanopoulos' show the other day?
This is too easy. I ask you what smear? Rep Duke Cunningham is in jail for corruption, Republican K street lobbyist Jack Abramoff is in prison singing like a bird, Republican Rep Bob Ney while still collecting Congressional pay plead guilty to corruption, Mark Foley's Pedogate put a dent in the so called moral party, Hastert engages in pedophilia cover up, Republican leadership blames each other for Pedogate, Brownie leaves bodies floating in the street while he looks for a restraunt, Senator Burns smacks down Virginia firefighters, Sen Ted Stevens wants money for a rich folk bridge, PA Rep Sherwood chokes his mistress, Libby outs a CIA operative and her contacts for simple political purposes, rising Republican star Linda Schrenko pleads guilty to money laundering, Rush Limbaugh mocks the sick and Tom Delay has a mug shot. It goes on and on.
To put in simply Republicans are smearing themselves just nicely. They don't need any outside help.
To put it simply, even with that laundry list which includes a group of 'who?' folks, America still cant stomach the thought of letting liberals back into power.
We would rather deal with Studds...er...I mean Foley and put the guy out to pasture than watch the American branch of Al-Queda regain the house and senate.
You shameless hypocrite. The "politics of personal destruction?" "Started and perfected by the Democrats?"
What about John McCain's "black baby" in South Carolina? What about the Saxby Chambliss smear campaign against Max Cleland? What about the Swift Boat Veterans for (So-Called) Truth?
My problem isn't so much that you people smear my party. That's politics in the age of Atwater and his protege Rove and his protege Mehlman. My problem is that you turn a blind eye to everything your party does wrong, and sometimes you lie about your opponents.
It's sad.
Have fun on November 7th.
"Both political parties are functioning in the 2006 House races as factories for attack ads, but the National Republican Campaign Committee's work stands out this year for the sheer volume of assaults on the personal character of Democratic House challengers.
The ads being aired by both the NRCC and its rival, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, are overwhelmingly negative. However, the DCCC ads generally attack Republican candidates on policy issues or their performance in office – accusing them of casting votes favorable to drug or oil companies, or of supporting President Bush's unpopular policies in Iraq or on Social Security. We've recently criticized factual inaccuracies we've seen in some of those, and we'll have more to say in a later article. Here we focus on the NRCC's ads, which are much more likely to demean an opponent's character. That's the very definition of political mudslinging.
The Republican ads variously accuse Democratic candidates of such things as charging an "adult fantasy" phone call to taxpayers, of being a "hypocrite," of being a "greedy trial lawyer," of being a "millionaire know-it-all," or of failing to pay local business taxes on time. One ad describes a Democrat's "ethical judgments" as "bad to bizarre" and claims he favored use of 50,000-volt Taser weapons on seven-year-olds.
A derogatory ad can be accurate, and when supported by facts can give voters information about a candidate that they may well find relevant. For example, one NRCC ad correctly states that a Democratic candidate wrote a letter asking a judge to go easy when sentencing a felon convicted of bank fraud in a scandal that bilked hundreds of homeowners. However, several of the NRCC's ads are smears that twist facts or ignore them. A sheriff running for the House is accused of having "fixed" a speeding ticket for his daughter, for example, when in fact the ticket was paid and the daughter got no special treatment. We found repeated examples of this sort of thing, and we detail them here."
Read the rest here(Can't post links either):
www(dot)factcheck(dot)org(slash)article460(dot)html