So pervasive are Democratic dirty tricks this fall that even the New York Times takes note:
Seeking any advantage in their effort to retain control of Congress, Democrats are working behind the scenes in a number of tight races to bolster long-shot third-party candidates who have platforms at odds with the Democratic agenda but hold the promise of siphoning Republican votes. . . .
In California, Republicans have received recorded phone calls from a professed but unidentified “registered Republican” who says she is voting for the American Independent Party’s candidate for a House seat, Bill Lussenheide, not for the incumbent Republican, Mary Bono Mack.
The caller says she is voting that way because “it’s time we show Washington what a true conservative looks like.”
The recording was openly paid for by the Democratic candidate for the seat, Mayor Steve Pougnet of Palm Springs.
A group backing Harry Reid has paid for a radio ad “advertisement promoting the Senate campaign of a “Tea Party of Nevada” candidate, Scott Ashjian“:
Nevada is one of several states, including Florida, where “Tea Party” political committees have appeared on ballot lines without the knowledge or support of leading Tea Party activists, who have generally chosen not to support third-party candidacies. In most of those cases, local bloggers, reporters and lawyers have traced connections to local Democrats, drawing lawsuits, complaints and, in a couple of cases, admissions of involvement.
Guess Democrats realize their ideas aren’t resonating this year and in order to win, need to play to those that do.
(H/t: RealClearPolitics.)
I think what’s exciting is the fact that so many people are realizing their tricks and starting to resist the propaganda. The piece that ran in Politico by Carol Lee talked about the fading hope of bipartisanship. I responded with this piece, basically expressing my suspicion that voter fraud in 2008, while not stealing the election, may have exaggerated the lead Obama had.
http://colorfulconservative.blogspot.com/2010/10/of-flim-flams-and-falling-masks-obamas.html
Dirty tricks? The greatest of these is the disgraceful suppression of the military absentee-vote due to so-many Democratically-controlled jurisdictions being late in mailing out ballots…and often incorrectly counting or not counting them when they come back in.
Dirty tricks coupled with more money for tv ads seem to be working. With exception of Marco Rubio, having a comfortable lead in Forida, and Christine O´Donnell, who is so woefully behind most of the races in which the Republican had a better than margin for error lead now see their races tied or the Democrat has moved ahead. Even Jerry Brown has opened a big lead over Meg Whitman, who is far superior and unfortunately has spent so much of her personal wealth in the campaign. I wonder if George Soros´announcement that he sees a Republican tsunami and wasn´t spending any money was a ruse. Is it possible that the Republican candidates bought it and let down their guard?
When it’s the Democrats doing the dirty tricks I like how the media kind of smirks and says that’s the way politics is played.
Here in Michigan we have indictments likely in a case where local Dem activists promoted a Tea Party candidate ballot in order to confuse GenE voters and fraud the GOP out of the rightly earned TP vote.
Turns out the ring-leader of that election fraud effort is the operations chief for the Democrat’s Secy of State candidate –in Michigan, the Secy of State is the highest elections regulation official.
Sweet, eh? Democrats still practicing voter fraud and electoral crimes in order to advance their interests.
Oh… and the moderate GOP slate is still ahead in the Blue-state Michigan by nearly 20 pts.