How can Republicans deny that their party leaders play dirty in elections?
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I agree. I'm glad Karl Rove paid Kerry to make an idiot of himself....again
448560
the pol. party that is grasping onto straws tring to bring the Republicans down instead of trying to elevate themselves
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The Republicans are more supportive of their colleagues IF they are clean. They are quick to scorn their colleagues if their colleagues are not clean. THE DEMOCRATS, ON THE OTHER HAND, AWARD THEIR EXPOSED FILTHY COLLEAGUES AS IN THESE SITUATIONS:::::::::::::In 1990, PPelosi voted three times to make a convicted page sexual predator,\n former Congressman Gerry Studds (D-Mass.), chair of a congressional committee. \nelosi voted against censuring Barney Frank for having his live-in boyfriend \nrun a prostitution ring from Frank's apartment. \nPelosi raised no objections when Clinton pardoned Democrat Congressman Mel Reynolds (Ill.) \nwho had been convicted of felonies for having had sex with a 16-year-old campaign worker. \nThe historic Nancy Pelosi is an authentic representative of San Francisco liberal values and hardly\n has the record to lecture anyone on cleaning up the Congress.
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Republicans pander to the Christian community, they pretend to have Christian values to get their votes. The conservative Christians preach that homosexuality is wrong. The republicans , who obviously don't believe that, simply latch on to this belief and make it a moral cause to stop the gays. They win elections on issues like gays, abortion, prayer in school etc. while they could care less about those issues they remain extremely important to them as a control tool in moving their voting base to the polls. If the republicans revealed their true selves they could kiss their base goodbye. All that matters to Republicans is power and money. They will lie, cheat, steal, and hide behind God until they get caught. And then they will still lie, cheat, steal and hide behind God in an attempt to weasel out of it.
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the rules are different because democrats are different than republicans, didnt you know?\na democrat can stand on his head and tell the rest of the world is upside down, and everyone else will believe it.  if a republican does the same, he gets sued for teling everybody else what he thinks should be right.\nwhen a democrat accuses a republican of voter fraud, being unfair to somebody or a group of people, cheaing on something, or anything of that nature, its really what the democrats are doing.  when a republican does the same thing, the democrats say its slander and hate speech.\ndemocrats are allowed to be different because they know better than everybody else, and republicans are just a bunch of sticks in the mud from states where there is no common sense.\nlast but not least, dont forget, 5000 years of human evolution doesnt mean anything now that the democrats are in power, or will be, next year.
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Be fair. The people who have hijacked the Republican party hate most truths that don't lead to profit and power.
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republicans crossed the line a long time ago.  They are so far over the line that they can't see it behind them with a telescope.\n\n\nthe difference between republican and Democratic dirty tricks is that when Democrats do it, it is one or two misguided individuals.  republicans do it on directives from the party.
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It is sad to me that a party like the Republican party, which prides itself on having a much more educated and affluent constituency has shown itself to be so disingenuous, and outright hateful. The parties morality has turned out to be nothing more than just a very cleaver deception to garner votes by stirring peoples emotions on controversial issues( abortion, gay marriage, affirmative action, terrorism, etc.) that they realistically could do nothing about, or in certain cases even wanted to do nothing about( Osama Bin Ladin). When their true motive was to weave their web of corruption( illegal wire tapping, slothfulness after natural disasters due to race of victims, tokenism, War in Iraq), and control( appointments of unqualified individuals to high Federal Offices), in order to feather their own nests , and leave the Middle Class in America in ruin. When are we going to wake up and smell the coffee? America must demand legitimacy, and accountability from it's Political Leadership! We are not getting this from the current Republican Administration, so lets give the Democrats the same opportunity that we gave the Republicans!!! It could be no worse...
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You have to appeal to their personal self-interest.  For example, Republicans declined to hold Congressional hearings on executive branch involvement in rendition, torture, or warrantless wiretapping.  But when the FBI raided a Congressman's office, they suddenly became very concerned about the administration's disregard of Constitutional protections.  House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.) scheduled a series of hearing on it; he called the first one "Reckless Justice."  Go figure.
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I'm sure all human beings on the planet have done something sometime that we are not proud of. If someone brings it up, we say sorry and move on. \nDenying and lying only serves to discredit us, the way Lynn Cheney discredited herself when she lied to Wolf Blitzer (I saw the show). \nAs for your question about Republicans ever dropping their holier than thou pretensions- the answer is no, they won't drop that facade because they think the American people are all real stupid. The problem is, some of the American people who consider themselves Republican do not tend to see through the lies, even when they are the blatant and in your face kind of lies.\nFrankly, I don't care what kind of books her highness writes, or wrote in the past. I just resent her implication that she is above reproach because of her party affiliation. We all know how corrupt her husband is, so we should not be surprised that she would be any different. \nWhat is really appalling is that no matter how transparent these people are, it is just the game of politics, and they know they will not lose their wealth or status because the American people know they lied. They are laughing all the way to the bank, at our expense.
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I think, in any race where the vote is close, the apparent loser, regardless of party, will cry foul.\n\nThat's not necessarily a bad thing.  It's evident that we have some serious problems running clean elections in this country.  Every time an election result is challenged, it reveals flaws in the different voting systems that can then (hopefully) be remedied.  More importantly, it reveals those flaws to the public, who can then see for themselves just how hard their elected officials are actually trying to run clean elections.  Or aren't, as the case may be.\n\nI heard a poitical analyst on a radio staion speaking recently (sorry, I didn't catch who it was) and he made an excellent point about how the Republican Party wins.  He said, they don't try for a landslide victory.  They try for 1 or 2% of the vote.  \n\nI'm not claiming, with that quote, that Republicans are cheating at the polls.  My point is, with the current flawed elections processes, while 1 or 2% should be enough to win an election, it is well within the margin of error, no matter how many times the votes are counted.  No matter who is declared the winner, I'd like to be certain they actually won.\n\nGetting our elections processes cleaned up across the country, and having an accurate way to verify disputed votes, is the only way to be sure we will get accurate counts.  That will only happen in response to public pressure.  If voters feel there's something hinky about the election results in their district/state, I hope they scream loud and long, and get to the bottom of it, no matter how long it takes, or how much it costs.
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Drive people to the polls as long as Republicans are not jamming the phone lines!\n\nWhite House pressed on N.H. tactic\nDemocrats seek records, testimony on phone jamming\nBy Rick Klein, Globe Staff  |  April 13, 2006\n\nWASHINGTON -- New Hampshire Democrats are seeking to depose senior White House officials to learn what they knew about a 2002 episode in which a national Republican operative helped organize the jamming of Democrats' phone lines on Election Day, a scheme for which two GOP officials have already been convicted.\n\nSign up for: Globe Headlines e-mail | Breaking News Alerts This week, as a Manchester judge considers a request to compel testimony and records from the White House and the Republican National Committee in a civil suit brought by the Democrats, the nearly four-year-old local political scandal spilled onto the national scene, with the chairmen of the parties trading barbs and accusations.\n\nHoward Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, sent a letter on Tuesday to his RNC counterpart, Ken Mehlman, citing the fact that the man convicted of organizing the phone-jamming called the White House political office repeatedly in the days before the election. Dean demanded that Mehlman say whether anyone at the White House or the RNC knew about the plot.\n\nMehlman, who in 2002 headed the White House political office, responded by saying he and his staff knew nothing of the plans. But Democrats fired back yesterday, accusing Mehlman of refusing to reveal the extent of the contact between the White House or RNC and the New Hampshire operatives.\n\n''They're stonewalling because they can't face the truth," said Damien LaVera, a DNC spokesman. ''The law was broken here. We need to know where this goes -- who was involved in this, who authorized it."\n\nAnd watch those paperless voting machines!\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hImlHO4csA\n\n\nNever, Never Vote for a Cheating, liar Republican!\n\nWhere is Osama bin Laden????????????????
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both parties lie... and commit crimes... there are bad apples in both parties... and lip service is a trademark of the Republican party... I haven't seen a problem solved under Bush yet... maybe catching Saddam, but even that has created a power vaccum that doesn't look like it's going to turn out well...\n\nHow about stop whinning about the past and try to make a difference for once?
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not realy i have  trouble with people who do not own companies that employee more then25 people or incomes in eccess of 500,000 annualy being republicans so they all must be conservatives and democrats should try to get there votes in the last week of the next presidential election we should all leak a story that republican presidential candidate has paid for his college girl freinds abortion and see what happens the mear suggestion might cost him  millions of votes right or wrong but then again they are stuborn people who would not beleive it anyhow once they make up there minds it  takes an act of congress to change there minds.they stick by there man saying he didnt do it it all lies you gotta get them before the mind is closed to new information the women go for the kindest looking and most honest looking guy.the men have to vote with the wifes or not get any for four years till the next election .republican husbands have been know to take mistresses for four years and all of a sudden abandone them .\nSo i say there is some truth to the rumors.
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Republicans just dont take responsibility for their ridiculous actions regarding the budget,  and just about everything else they screw up over there at Capital Hill, they just simply,,  put the blame where ever they can, as long as, its not "Them". The Republican code of ethics and oath reads like this, beginning with this simple statement: "I dont recall" therefore I am not accountable".....  \n\nCome on , we all know for the most part Republicans are swindlers... and can fanagle there way out of just about anything when the start to feel the heat!
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it's typical of the party...they can't face issues that matter to the people so they throw this crap at their opposition...it makes you wonder, though...if this is what they have to do to get in office, how do they justify their own existence?
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This is the game Republicans play:\n\n1-Dishonestly get away with hatred by saying "well you cant just call me hateful if you dont agree" even if they actually are.\n\n2-Turn everything upside down.To hell with freedom in America.Only Conservative Republicans have moral virture and we're gonna proove it to you if its its the last thing we evder do"\n\nFunny how the biggest Conservatives are the biggest hypocrites.\nWhy?\n\nConservative rhetoric is COMPENSATORY for the skeletons in the closet.\n\nNow you know.