New Low: "If you criticize the president, you're criticizing the troops!"

[flpoljunkie]

CNN reports the Bush campaign response to the airing of Giuliani's blaming the troops gaffe on the Today Show!

The brazenness of this is astounding. But, hey, the media still see the Emperor clothed.

Now who is the one who will say and do anything to win? The Bush/Cheney campaign! Just ask John McCain!

[vet_against_Bush]

1. Why do you hate America? nt

[DefenseLawyer]

13. and what about the children?

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. They hit gruond a long time ago, now they are

using a back hoe, industrial sized back how, or a tunnel digger, the kind used at the Chunnel

[Pirate Smile]

3. Kerry needs to come out and call Bush on trying to hide behind the troops

whenever He gets criticized. Edwards said it yesterday but Kerry may need to say it himself.

[michigandem2]

4. this was their response to Giuliani's gaffe??? rediculous

[johnnyrocket]

5. But if something goes wrong, BLAME THE TROOPS?

[Tamyrlin79]

7. That's what they did for Abu Ghraib...

Why, does this tactic surprise you?

[havocmom]

6. Quote from a Republican from an era when it was a different sort of party:

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does NOT mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficienty serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country."*

*Theodore Roosevelt

[BattyDem]

8. How can that be?

Bush was never a troop! :eyes: If you insult Kerry, a decorated war veteran, THEN you would be insulting the troops. :evilgrin:

If you follow the Repug logic, America must have really hated the troops during the Clinton impeachment!

[DinahMoeHum]

9. Yeah, but Trent Lott says we can support the troops WITHOUT

supporting the president.

'Pukes, better take your bitching elsewhere. Preferably to the Senator from Mississippi.


:kick:

[Skittles]

10. I am sick of it

Criticize our stupid piece of shit "president" or the war and get labelled "anti-troop". It's against anything our military has ever fought for; I am completely disgusted.

[City Lights]

11. I don't get it.

Dems can't criticize the presi:dunce: because they consider that to be criticizing the troops, which is bad, but rudy ghouly can bypass the criticizing of the presi:dunce: and just criticize the troops directly, and that's good? :crazy:

[d_b]

12. one of the oldest propaganda techniques:

correlating the leader with the troops, the society, and country as a whole - in the manner that they're attempting. What's scary is that it's borrowed from totalitarianism.

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

14. shrub is truly evil