Right-wing "Club for Growth", which attacked Dean in 04', attacks Edwards. Compares JE to Marx

[draft_mario_cuomo]

These are the same people who ran the Dean "liberal elitist latte drinking" ad...the right-wing continues to fear Edwards and the real change he would bring.

==Nachama Soloveichik • 202.887.7039 • 646.528.1029

Washington – If there is any lingering doubt about John Edwards’ bristling hostility towards economic growth in this country, all doubts should be laid to rest with John Edwards’ announcement of yet another tax hike today. In a desperate attempt to drive home his lefty bona-fides and revive his faltering campaign, John Edwards is promising to raise the capital gains tax from 15% to 28% if elected president.

As John Edwards continues to wage a political war against prosperity, his campaign platform is looking more and more like Karl Marx’s wish list:

· Terminate the Bush tax cuts

· Raise taxes at least to Clinton-era levels

· Impose socialized medicine in America, to the tune of $120 billion

· Punish the private equity industry with new taxes

· Support anti-trade protectionist policies, including opposition to the pending trade treaty with South Korea

· Choke off entry-level job growth by raising the federal minimum wage · Diminish the prospect for worker productivity gains by raising capital gains taxes to 28%==

http://www.iowapolitics.com/index.iml?Article=101054

[Sapere aude]

1. He's guilty of wanting the middle class working person to get a break.

But right wing middle class working persons will attack him for wanting to help them. Idiots.

[rinsd]

2. Marx seems to be a popular flavor of attack for the GOP of late (nt)

[Deep13]

3. You know, Edwards just keeps looking better and better.

:thumbsup:

[emulatorloo]

4. "Raise taxes at least to Clinton-era levels" -- good -- give me the Clinton era economy too!

More idiotic wingnuttery.

[Alexander]

14. Yeah, didn't we have a budget surplus under Clinton?

I want our taxes to go back to that.

[JohnLocke]

5. They fear him, because he is the strongest candidate against a Republican

[GreenTea]

6. You are absolutely correct. The republicans want John Edwards gone now.

It's quite obvious and why is that...the same reason they went after Howard Dean...The republicans always want to go up against the weakest Dem candidate...it makes sense from their stand point and republicans don't just sit idly by...they attack with all their slime and smears and lies!!!

[draft_mario_cuomo]

11. I agree, and because he is the most progressive of the top-tier candidates

[Perry Logan]

7. If Marx starts looking good to Americans, we know which party to blame.

[caligirl]

8. This Marx thing looks more like a repug talking point being spread around

another DU got a reply back from a Utah sate Representative(R) who used the same idea in responding to his email about health care changes and SICKO.


Here it is, Wimmer is the idiot repug: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3395709&mesg_id=3404414

[Bjorn Against]

9. If people knew who Marx was that name would not sting so bad

I encourage everyone who has not read the Communist Manifesto to do so, it is a brilliant piece of writing that many people would find themselves surprised to be nodding their head in agreement to. Marx was not Stalin no matter what the right-wing propagandists may try to claim, he was an economist who stood up for the rights of working people and while some of his ideas may have been better than others there is no doubt he was a very brilliant and man who understood the gap between rich and poor very well.

[MLFerrell]

10. But God forbid anyone should point out the glaringly obvious similarities between * and Hitler...

n/t

[Hawkowl]

12. Terrified of John Edwards

The right wing is absolutely friggin terrified of Edwards. They're afraid of his policies and in the space where their hearts should be, believe that only a southern white guy can win the presidency for the dems. That is why they ignore him in the MSM, and smear him on the net.

[ellacott]

13. Yes, they are terrified of him

The media is focusing on Obama and Clinton because they feel they have a better chance of beating her.

The Repubs. are salivating at a chance to run against Hillary. It will be very ugly.

[leftist.]

15. OMFG, right-wingers, can we PLEASE be done with the "Marxist" insults already?!

Does this just astound anyone else that they continue to do that?!?! This isn't the 80's, that shit doesn't work anymore. What is it with those guys and calling anyone that disagrees with them a "Marxist" / "Socialist". In fact now that I think about it I heard Hannity call Edwards a "Marxist" two days ago I think.