Have the Republicans crossed the line with their charges that Hillary "should be in jail" ??

[kentuck]

Is it common in political discourse to accuse your opponent of being a criminal, when there are no outstanding criminal charges? Is this a recent phenomenon?

Is this dangerous for a society? Is it slanderous? Is it criminal, in itself, to make such accusations without proof?

Of course, politics "ain't beanbag", but it's really not that simple, is it?

[Doodley]

1. I doubt they crossed the line - the more they say it, the more people believe it.

[KMOD]

22. If your goal is to appeal to ignorant people,

sure.

But it has definitely crossed a line.

[sarae]

27. I agree.

But then the line was probably crossed awhile ago, around the time Trump started with his Obama birther crap. I keep thinking, "ok, this time they've gone too far"...only to have them surprise me again.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

32. Did Trump sons and their mom "cross the line" w/ SPEECHGATE and these highly graphic warning images?

This is "REAL GOOD" for children! Please think "happy thoughts," as the final movie solution demands. Have you ever seen a "gopher with three heads?"




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3180201/Trump-defends-big-game-hunting-sons-shamed-Twitter-posing-trophy-kills-including-leopard-elephant-death-Cecil-lion.html

Donald Trump defending sons' sport killing of exotic African animals may finally doom billionaire blowhard's campaign
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/stasi-hed-article-1.2311902
"HUNTER KILLS LARGEST AFRICAN ELEPHANT AND POISONS DOZENS MORE"
IT'S A GOOD LIFE "You be dead!" this kid said.

[sarae]

38. Disgusting...

Too bad those animals didn't get a hold of him when he was unarmed. What a rotten family.

[Doodley]

42. That is their goal!

There was a time when Hillary Clinton was in the superleague of popularity for politicians. Their constant attacks on her have worked.

[leftynyc]

34. Imbeciles believe it

The cons are doing what they have ALWAYS done when it concerns the Clinton's - overreach. For 30 years, they've been doing this - LYING about the Clinton's. And that's why they always lose to Bill and Hillary. Bill is the most popular politician in the country (although Pres Obama is giving him a run for his money these days - the cons would KILL for those approval ratings) and Hillary is going to be the Democratic nominee. Screaming about jail just makes them look like the whiny little turds they are.

[LeftRant]

2. It's their favorite fantasy other than having her put to death (for treason, of course).

Normal Americans aren't quite going to understand the vitriol though. The GOP will come off as scary extreme to many.

[yeoman6987]

3. Christie was a prosecutor and former AG

I am sure he knew what he was doing.

[KMOD]

23. Oh please,

That was completely unprofessional and ridiculous. He proved himself to be a blowhard.

[leftynyc]

35. No he didn't

Blaming Hillary for boco haram kidnapping those girls? Blaming her for every bad thing that has happened internationally in the last 8 years? It was over the top bullshit.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Unfortunately, it's not just these idiots who are repeating talking points

Today I was in the checkout line at the supermarket and the "scandal sheets" were saying much the same thing!

[840high]

14. I saw them - and they

are selling like hoot cakes.

[Rhiannon12866]

15. I was pretty shocked, looked to me like the worst kind of RW viciousness

Whatever happened to aliens and Batboy??

[geek tragedy]

44. plenty of morons out there to shell out there money on that stuff nt

[KMOD]

24. the "scandal sheets"

are idiots as well.

[unblock]

5. projection is very common in politics.

[sorefeet]

6. If these muther fuckers get control

they will spend what ever it takes to put Hillary in jail and who ever else they can railroad. With taxpayer money.

[KMOD]

25. Hillary will not be going to jail, ever.

Just stop with the nonsense already.

[7wo7rees]

7. If Hillary should be, why dot W? F it all!!

[Peacetrain]

8. They have not only crossed the line..but dotted the i in insane

Never seen anything like it!

[Johonny]

9. They've been trying since 1994 to put her there and they've got nothing but Christie

throwing poo to a canned audience. That doesn't hold up in court I'm afraid RNC crowd. When you find a crime, come tell me...until then they can just shut up.

I think most DUers think Bush and Cheney are war criminals so I don't think it isn't fair game. It's hardly been effective though. Bill rode this type of talk to higher and higher poll numbers. The more they called him a criminal the more people liked him.

[okasha]

10. Yes.

But so did everyone else who lit whole banks of votive candles to the Indictment Fairy.

[PatSeg]

11. I think the line keeps getting moved

farther and farther into crazy territory. Can't even imagine what it will be like in four years.

[onecaliberal]

12. the irony is completely lost. If they had self awareness they'd know how completely

Unhinged and pathetic they look to thinking people in this country capable of critical thought.

[BigDemVoter]

13. YES

But they crossed the line a long, long, long time ago.

[glennward]

16. They crossed the line, fell off the cliff, and are swimming around in the abyss. No way should

these fanatics ever get to run a country.

[BlueMTexpat]

40. + a million or so! eom

[kentuck]

17. Banana Republics put their political opponents in jail.

Not America. It is a shame that they have sunk to this level. It is a dangerous direction.

[spanone]

18. they crossed the line when trump became the presumptive nominee

their hatred is disgusting

[kairos12]

19. They pole vaulted pass the line when failed actor Raygun got the keys to the White House.

[trackfan]

20. When the solution is jailing top political leaders of the "other" party, we've reached the point

that brought Caesar to power. Other parallels to the end of the Roman Republic are the supremacy of graft as a motivating force, and the imperial outreach of the military.

[KMOD]

21. Yes, they've crossed the line.

But they've been crossing it for 8 years now.

This ain't politics, it's derangement.

[AgingAmerican]

26. It's the same old with them

Same old crap from the 90s

And once she is in office, their whole focus will be 'Impeach!'. It's what they do. It's all they know.

[rusty quoin]

28. This hate and blame without proof started with Rush Limbaugh .

It has been going on a long time. I say that politics has led its course since Reagan, and even before. Rush used to be considered entertainment. He is the Republican Party now..and beyond.

Trump is beyond anything the Republican Party could have imagined. Good for them.

[LenaBaby61]

29. Doesn't Krispy Kreme .....

Have another bridge he needs to be shutting down somewhere, or 4 bags of Oreo's to be scarfing down one after another?

He's made a complete fool of himself--running after tRump like his little Nurse Maid fetching hamburgers, fries etc. for him only to have tRump completely humiliate him then kick him in his extra-wide fanny (tRump almost getting his foot stuck in there I bet), and his "career" is over. Even if tRump had chosen Bully Boy as his VP, he couldn't have delivered New Jersey--that's how horrible, petty, ineffective and corrupt of a Governor he's been, and most folks in New Jersey just want him to go away forever.

[Skittles]

30. they crossed the line with her when the first Clinton was running for president

they NEVER let up

[John Poet]

31. MOST Republican officeholders should be in jail.

[ananda]

33. Considering that Trump, Bush, Cheney, and so many other Reeps ...

.. should be in jail... welll..

[Enrique]

36. it's common for the rank and file to say these things

It's not common for official representatives to say them, for example a speaker at the nominating convention.

[bulloney]

37. If Hillary belongs in jail, what about Dick Cheney?

What about all of the cherry-picking of unvetted intelligence that he orchestrated just to make the case to invade Iraq so that he and his buddies at Haliburton can make tons of money? And it was all lies! And the world is still paying for it in terms of lost and messed up lives, the creation of ISIS and other terrorist groups, and trillions of dollars in taxpayer money.

But you never hear a peep from these same RW zombies about that, do you?

Like zombies, they just repeat the line that Hillary should be in jail because it's all they hear in their bubbles where all they listen to is I-Heart Radio hate mongering talk shows and Faux Snooze.

[Ms. Yertle]

39. In politics, there is no "line"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002579626

A lesson from LBJ in how to smash an opponent.

Legend has it that LBJ, in one of his early congressional campaigns, told one of his aides to spread the story that Johnson's opponent fucked pigs. The aide responded "Christ, Lyndon, we can't call the guy a pigfucker. It isn't true." To which LBJ supposedly replied "Of course it ain't true, but I want to make the son-of-a-bitch deny it."

[HereSince1628]

41. One small step for common political chauvinism, a giant leap for campaigning on personal insults.

It's very very common to invoke chauvinistic language in political discourse on-line, in bars, and playing drinking games watching opponents' televised performances. Within professional politics this sort of thing is left to the rallying speeches of surrogates, and candidates and their campaign staff never get dirty.

In a year when there is very little concern for guiding principles, or even arguing the value of tacking to approximate compass headings, there is way too much attention on defaming personalities, This shouldn't come as much of a surprise. Consider for a moment that Trump, as we know him is a traitorous friend of Putin, much worse than Hitler, and a business partner of Beelzebub.

Remember when you couldn't follow campaign news without being smacked in the ears with "gravitas" as the buzzword? Well, the name-calling ad hominen slingers have pretty much given up on gravitas in preference of gravity.

And, currently, gravity is best measured by the weight of mud and the 'strength' of a campaign is judged on it's 'throw-weight' capacity.

[DrDan]

43. pretty tame, actually . . . considering the WV politician calling for her public execution

[geek tragedy]

45. the Republicans are a fascist party. the ones who aren't monstrous fascists are the exceptions nt

[BigDemVoter]

46. Yes.

ESPECIALLY considering the fact that their party is FULL of criminals who should be indicted for war CRIMES and crimes against humanity.

[Iggo]

47. Clinton.

[leftyladyfrommo]

48. They crossed the line years ago.

I keep wondering how low it is possible for them to go and they keep surprising me.

The tweet with the picture of Hillary in front of the huge sign that said "c##t" had to be the worst thing I have ever seen. I wonder what they are going to do to beat that one.