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Showing Original Post only (View all)Max Cleland was unpatriotic. John Kerry was a coward. Al Franken, a champion for women's rights, [View all]
is a heel. Al Gore, who helped to create the internet, claimed he invented the internet. Hillary Clinton, an excellent sec of state, conspired to kill Americans overseas while sec of state.
This is GOP ratfucking 101. You go right at your opponents strengths, with attacks so over the top and preposterous, that people are at first stunned by your audacity and then conned by the (inevitably weak) response of the Democrats.
(hint: it almost always works)
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Max Cleland was unpatriotic. John Kerry was a coward. Al Franken, a champion for women's rights, [View all]
ProfessorPlum
Dec 2017
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He did say some of the accusations were not true and others he either didn't remember
pangaia
Dec 2017
#27
waiting for the accusations coming against the Dems who pushed SENATOR FRANKEN out, gonna be rich
BamaRefugee
Dec 2017
#9
Karl Rove said to attack their strengths, not their weaknesses. R's have.
eppur_se_muova
Dec 2017
#16
Actually it isn't the public that are the dupes, it's the media. It becomes a matter of
The_Casual_Observer
Dec 2017
#26
Actually, Max Cleland had two legs and an arm blown off in Nam. And he got smeard just the same.
Hekate
Dec 2017
#39
K&R. Hannity's practically going into on-air spasms over R. Mueller's supposed transgressions.
Paladin
Dec 2017
#32
One big difference: I don't recall 30+ Dem U.S. Senators piling on with Republicans
klook
Dec 2017
#34
I am seeing plenty of of posts here that are joining the Right-wing Ratfuck
ThoughtCriminal
Dec 2017
#36