RNC Head Gillespie Admits "Clinton Death List" Was a LIE

[MrBenchley]

Yeah, he's trying to pretend that any criticism of the Chimp is wrong...but check out this throwaway...

"National Republican Party Chairman Ed Gillespie acknowledges that while Democrat Bill Clinton was president, some Republicans went too far in their attacks.
Take, for example, the oft-repeated accusation that Clinton was involved in the death in 1993 of then-aide Vince Foster, which authorities ruled was a suicide.
"Bill Clinton did a lot of bad things, but he didn't murder anyone," Gillespie said in an interview Friday, during a stop here to promote his party and its policies. "

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/columnists.nsf/Jo+Mannies/334C0747491C234C86256E2000182CA0?OpenDocument&Headline=Harsh+attacks+are+driving+voters+to+the+GOP,+Republican+chief+says

How many taxpayer MILLIONS did Dan Burton, Robert Ray and Ken Starr waste on OFFICIAL Congressional investigations of that?

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

1. kick

I will be copying and pasting this for weeks :)

[MrBenchley]

8. Me too...

Of all the fucking nerve....

[hatrack]

2. Gosh, Ed, how big-hearted and non-partisan of you!

Wow, ten years after the fact, he's willing to admit that "some Republicans went too far" in their hard-on for Clinton.

Well color me astonished!

[MrBenchley]

6. Don't you love the "fringe" remark?

There were two seperate Congressional inquiries replete with wild allegations....

Guess this humhole Gillespie is admitting his entire damn party is all fringe and no sane folks.....

[arcane1]

3. this asshole compares "miserable failure" to MURDER??

:wtf:

snip-

Gillespie's point was that such down-and-dirty Republican blasts against Clinton came from "fringe" folks, not the GOP establishment. He contrasts that with what he views as over-the-line attacks now by Democratic leaders, union activists and aligned groups like MoveOn.org as they target President George W. Bush.

"They should be fringe, but they're not," Gillespie said. He singled out former Vice President Al Gore's assertion that the president is "a moral coward" beholden to special interests, and Democratic presidential hopeful Richard A. Gephardt's repeated dubbing of Bush's tenure as "a miserable failure."

"Presidential candidates never used to say things like that," Gillespie said. "I think there's something not healthy going on."


:eyes:

[MrBenchley]

7. He's right.....

"there's something not healthy going on."
It's called the pathological right wing.

[DODI]

4. Fringe -- what the heck is he talking about!!

I am so angry right now I can't even respond to this! The best I can do is -- what a bunch of babies! But that would be an insult to babies!

[SlainteMhath]

5. Too late

The damage is done. Any reminder of it is a reminder of the ruse. I consider that to be a negative of Democratic favour.

[booksenkatz]

9. OK, but as for the BUSH FAMILY death list...

the jury is still out.................

[buycitgo]

13. you mean this?

http://www.bushbodycount.com

this is bitchkitty's creation....a frequent poster here

[Karenina]

24. Didn't Babs say something like

'critisize my kids and you're dead?' And of course her "beautiful mind" could not be bothered by the deaths of others. No pictures or nasty numbers, please.

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. What a self-serving prick. He just admitted that the Clinton Witchhunt

was politically motivated. Why else would he have kept quiet all these years? What's wrong Gillespie? Did you just figure out that your man and party can't withstand the same level of scrutiny? Well pucker up, 'cuz here we come!

[arcane1]

12. how many millions of dollars? How many FBI agents?

meanwhile, Osama plotted and laughed with glee...

[SideshowScott]

27. PREACH ON BROTHER!

How many fed man hours wasted trying to get Clinton on ANYTHING?
How many Tax Dollars wasted trying to get Clinton on anything?
How many FBI agents to invesgate a hummer?
How many republicans in the senate turned down Clintons request for more funding to terrorist preventon?
all the while there was a madman who wanted to kill as many americans as possible......

[Qutzupalotl]

11. And Fallwell sold videos saying Clinton murdered people,

knowing it was all a lie. He profited from another's maligning.

Mr. Thou-Shalt-Not-Bear-False-Witness should look in a freakin' mirror!

[David Zephyr]

20. You Beat Me to Posting This Point, NRK.

And thanks for doing so! :thumbsup:

[terrisel]

14. Interesting to Admit now-Must Be self-serving

Is he trying to innoculate bush and cheney against charges that they have killed ?

Sounds like an attempt to Say "There were such rumors About Clinton too and they were not true either".

Or maybe they need Clinton now......I wonder why?......testimony to 9/11 Commission?

[snippy]

19. It is part of the republican strategy to define the democratic party

as an angry party offering nothing positive. The strategy was described in a memo sent to republican politicians, strategists and consultants, party activists, obedient media and republican pundits by Gillespie a few months ago. This line in the article is an exact quote from that memo:

"As the Democratic Party gets smaller, it becomes increasingly more liberal, elitist and angry, and as it becomes increasingly more liberal, elitist and angry, it gets smaller."

Gillespie uses this line often.

[snippy]

15. This needs to be used to anger the republican base.

The DNC needs to target every Clinton critic who can plausibly fall within Gillespie's characterization and make sure that those critics know that they have been accused by Bush's RNC chairman of going too far. Millions of people in the republican base hate Clinton more than they like Bush. Millions more in the republican base are always warily waiting to be betrayed so that they can have a new target for their insatiable hunger to hate. This could really hurt the republican party if an ugly fight developed within its ranks.

[arcane1]

16. indeed, there would be far LESS love for Bush on the right..

if it weren't for the Clinton hate. Bush is NOT Clinton and they would willingly follow him into hell for that very reason alone

[BeFree]

25. Yeah, they all need to repent

Gillespie is the head of this group, right? Well, if we are to forgive and forget, then he should get each and every one of those pukes who said Clinton killed Foster to come down front and repent.

Otherwise, no deal. We'll be coming at ya, fighting fire with fire.

[mrdmk]

17. I am Shocked, just Shocked!

What a gamble, no news here. But what about Ken Starr and One Hundred Million Dollar$. Anybody here willing to pay $100,000,000.00 for a BJ
:party:

[imax2268]

18. You know...

I can't begin to say how many times that "death list" was thrown up in my face during a "debate" with a freeper...oh this is grand...

I to will be copying and pasting this for weeks...RNC...Lying fucking bastards...!

[MikeG]

21. Next Question: When will they stop calling him a rapist?

[peacetalksforall]

22. So now watermelon head is a member of the fringe?

Fringe! Imagine! Can someone name every person on a high level that was involved in the claim about Bill or Hillary having Foster killed. We need to know who the fringe included. Burton was not fringe. Anyone know the others that were on an equally high level?

[deacon]

23. schoolyard bullies: it's all right for them, but don't do it to me

name a dem candidate and they have a label for them.

God forbid Wimp II gets a label :)

[SideshowScott]

26. Really? Ya think?

Wow the way that the GOP went after Clinton was one of the most embarrassing things ive ever seen in American poitics..No wait I was wrong..
The way that the GOP has hijacked the media and is letting bush get away with anything is the most embarrassing thing ive ever seen in American poetics.
Oh well at least Bill got results..No matter what the GOP did.Thats one thing that Bush can never do no matter how many news organizations are up his butt

[Old and In the Way]

28. Let's get a $70MM and Independent Prosecutor and

conduct an investigation into what this administration knew about 9/11.

3000 Americans died, but Mr. Ed seems to have no interest in finding out what this administration might have known in advance....wonder why?

[ellie]

29. Someone needs to stroll over to freeperville

and throw those dogs this bone. Then, step back and watch the feeding frenzy. I would, but I would have a weak stomach.

[Orrin_73]

30. Those pigs knew it from the beginning

that everything they said was a lie but they didn't bother to say/admit it during Clintons presidency. Hypocrits!!!!

kucinich.us

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sharpton2004.org

Tom DeLay:"I challenge anyone to live on my salary" <$158,000 a year>

[lancdem]

31. Notice he still said Clinton "did a lot of bad things"

whatever that means. :eyes:

[louis-t]

32. "holding up signs and shouting down the president"

Evil traitors! How dare they hold up a sign! How dare they question our Great Leader! Damn Hippies! Gillespie is so laughably phony. So not believable. I would be embarrassed.

on edit: I am embarrassed-for our country.