Let's make a list of what the desperate Repugs are saying

[caledesi]

because * is nosediving in the polls and these thugs are grasping at anything to recoup.

My favorite: "Don't criticize this Administration because it helps and empowers the terrorists."

Purpose: To shut us up.

After the reaming of * for the past couple of months from Dems and the candidates, "the horse is out of the barn" and there ain't nothin' they can do about it.

So folks, anyone else have a favorite "talking point" that is being spewed and its purpose?

We could have fun with this one!

[maxomai_vs_rove]

1. The Flip-Flop Lie

The Big Lie that I see coming from the media is that Dean flip-flops on everything.

I'll grant them environmental and labor standards (American vs. International). But the rest is hogwash. Every time I've heard him speak (he puts his speeches on the Web as MP3s) he says pretty much the same thing, to every crowd. Hell, he didn't even change his message for the Wall Street Journal. If anything, he's the *most* consistent candidate I've seen so far.

[Avalux]

2. Iraq is the center of the war on terrorism

we are fighting terrorists there, instead of here on our own soil.
__________

I am particularly fond of that one. :mad:

[caledesi]

6. Yeah, love how NO ONE is buying that one! <along w/ the others)

They are so desperate, it's getting almost funny!

[RobertSeattle]

3. Democrats are being shrill

(While they ignore the past 10 years of shrill fromt the right)

[caledesi]

7. Yes, since they took off their pink tu-tus, they are shrill!

I guess they thought the Dems were going to be mute and cower forever. Not! I credit Howard Dean with leading the way on this one. They must HATE him. Well, what am I saying...as the poster above observed...they are trashing him big time.

[Cocoa]

13. Sharpton's answer at the debate was awesome

Juan Williams asked him if the criticism was hate speak and Sharpton answered 'no' with authority. Williams looked absolutely cowed.

[SavageWombat]

14. Yep

Gotta give Reverend Al credit for keeping the debates lively. He knows who the enemy is in this election.

[JPace]

18. Al is funny.....

he has a fast and sharp sense of humor.
The debates would be much duller without him.
He is also a very stright shooter and doesn't
try to play things both ways.

[sandnsea]

19. And undermining the President

when the country is at war 'on terror'.

[tabasco]

4. BUSH - the strong & decisive leader

Who wisely and courageously attacked Iraq, the people responsible for 9-11.
Purpose: To show how "strong on defense" Bush is, and how weak the Democrats are.
Reality; Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11, and the war in Iraq has sapped massive resources from the war on the real terrorists. A wiser President would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and not launched ill-conceived, unnecessary wars elsewhere.

[caledesi]

8. Ah, another one that will fall flat bec Dems are starting to articulate

more and more that SH had nothing to do w/ 9/11 and hey, what about Saudi Arabia? Another whammy.

Almost 70% of the American peeps still believe SH & Al Qaeda together were involved. This must change. We have to keep repeating the TRUTH.

[Webster Green]

5. The Democratic canditates offer no solutions....

to the problems facing our country. Bullshit! They have a solution. Get rid of ChimpCo Inc.

[caledesi]

9. Ew...forgot about that one. That one really pisses me off.

as well as the "the Liberals are just Bush haters."

He doesn't have enough gravitas to be hated.

It's the ruination of this great country that we hate.

[disgruntella]

10. Well, where would we be if GORE was president?

What-iffing: refuge of the truly desperate.

Also bringing up the Clintons (Bill, Hillary, Chelsea, Roger, George) -- that seems to be a freeper favorite

[caledesi]

15. Just what is the obsession with Hillary? Please, someone....

I have trolled Freeperville and the obsession w/ her is unreal. They all think she is going to run. On and on and on about her...What is the deal here?

[disgruntella]

17. Fear of intelligent women

who won't take any sh!t. That's the only explanation I can think of.

[caledesi]

22. I guess that's it...but I think the obsession is pathological.

Big surprise there, right?

[GumboYaYa]

11. We have not had another terrorist attack

b/c of Bush's decisive action.

Ohhhhh, I feel gross just typing that lie. I hear it all the time now.

[caledesi]

16. OMG! That is the most outrageous one! ROTFLMAO!

[Sophree]

12. The Democrats are politicizing 911

By criticizing Our Leader George W. Christ for suppressing the EPA air quality report.

:eyes:

As if they haven't been politicizing 911, capitalizing on it for their own personal gain from day 1.

[caledesi]

23. Hey, 9/11 was *'s trifecta..remember? That bastard.

[Qutzupalotl]

20. Tax cuts stimulate the economy

Bull. They might help Neiman-Marcus and Lexus, but not much else. The rich aren't launching new businesses and hiring new workers. It's voodoo economics, as Bush's father once said. Trickle down. Didn't work in the 80's, isn't working now. How does that quote go? "Doing the same thing and expecting different results is the definition of insanity."

The federal government has shifted the burden of supporting public schools to the states. The states are unable to pass a tax increase, leaving the schools strapped.

Tax cuts and loopholes for corporations are even worse. Corporations make their stock price go up by laying off workers, who are now doing the jobs of two or three people--making "productivity" go up, at least on paper. The less that corporations pay in taxes, the more us insignificant people have to pay.

I'd like to see Grover Norquist's ego shrunk down so small that he drowns himself in the bathtub.

[caledesi]

21. Well, we are seeing lst-hand that they don't work.