Dirty Tricks - Democratic Underground

McCamy Taylor

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Mon Feb-25-08 11:00 PM
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Dirty Tricks

This isn't how to do them. This is how to spot them. I am writing this, because I heard an individual whom I thought was sane and who has his own TV show speculate that a photo of Obama dressed in ethnic Kenyan garments that appeared online on the Drudge Report might actually have been planted there by the Clinton Campaign, as the Drudge Report claimed.

And I had to ask myself "Am I the only person who lived through the last thirty-five years in America? Did everyone else skip straight to here from 1964, when the ultimate in 'dirty attack ads' was the in your face simplicity of Daisy dying under a mushroom cloud?"

Here is the Bible of dirty tricks, written by Pat Buchanan, Richard Nixon's speech writer and campaign strategist in 1972.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/stories/buchananmemo.htm

"COVERT OPERATIONS -- We should have as many of these down there as needed to conduct harassment exercises, and embarrassment exercises for the Democrats. They should have no connection at all with the GOP Observation Post, and should be directed out of here, as they have been in the past.

"They should be able to help put demonstrations together, get leaflets out, start rumors, and generally foul up scheduled events -- and add to the considerable confusion and chaos that will inevitably exist."

It continued:

"The preparation of attacks on one Democrat by another -- and 'endorsements' of one Democrat by another, which has to be repudiated, are examples of what can be done. Nothing should be done here, incidentally, which can seriously backfire and anything done should be cleared by the highest campaign authority. The Secret Service, it should be noted, will be all over Miami; and any activity will have to take into consideration their capabilities.

"We should guard here against a) anything which enables the Democrats to blame us for the mess which takes place in Miami Beach; b) anything which can be traced back to us and c) anything which is so horrendous as to damage us, if the hand is discovered."

Karl Rove, who is directing this year's operations, studied under Nixon's CREEPY people in 1972. He knows all the old strategies and has invented a few new ones.

Here are the rules:

1. An anonymous smear of the candidate that portrays him or her in a way that would alarm voters in the general election comes from the Republicans, even if an anonymous source says it comes from the Democratic opponent. For instance, Democratic voters do not care if Obama has Muslim ties or not. Democrats elect Muslim candidates. Only Republicans and Independents in the general election will care. These smears are put out by Republicans to create an internal division within the Democratic Party to weaken the Party's chances in the fall. This is called the Phony Democratic attack against another Democrat .

2. An endorsement from a minister who reveals the very next day that he also runs an anti-gay program comes from the Republicans. I do not care how much the minister protests that he is innocent or how much people claim that the candidate is guilty. The minister was told, blackmailed or bribed to do it to make the Democratic candidate look bad with a Democratic constituency. This is called the Bad endorsement

3. Add in Corporate media bias to make whichever candidate is doing worse in the delegate count look better to improve his or her chances in upcoming primaries and you have Operation Brokered Democratic Convention or 1968 which I have been warning that the Republicans are trying to artificially engineer since last year.