Dole is getting hammered in NC papers.

[Are_grits_groceries]

I read several NC papers posts about Dole. Boy, are most of the people pissed at her!
She lit a stick of dynamite and forgot to throw it.
Favorite post: "So many Christians...so few lions"

[4lbs]

1. Yup, here are some of the critical articles.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/politics/story/290258.html

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But even Republicans – including strategists Ed Rollins and Carter Wrenn – roundly criticized Dole's eleventh-hour re-election strategy.

“When you're making ads that say, ‘There is no God,' it usually means your campaign doesn't have a prayer,” said Alex Castellanos, a GOP consultant speaking Thursday on CNN. He's familiar with controversial ads – he created former Sen. Jesse Helms' infamous “white hands” ad suggesting opponent Harvey Gantt supported racial quotas that would take jobs from white people.

Rollins, who advised Presidents Nixon and Reagan, told CNN Dole's campaign “did something desperate, which is so despicable and so un-like Elizabeth Dole that she should be ashamed of herself. ”

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http://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/story/287109.html

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The Dole campaign stepped across a broad line, portraying Hagan as not Christian and suggesting she does not believe in God. The Dole ad shows a picture of Hagan while a woman's voice, not Hagan's, intones, "There is no God."

This is indecent. It is the modern-day version of the "white hands" ad, a lie born of Dole's desperation in a race in which she has trailed for weeks. It is also a deliberate attempt by Dole's campaign not just to distort the truth, but to shatter Hagan's admirable record as an elder for more than a decade in Greensboro's First Presbyterian Church, as a Sunday School teacher and a volunteer in her church's fundraising campaigns, worship services and community service programs.

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http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008810300340&source=rss

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The ad is not only a gross misrepresentation of the circumstances surrounding the fundraiser, the implication that Kay Hagan believes "there is no God" flies in the face of her long and close involvement with First Presbyterian Church of Greensboro, where she is an elder and has taught Sunday School.

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http://www.news-record.com/content/2008/10/29/article/editorial_dole_s_attack_on_hagan_s_faith_drives_heated_campaign_lower

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If Elizabeth Dole is still the gracious person North Carolinians have admired for many years, she'll pull her new attack ad off the air. It's worse than dishonest in its depiction of rival Kay Hagan as a "Godless American."

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Even in a campaign long ago driven down in tone by Democrats and Republicans, this is a low blow. Making false insinuations about a candidate's religious beliefs is beyond the bounds of acceptable political disagreement.

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[mdavies013]

2. The only problem is that it worked on a friend of mine...

I served on a charitable board with her and she voted for every Dem on the ballot except Hagan because her faith in God could not elect someone like that. I pointed her to Huffington Post and she watched the CNN coverage of the ad...and is pissed she got taken by one ad.

My feeling is more than enough time for Hagan's response ad and it will backfire. I heard she is losing ground in the polls.

[4lbs]

4. Yup. Polls taken after this ad aired, have Hagan increasing her lead over Dole.

CNN/Time taken 10/28 have Hagan +9 and Rasmussen taken 10/29 have Hagan +6

Polls done before the ad had the race within 4 points.

[mdavies013]

3. The only problem is that it worked on a friend of mine...

I served on a charitable board with her and she voted for every Dem on the ballot except Hagan because her faith in God could not elect someone like that. I pointed her to Huffington Post and she watched the CNN coverage of the ad...and is pissed she got taken by one ad.

My feeling is more than enough time for Hagan's response ad and it will backfire. I heard she is losing ground in the polls.

[Mudoria]

5. Sometimes the bomb thrower has one blow up in their face..

And I believe Dole just nuked herself. Opinion seems to have really turned against her for stooping to such a tactic.

[opihimoimoi]

6. Is she having a Macaca Meltdown too??? OMG...they just don't learn do they?

:puke:

[4lbs]

7. Yeah, I guess they didn't realize that implying that a longtime Sunday School teacher would be

"Godless" is totally stupid.

:rofl:

[opihimoimoi]

9. Hiraliously stupid...LOL

:toast:

[catgirl]

8. She deserves it

[vanderBeth]

10. Couldn't happen to a better person.

[Bandit]

11. I wonder if anyone has ever written anything about "Bearing False Witness"

:shrug:

[G_j]

12. Hagan's response ad

ends by stating Dole is "Bearing False Witness" against a fellow Christian.