McCain campaign: Obama spreading 'smears' about Palin

Hatuey · 09-02-08, 04:02 PM

McCain camp: Questions on Palin's party a 'smear' - Yahoo! News

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ST. PAUL, Minn. - John McCain's campaign said Tuesday that rival Barack Obama's campaign was spreading "smears" about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's past political affiliations. Yet, some of Palin's previous political activities are a matter of dispute.
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At issue are claims by members of the Alaskan Independence Party that Palin was once associated with it. The party, some of whose members have advocated secession from the United States, wants to place all federal lands in Alaska under state control.

The McCain campaign released voter registration documents Tuesday dating to 1990 in which Palin lists herself as a Republican. Campaign spokesman Brian Rogers said Palin has been a registered Republican since 1982, and has never been a member of the Alaskan Independence Party.

Palin addressed the Independence Party's state convention by video earlier this year, welcoming the party to Fairbanks. She gave no indication of a current or past connection to the party.

You mean its' not okay to use guilty by association fallacies? If it's true Obama should be reprimanded.

SouthernDemocrat · 09-02-08, 04:12 PM

Republicans tend to not inherit the irony gene.

Zyphlin · 09-02-08, 04:17 PM

With all the democrats that seem to be of the belief that using a tactic that your enemy uses is perfectly and completely fine and vindicates you morally, I'm surprised they have such issues with the supposed "torture" of Al-Qaeda members.

I haven't really got into the whole AIP thing as it seemed like a lot of misinformation right off the bat. Will be interesting to see where it goes and if the Obama campaign really were trying to push out and capitalize on bad information.

Ikari · 09-02-08, 04:34 PM

The ol' pot calling the kettle black eh? Well no side is honest in this thing, both sides are going to engage in smear and yell when the other does so against them. It's just what you get when you put together two really crappy candidates.

Captain America · 09-02-08, 04:40 PM

Well, the people fussin' about the smears coming from the left have to realize that the rightwing smear machine gave the green light to these sort of tactics many years back. The hens have come home to roost. Ain't karhma a bitch? We all owe a debt of gratitude to the SwiftBoaters....NOT.

What goes around comes around I suppose.

nikitas3.com · 09-02-08, 04:54 PM

The Democrats are going to use every tactic they can to smear Palin. She is their worst nightmare - a strong woman who is not a Democrat. Andrea Mitchell of NBC even said that educated women won't vote for Palin. Talk about overt elitism.

How about Palin's hard-working blue-collar husband? Normally you would expect Democrats to embrace this union guy. But now they are dragging out a DWI from 22 years ago.

Desperation anyone? You can smell it. And their tactics are going to backfire. They already have. Obama should be 20 points ahead of McCain. Instead, he is an average about 3 points ahead and the the campaign is just beginning.

Meanwhile Obama has associated with a known terrorist and the media are trying to cover it up. These Annenberg papers are going to derail Obama when some 527s start putting out ads in Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania about his past ties to William Ayers. Don't think they aren't coming, friends. And when they hit, they are going to hit hard. Barack who?

The big fear of Democrats is that Palin will clean up the corruption in Washington. Socialism is an ideology of wealth appropriation and corruption. The heart of the Democrat party is in urban political machines which are all corrupt and everybody knows it. Some people won't say it, however.

Democrats need to try and destroy Palin because she is the Next Big Thing in American conservatism, just like they tried to destroy Reagan and Clarence Thomas. They didn't get Hillary. Now they are deathly afraid that the first woman in the White House will be... a Republican.

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jfuh · 09-02-08, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by nikitas3.com

The Democrats are going to use every tactic they can to smear Palin. She is their worst nightmare - a strong woman who is not a Democrat. Andrea Mitchell of NBC even said that educated women won't vote for Palin. Talk about overt elitism.

How about Palin's hard-working blue-collar husband? Normally you would expect Democrats to embrace this union guy. But now they are dragging out a DWI from 22 years ago.

Desperation anyone? You can smell it. And their tactics are going to backfire. They already have. Obama should be 20 points ahead of McCain. Instead, he is an average about 3 points ahead and the the campaign is just beginning.

Meanwhile Obama has associated with a known terrorist and the media are trying to cover it up. These Annenberg papers are going to derail Obama when some 527s start putting out ads in Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania about his past ties to William Ayers. Don't think they aren't coming, friends. And when they hit, they are going to hit hard. Barack who?

The big fear of Democrats is that Palin will clean up the corruption in Washington. Socialism is an ideology of wealth appropriation and corruption. The heart of the Democrat party is in urban political machines which are all corrupt and everybody knows it. Some people won't say it, however.

Democrats need to try and destroy Palin because she is the Next Big Thing in American conservatism, just like they tried to destroy Reagan and Clarence Thomas. They didn't get Hillary. Now they are deathly afraid that the first woman in the White House will be... a Republican.

Please visit my website at welcome to nikitas for more.

No, I doubt anyone is going to be visiting you website.

jfuh · 09-02-08, 05:49 PM

Interesting how since the selection of Palin, republican's are suddenly growing a moral fiber and very clearly identifying how negative character assassinations are bad. More so how amazingly they're screaming foul now.

First they question Obama's patriotism, slam Michelle for her comment, suggest that Obama is a closet radical muslim, attack Chelsea for being attacked, calling it all fair game and that any politician should be able to take such scrutiny. But now when the tables are turned and Michelle has "quesitonable" past associations and they are being brought to light, republican's seem no longer capable of accepting this "scrutiny".

PeteEU · 09-02-08, 05:54 PM

Other than the rumour that the last baby was not hers but her daughters (and yes this was smear based on no evidence), what smear are they talking about?

Pointing out facts and comments is not "smear".

And what smears are coming from Obama himself or his team?

Panther · 09-02-08, 06:15 PM

Yawn....... wake me when/if you find out that the AIP is a racist, hate filled organization that was the primary moral counselor for Palin. Or you find out she's so radical she even had them marry her and her husband.