Sleazy Stan Matsunaka Crouches Behind Orphans and Foster Kids to Shoot at Marilyn Musgrave
Mood:  irritated
Topic: Dumb campaign ads STINK
Scene: An American soldier takes up a position in a smoldering nightime Iraqi landscape, firing back at an unseen enemy.

As a woman in the same kind of pink outfit Reese Witherspoon made notorious in "Legally Blonde 2" sneaks up on the soldier and picks his pocket, an indignant, nasal announcer denounces what he says is Marilyn Musgrave's voting record for American soldiers' benefits.

The source of the ad is identified as "Colorado Families First" in print on screen.
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There really is an outfit here in Denver, Colorado named "Families First," which:
(a) has nothing to do with Stan Matsunaka, the Democratic or Republican parties, Marilyn Musgrave, or politics in general;
(b) is an extremely valuable resource caring for kids with problematic family situations;
(c) thanks to the sleazy maneuvering of the Democrats, now is losing vital support here in Denver as a consequence of a deceptively-named front organization and massive voter reaction to the attack ad.

Gee, thanks, Democrats. The kids who won't be getting help because of your BS ad really appreciate your efforts on their behalf.

In what's nearly an anticlimax, the attack ad's figures are either outright lies or misleading in the extreme.
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This is 527 bull crap at its worst.

Stan Matsunaka, Congresswoman Musgrave's opponent is the current election cycle, gets to disavow the work of these horrible people who cruelly and stereotypically attacked his opponent, spending a LOT of money to for ads whose only purpose is to help Matsunaka get elected.

It'd almost be worth going to Hell, just to see all the Democrat campaign strategists turning slowly on spits over the eternal fires there.

Not that GOP strategists are innocent in these matters, but the Democratic National Committee has fine-tuned the art of lying in 15 and 30-second advertising spots, not to mention manipulating Congress to repeal the Constitutional right to free speech when it might be better funded by the political opposition.

Hey, union guys and college students - hope you like what people are doing with the money picked from your pockets by Democratic Party front organizations.

Notice the title change? This is why....
Mood:  irritated
Topic: Dumb campaign ads STINK
I changed the heading on my blog from:

"Dr. Ugly S. Truth dissects leftist deception"

to

"Dr. Ugly S. Truth dissects PARTISAN deception" today.

Why?

Congressman Bob Beauprez, who comes up for re-election this November, has run some of the sleaziest ads I've ever seen against his opponent Greg Salazar.

An example is one currently running in which the Smarmy Voiced Man who gets so much work these days doing voice-overs in attack ads tells us in a scandalized voice that Mr. Salazar, a former district attorney, pled out or dismissed a large portion of his DUI cases.

DUH! ALMOST ALL DISTRICT ATTORNEYS DO THAT!

This attack ad is extremely misleading, at best.

It's certainly unworthy of Congressman Beauprez, who certainly was the better man in his last election.

But ads like this would make someone who didn't know Bob Beauprez's record think very badly of him.

PLEASE, Congressman Beauprez, tell your attack ads people to stop trying to out-sleaze the Democrats. You're better than that.

You just can't out-fart a skunk, and you shouldn't even try.
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Ads like this make me wonder about this thing of Hugh Hewitt's about "always backing the Republicans."

I, personally, am a registered Libertarian, except for a brief lapse when I allowed my in-laws to arm-twist me into registering Republican.

Well, it was the late 1970s, and voting for Reagan soon became the ONLY alternative. I can't even remember who the Libertarian candidate was in the 1980 Presidential election.

Eight years later, my reason for voting Republican went away, thanks to the two-term limit.

After his inauguration, George H.W. Bush wasted no time selling about half the people who voted for him out - the gun owners, the people who read his lips and really thought he meant all that crap about "no new taxes" - all of us gullible people.

I ceremoniously burned my old Republican voter registration card and re-registered Libertarian after it became clear Bush pere didn't want my vote any longer - and haven't regretted it since.

Meanwhile, Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell were busy burning the "One Big Tent" under which so many of us who aren't monolithic social conservatives assembled to support Reagan. The results spoke for themselves in 1992 and 1996, and may be about to do so again this year.

Hugh Hewitt forgot one thing about the evangelical vote - it didn't help Bush the Elder or Bob Dole (nothing short of a military coup could have helped Bob Dole).

The obnoxious way in which their ideas are often being presented is going to deflect those crucial voters who may settle this election, if they think that the President accepts them uncritically and is apt to sell out the Constitution because of them (as happened with Leon Kass's little bio-Inquisition and the "faith-based quota" system for funding some programs).

Way to lose another one to the Dems, Dude. One Narrow Teepee doesn't work.

Party affiliation has replaced patriotism as the last refuge of the scoundrel.

If you don't have character, distinct and worthwhile ideas, or a soul - but have a remorseless, psychotic need to be in power over others, join a major political party, ANY major political party, and you'll make out just fine. John Kerry did...