Spin Dry

I'm an anonymous subscriber to the official George W. Bush re-election committee emailing -- but of course. It's nice to keep tabs on what sort of crap the other side is spreading, and today's dispatch was rather amusing.

My comments appear in Blue.

While President Bush works to win the War on Terror,
Oh, sure, damn good job there, eh? Abandon efforts in Afghanistan, step into a quagmire in Iraq. Yeah, I'd call that winning...

safeguard America,
From? You mean all the new terrorists we've been recruiting in the Middle East? Or do you mean safeguard from environmental destruction wrought by corporations let loose from regulation? Kind of a failure on both fronts there.

and continue growing the economy,
Pardon me while I laugh my ass off. As I've mentioned here before, when you start at the bottom of the sea, moving upwards an inch is technically heading for the surface -- but at that pace, you'll run out of oxygen long before you see sunlight.

the Democrats have sunk to new depths in their personal attacks.
You mean -- gasp -- they've sunk as far as the Republicans? You mean Democrats have called the Bush Twins the Presidential Dogs, or said that all conservatives should be assassinated? Oh, oops, sorry. That was Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter...

John Kerry called Republicans "crooked" and a "lying group."
Which is untrue... why? Far as I can tell, Republicans are a crooked, lying group.

The Democrat Leader in the House called President Bush "an incompetent leader." And then went on to say, "In fact, he's not a leader."
And again, I say, how was Nancy Pelosi wrong when she said this? Bush is an incompetent leader; he's no leader at all. Hey, guess the truth hurts, huh?

A Democrat Senator casually referred to the "Taliban-wing" of the Republican Party.
Attribution? (BTW, that should be Democratic, not Democrat; think "Jew" vs. "Jewish," and you'll see the implied slur in that wording.) I'll bet the issue under discussion here was abortion rights; and certain elements of the Republican party would prefer nothing more than to have our women barefoot, pregnant, hooded and stupid.

Ted Kennedy remarked that "... Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management."
Again, this is wrong... why? Can you say Abu Ghraib? Why, goodness -- wasn't that one of Saddam's torture chambers that was reopened for torture... under U.S. management?

You understand what is at stake in this election;
Yeah. The destruction of the free world as we know it, vs. an effort to undo four years of incalculable damage by the non-leader nitwit squatter in the White House...

and you understand that the politics of negativity and anger are no match for the politics of optimism and hope.
Yep, and apparently something like 75% of Bush's campaign ads have been negative attacks on Kerry, while only 24% of Kerry's ads were negative attacks on Bush. Or, to put it another way (since the Repugs outspend the Dems), Bush's campaign ran more negative ads alone than Kerry's campaign ran ads in total. So, yeah -- the politics of negativity and anger are no match for the politics of optimism and hope.

And the Republicans are such a crooked, lying group, that they can't even admit to their own supporters that they're the ones spewing all the anger and negativity.