Hillary Clinton's presidential run has caused some of the wiggier elements of the Republican Party to come completely unglued. From talk radio to the campaign trail, pundits, candidates and others all weave apocalyptic tales of how President Hillary will destroy us all.
But this one really takes the cake for sheer tackiness.
Roger Stone became one of Richard Nixon's "dirty tricks" squad members at the tender age of nineteen and has gone downhill ever since. He was forced to resign from Robert Dole's 1996 campaign after it was revealed that he and his wife placed ads in magazines looking for, shall we say, adult friends with very open minds. Amid the 2000 election mess, he organized the infamous GOP "Brooks Brothers riot" that shut down the Florida recount. Last year, he further distinguished himself by leaving threatening messages on the answering machine of New York governor Elliot Spitzer's 83-year-old father.
And now, he has started up a new 527 political group called Citizens United Not Timid, "to educate the American public about what Hillary Clinton really is." (Like what? An iguana, maybe?)
So what makes this one worse than others?
Well, for starters other conservatives are really mad at him. Citizens United is a less wiggy but still quite conservative outfit whose latest claim to fame is releasing Hillary: The Movie, a pseudo-documentary smear job which aims to be this year's Stolen Honor. (You may remember that flick from the 2004 campaign, in which various former American POWs claimed that John Kerry's anti-Vietnam War activities harmed them.) They are not happy at Stone's new group and have sued to get the name changed.
This is not terribly surprising once you take a closer look at the group's name. Now read the initials. Now look at the group's logo on the website.
Classy, no?
Stone reportedly admitted he couldn't think up a name with the initials B.I.T.C.H. Thank heaven for that.
So with Clinton being attacked for having the plumbing associated with two X chromosomes and Barack Obama the target of new attacks smearing him as unpatriotic, the GOP has plunged right into the sewer and has no plans to come out.
It's gonna be a long campaign.
But this one really takes the cake for sheer tackiness.
Roger Stone became one of Richard Nixon's "dirty tricks" squad members at the tender age of nineteen and has gone downhill ever since. He was forced to resign from Robert Dole's 1996 campaign after it was revealed that he and his wife placed ads in magazines looking for, shall we say, adult friends with very open minds. Amid the 2000 election mess, he organized the infamous GOP "Brooks Brothers riot" that shut down the Florida recount. Last year, he further distinguished himself by leaving threatening messages on the answering machine of New York governor Elliot Spitzer's 83-year-old father.
And now, he has started up a new 527 political group called Citizens United Not Timid, "to educate the American public about what Hillary Clinton really is." (Like what? An iguana, maybe?)
So what makes this one worse than others?
Well, for starters other conservatives are really mad at him. Citizens United is a less wiggy but still quite conservative outfit whose latest claim to fame is releasing Hillary: The Movie, a pseudo-documentary smear job which aims to be this year's Stolen Honor. (You may remember that flick from the 2004 campaign, in which various former American POWs claimed that John Kerry's anti-Vietnam War activities harmed them.) They are not happy at Stone's new group and have sued to get the name changed.
This is not terribly surprising once you take a closer look at the group's name. Now read the initials. Now look at the group's logo on the website.
Classy, no?
Stone reportedly admitted he couldn't think up a name with the initials B.I.T.C.H. Thank heaven for that.
So with Clinton being attacked for having the plumbing associated with two X chromosomes and Barack Obama the target of new attacks smearing him as unpatriotic, the GOP has plunged right into the sewer and has no plans to come out.
It's gonna be a long campaign.
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