Remember the election day story about tires being slashed on republican vans? Five democratic staffers have been charged with the crime...

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/01/24/congresswomans_son_four_others_charged_with_slashing_republican_van_tires_on_election_day?mode=PF

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That was for the people in the article, not for posting the article!

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Not to be undone by recent revelations and court actions concerning the jamming of Democratic Party phones on election day in 2002 in New Hampshire. Republican paid staffers, led by President Bush's former New England campaign chairman, jammed Democratic phone banks on election day...
link to story (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/07/28/politics1525EDT0647.DTL)

Not to be undone by recent revelations and court actions concerning the jamming of Democratic Party phones on election day in 2002 in New Hampshire. Republican paid staffers, led by President Bush's former New England campaign chairman, jammed Democratic phone banks on election day... link to story (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/07/28/politics1525EDT0647.DTL)
That didn't cost anyone a dime. How much do you think replacing tires on 25 vans cost???

Remember the election day story about tires being slashed on republican vans? Five democratic staffers have been charged with the crime...

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/01/24/congresswomans_son_four_others_charged_with_slashing_republican_van_tires_on_election_day?mode=PF
Un-farking-believable

That didn't cost anyone a dime. How much do you think replacing tires on 25 vans cost???

So what if it didn't cost a dime? The fact is that these Republicans and these Democrats were intent on keeping each other from mobilizing voters and that is something that should outrage all of us. The only way for anything to be accomplished to stop this sort of underhanded tactics is for people to realize that not only does the other party do it, but so does your own. Let's elevate the political discourse in this nation and stop throwing stones in glass houses.

So what if it didn't cost a dime? The fact is that these Republicans and these Democrats were intent on keeping each other from mobilizing voters and that is something that should outrage all of us. The only way for anything to be accomplished to stop this sort of underhanded tactics is for people to realize that not only does the other party do it, but so does your own. Let's elevate the political discourse in this nation and stop throwing stones in glass houses.
Agreed. I'm gonna throw my stones at Babs Boxer. :killingme And it does matter that it didn't cost anyone $$ tying up phones. Property destruction shows how maliscious the far left really is. :whip:

Milwaukee County District Attorney E. Michael McCann, a Democrat "We asked the FBI knowing that this probably wouldn't be their first priority," he said

In other words the Democrat responsible for bringing the perpetrators to justice found a way to delay the investigation. Sounds like a conspiracy to avoid bringing the Democrat-brats to justice to me.

The only way for anything to be accomplished to stop this sort of underhanded tactics is for people to realize that not only does the other party do it, but so does your own. Let's elevate the political discourse in this nation and stop throwing stones in glass houses.

RRaley,
I was just thinking today that we hadn't heard from you in some time. Finals? Glad to know you're still around.

The best way to get beyond the dirty tricks is for the losing side to get over it and not continue to villify the winning team for the next four years. We can think Prince Albert for the bitterness that characterized the 2004 presidential campaign. It started with the Florida recount, recount, recount, recounts (read At Any Cost) and continued with the countless anti-Bush blogs and web-fora.

This set the tone for this last campaign. Republicans responded to Democrats who responded to Republicans. Folks have to get over it!

The only way for anything to be accomplished to stop this sort of underhanded tactics is for people to realize that not only does the other party do it, but so does your own.

Exactly how is that realization suppossed to lead to a stopping of these actions? More likely, the outcome would be more of these actions as one side attempts to justify their bad behavior by highlighting another group's even worse behavior. Then you can add human nature to the mix as one side tries to one-up the other.

Here's how you solve the problem, and amazingly I'll recommend a Democratic fix: Make these sorts of crimes Hate crimes, and punish the guilty accordingly. I mean it's obvious that these Democrats hate Republicans, so their assault on property must be a hate crime right? So sentence the tire slashers to twenty years in prison and send a message that crimes of this sort won't be tolerated.

RRaley,
I was just thinking today that we hadn't heard from you in some time. Finals? Glad to know you're still around.

The best way to get beyond the dirty tricks is for the losing side to get over it and not continue to villify the winning team for the next four years. We can think Prince Albert for the bitterness that characterized the 2004 presidential campaign. It started with the Florida recount, recount, recount, recounts (read At Any Cost) and continued with the countless anti-Bush blogs and web-fora.

Yes, the midterm season kept me away for awhile, but I'm back.

I agree that the losing side has to get over it and I realize that some Democrats have a problem with that, but I hardly believe that this is something that only occurs to Democrats. I am sure that if President Bush had lost this election, many activist Republicans (especially bloggers) would refuse to get over it too.

:tantrum I thought this was going to be about cooking in the backyard.

:tantrum I thought this was going to be about cooking in the backyard.
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