The Bush Special Olympics
Ran into this little gem at
DGCI (Democrats give Conservatives Indigestion) and felt the same thing that DGCI did.
-- "To Far. Simply to far."
This poster is being circulated by a group of Democrats in Tennessee:
It is being circulated by the office of Tennessee State Representative Craig Fitzhugh (Democrat)
From the link:
bq. Rep. Fitzhugh’s office, which is shared by the Kerry-Edwards campaign, has been distributing a flyer showing a Special Olympics child with President Bush’s face superimposed on the head of the disabled youngster. The headline reads: “Voting for Bush Is Like Running In The Special Olympics: Even If You Win, You’re Still Retarded.”
bq. “This kind of mean-spirited material has no place in an election campaign,” said Rev. Sheldon. “In my 40 years of involvement in politics, I’ve never seen anything so despicable as this flyer. Rep. Fitzhugh should not only apologize to the disabled community and to his opponent Dave Dahl, he should fire whoever is responsible for distributing this ugly attack piece.”
Rep. Fitzhugh and Dahl are running for the State House District 82. The flyer has been distributed from Fitzhugh’s campaign office in Ripley, Tennessee. His office also serves as the local Kerry-Edwards campaign headquarters.
DGCI's comments are good:
bq. It wasn't enough that the Democratic candidate for President has a dubious record of military service, or that he returned from that service to immediately go lie before Congress about the so-called "atrocities" every Vietnam vet was committing.
bq. It wasn't enough that the Democratic candidate for Vice President said that you'd have to be "crazy" to vote for George Bush, then out of the other side of his mouth alluded to all types of medical miracles that would happen if John Kerry was elected, while politicizing the death of one of America's best-loved actors, Christopher Reeve.
bq. No, now they have to resort to this.
bq. This goes beyond "mud-slinging". Far beyond. This goes beyond the boundaries of taste. This is pure political desperation, nothing more. The Democrats are so desperate to return to power that they will stop at ABSOLUTELY NOTHING... absolutely nothing at all. They'll grasp at any straw.
bq. They'll vandalize yard signs, and yards. They'll shoot holes in the windows and doors of Republican campaign centers. You've been reading the news. You know I'm not making this stuff up. You've seen their escalation over the past few months.
bq. And now this. Exploiting an image of a retarded child competing in the Special Olympics. John F. Kennedy must be rolling in his grave today to see what his party has become.
bq. They've got nearly three weeks left, and at this point nothing the Liberal Left will stoop to SHOULD surprise me. Nothing SHOULD shock me.
bq. But this does. I'm shaken to my very core that these people can behave like this, and call themselves Americans.
bq. Because, if THIS is the future of America -- if THESE are the people who think that they are qualified to lead this great nation of ours -- God help us all.
God help us all indeed. These people are delusional.
As I have said before, I am not a fan of President Bush and if the Democrats had a candidate like Zeller or Lieberman, the issue of who to vote for would be a zero-brainer. Kerry has the great hair, is tanned (not so great), speaks reasonably well (if you don't pay attention to what he is actually saying (blah, blah, blah...)) but Bush actually sees the problem for what it is, he talks about it (not so well when he is talking extemporaneously), and then goes and does what he said he would do.
Posted by DaveH at October 14, 2004 10:30 PM