Republican Priorities: Their Issues This Cycle

By Big Tent Democrat, Section Elections 2006
Posted on Sat Nov 04, 2006 at 03:20:18 PM EST
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How bad is it for the GOP this cycle? Consider this, the issue being pushed by the extreme Right Wing blog Red State is that Democratic candidate for Congress in the 9th district of Indiana, Baron Hill, was not the official 100 yard dash record holder in high school as he claims, because he did not run his record dash in the state finals. I kid you not:

Hill’s campaign biography said he set the dash record while at Seymour High School and continued to hold it. But the Indiana High School Athletic Association lists someone else as the record holder for running a time of 9.5 seconds during the state finals of the 1965-66 school year. According to Seymour High School, Hill ran a 100-yard dash in 9.5 seconds at a 1970 track meet. But because it was not part of the state finals, the IHSAA does not count it as tying the record.

Lies about war? Who cares? But whether the man was the OFFICIAL recordholder (there is no dispute he ran a record tying time) is a disqualifying issue. The Republicans are beyond pathetic this cycle.

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Lies about war? (none / 0) (#1)
by jarober on Sat Nov 04, 2006 at 05:36:15 PM EST

These are what you call lies:

-- missed intelligence (missed by the entire world, I might add)
-- policies you disagree with

"Lies about war" is a convenient catch phrase, but the phrase itself is disingenuous. When you have an actual argument, get back to me.

: Atta in Prague (none / 0) (#2)
by Big Tent Democrat on Sat Nov 04, 2006 at 06:39:25 PM EST

: Disingenuous (none / 0) (#9)
by Edger on Sun Nov 05, 2006 at 11:16:15 AM EST

When you have an actual argument, get back to me.
So you can ignore it and slink away, as you did when Dadler deconstructed your comments?
Were you hoping no one knew what they were talking about, or that everyone was too dumb to see though you?
jarober, why do you think Bush and the GOP are in the shape they are in, anyway?

interesting.............. (none / 0) (#3)
by cpinva on Sat Nov 04, 2006 at 07:14:36 PM EST

last time i checked, a record can occur in any officially sanctioned meet, not just in the state meet. same thing with world records, they needn't be achieved only at the olympics to count.

this is almost as pathetic as marylyn musgrave believing that gay marriage is the single most important issue of our time. who elects these morons?

Re: Atta in Prague (none / 0) (#4)
by jarober on Sat Nov 04, 2006 at 10:57:02 PM EST

Find me a citation of the administration pushing that story

The theory that Atta was there is generally considered to be false, but that wouldn't equate stating that he did to a lie.

Thanks for playing, Big Tent.

: Citation for Jarober (none / 0) (#6)
by Dadler on Sat Nov 04, 2006 at 11:37:28 PM EST

J,
You can't honestly be failing to recall that Cheney pushed this claim HARD, that he was THE man in the administration for pushing this claim. It was one of his duties, to keep slinging that b.s. line.

how about the lie................... (none / 0) (#5)
by cpinva on Sat Nov 04, 2006 at 11:20:45 PM EST

of saddam's functioning nuclear weapons program, which no intelligence agency, in the entire world believed. in fact, our very own energy dept. issued a report debunking it, long before we went to war over it. a report that was conveniently ignored, by the administration, because it failed to comport with their desired agenda.

geez, why am i bothering wasting valuable time, time i'll never recover, rehashing old news with a twit?

Mother Jones... (none / 0) (#7)
by jarober on Sun Nov 05, 2006 at 12:25:22 AM EST

Mother Jones doesn't count as a citation. Also, parts of the Czech govt have stood behind that theory, which tells me that it's possible. Highly unlikely, given other evidence, sure - it looks to me like it didn't happen. However, believing a minority position is not the same as lying.

Next.

Mother Jones Doesn't Count? (none / 0) (#8)
by Dadler on Sun Nov 05, 2006 at 08:16:20 AM EST

Why, because they actually practic free American critical journalism? Then Google Atta Cheney Prague, you'll find plenty. You said they never pushed the story, you were outta your mind because Cheney's job WAS to push it. Your memory is poor, to say the least. And we're not talking that long ago.

Suggesting this isn't an example of the administration pushing lies long after they're exposed, well, I'd say we have a disagreement of chasmic proportion. Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11, less than nothing, the idea they would have flies in the face of basic logic -- that is, were this administration to have any. Had they actually cared about identifying and focusing on the real problem, perhaps we'd be tallking differently, but they took Iraq, made it one of their deluded and distracting wet dreams, and now have given the Iraqi people chaos and murder and civil war -- and not an ounce of security.