Frequent commenter Joe Doakes, from Como Park, emails:<\/p>\n
Coleman cleared of false charges:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/ci_18274772?nclick_check=1<\/p>\n
Palin cleared of false charges:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/ci_18274772?nclick_check=1<\/p>\n
Bush cleared of Dan Rather\u2019s \u201cfalse but accurate\u201d charges<\/p>\n
http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\/weblog\/?entry=12551<\/p>\n
But hey, that\u2019s just politics as usual; both sides do it all the time, right?<\/p>\n
Really? Perhaps Dog Gone can do some of her famous fact checking and report on three major national Democrats whose careers were ruined by false charges brought by Republicans. Otherwise, it begins to look as if Democrats have established a pattern of bring false charges in order to deceive the voters and the only reason I can think for doing that is Democrats know that if voters have a reasonable choice, Democrats will lose. So they cheat.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m ready to be fact-checked.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p>\n
Como Park<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It was a well-known part of the Clinton playbook; whenever attacked, go for the Three D’s – Deny, Delay, Destroy.<\/p>\n
And since it’s always better to be on attack than on defense, it makes perfect sense to go straight to destroy first.<\/p>\n
Republicans just don’t get that.<\/p>\n
BTW, Joe – someone will chime in “what about the Swiftboaters!”. \u00a0Because to the left, “slander” is “telling the truth about a prominent Democrat”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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