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[Gatsby]

Interesting thread here:

http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=136385

[Gopher]

This sick and twisted villain that you have constructed, who engages in dirty tricks simply for the fun and the sport of it, is certainly capable of anything. So I would suggest (a) staging a false O. bin Laden threat; or (b) fabricating an actual terrorist attack, killing Americans, provoking martial law or a military coup, and then scaring the rest of the population into their camp.

[Kuros]

Hrmmm, I predict the GOP candidate:

1) eschews public funding, citing the opponent's dodging of McCain-Feingold and contributions to 527s, then

2) after using the 527s of the opponent as an excuse not to go for public financing, he asks the 527s to stop restraining themselves and then go into action.

Oh, wait a minute . . .

[Join Me]

Two words: "Secret Weapon" There is a reason that McCain and Palin have been distancing themselves from Bush and the reason is they have been holding out until the ninth hour to bring him in as a secret weapon to help them in their hour of need to seal up the election.

Bush will talk endlessly about how the success of his economic policies over the last eight years have guaranteed all Americans have a potato in the pot. McCain and Palin will be swept into the White House as a result and it will be four more years of economic prosperity under Republican incompetence!

[JMO]

Wow, those robocalls are the height of sleaze. Just when I thought this couldn't get any better.

I'm not sure what's next but I'm definitely excited about it.

[Adventurer]

The problem McCain has is he speaks of himself as a man of integrity so much and his getting help from Karl Rove types shows he cannot win simply win just debating the economy and issues. If Bush didn't use the tactics he used against Kerry, which were hardly Christian-like, then he may not have beaten Kerry. We don't know. The GOP ran a very dirty campaign. I guess that's family values campaigning for you. The GOP reminds too much of the distant past when it comes to their style of politics. It will be hard to be effective for McCain, because most people know who Karl Rove is, and they know about the Swift Boat Veterans.
They know the scare tactics.

"Fool me one, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me". A Chinese proverb.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

Well, the ultimate dirty trick would be for Bush to laungh a strike against Iran or pull OBL out from a Saudi safe-house, but it was close enough last time around that if he thought it were a viable option he probably would have done it then.

A former secretary from somewhere will likely be pulled out in the last couple of weeks to talk about either having an affair with Obama or to allege he sexually harrassed her.

Biden's draft-dodging and plagiarism at university will be dragged out and compared agaisnt McCain's bravery by bombing a heavily populated city.

But every which way the Republicans go, they still have much bigger skeletons in their closets - McCain's abandoning his wife after her injury and Palin's pregnant 17-year-old - that the Democrats haven't yet touched. That's why I think that an 'event' in the Middle East is about the only option left for the Republicans to win. And a lot of Republican senators and congressmen will be going down on the same ship as McCain if nothing happens.

[Gatsby]

Have you noticed all the inflammatory language about a vast conspiracy of "voter fraud" with suggestions from the McCain campaign that it is linked to Obama?

According to Bob Bauer, attorney for the Obama campaign, that appears to be the October Surprise. The Grand Old Pentacostal Party appears to be laying the groundwork to challenge the legality of the 2008 election, alleging widespread voter fraud. And by creating this atmosphere, they hope to scare minority voters from going to the polls, with the fear they might be arrested for voter fraud.

My guess is one goal of the GOPP campaign of fear is to scare every single person who registered through ACORN from voting, for fear of being investigated for voter fraud.

Some of these tactics were used in 2000 and 2004. And Bauer alleges that the firing of many U.S. Attorneys was tied to their refusal to prosecute these bogus charges of voter fraud. Another related tactic showed up in Florida in 2000, with police setting up roadblocks on roads leading from minority neighborhoods to the polls, under the guise of routine vehicle and sobriety inspections.

Cut the minority turnout, get minority votes thrown out, and you may have the recipe for GOPP victory.

And you thought you were a citizen in a democracy?

Keith Olbermann has an interview with Bauer:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#27245181

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#27245245

Not much in the print media, but here's one article:

[Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee]

[bangbayed]

[mises]

They will just steal it.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6533

Intrade is free money at this point.

[Kuros]

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[Kuros]

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