Ed Gillespie Attack Ad

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do think reasonable objective minds can see the hypocrisy of these posters who are throwing insults and making sweeping generalizations about large groups of people who differ from them in their political affiliations and voting choices.

Just like there were bad guys on both sides in Charlottesville, right?

[Anonymous]

Virginia is for Haters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These threads - the entire Political Forum, in fact - only solidify my decision to never vote for a Democrat again. What a bunch of sanctimonious hypocrites. No thank you.

That's nice.

ps - no one GAF.

But you do GAF. Many Fs, actually.

Why on earth would we give AF about a bunch of deplorables? I'd rather lose another election than cater to selfish assholes, racists, misogynists, xenophobes, etc. The Rs can have you. All of you. So nicely packaged up in your basket.

...and with the continued show of disdain and delusion, you'll get your wish.

LOL. It's not like you'd vote D anyway. So keep bitching if you want, but it just makes you look pathetic. "Boo hoo. Poor us."

Wow. Amazing how insistent liberals are on spewing venom at anybody who didn't vote for Hillary. Don't cry when you lose the next election, too. (And WE are the idiots?)

Yes, you poor poor victim.

So you support D policies and only voted R because the Ds were too mean to you? Please. You support R policies and vote R. Quit making up this drama to make yourself some kind of victim. PATHETIC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do think reasonable objective minds can see the hypocrisy of these posters who are throwing insults and making sweeping generalizations about large groups of people who differ from them in their political affiliations and voting choices.

Just like there were bad guys on both sides in Charlottesville, right?

Yes, there were. Both sides were bad. Nazis on the right and commies on the left. Too bad they all couldn't just cancel each other out like matter and antimatter. Just a big boom and then nothing.

[Anonymous]

Well, it does appear that the Northam campaign did fund this horrible attack ad on Gillespie.

Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ralph Northam’s campaign is being accused of playing a role in a controversial ad that was pulled last week, as disclosure forms reveal ties to the political group behind the incendiary commercial – though the Democrat’s campaign denies it.

But disclosure forms suggest the Northam campaign may have been involved, as the Northam campaign reported a $62,729.60 "in-kind" contribution in the form of "media" from the Latino Victory Fund shortly after the ad came out. Under Virginia law, a media contribution is "in-kind" only if the campaign worked with the outside group on the ad. Phil Kerpen, president of free-market think tank American Commitment, first discovered the disclosure.

He points to Virginia law, which says a campaign must have direct involvement in a project for it to be an "in-kind" contribution: "...the candidate or an agent of the candidate's campaign committee must have either expressly requested or suggested... that the expenditure be made," a Virginia government guidebook describing the law reads, "or... have material involvement in devising the strategy, content, means of dissemination, or timing of the expenditure.”

Could the Northam campaign have simply made the disclosure by mistake, thinking they had to do so because they worked with the group in other ways?

"No chance they filed by mistake -- they would have said so and corrected immediately," Kerpen said, decrying the ad as “race-baiting.”

Latino Victory Fund did not respond to questions about any coordination with the Northam campaign.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/11/06/virginia-governors-race-forms-suggest-dems-campaign-involved-in-race-baiting-ad-despite-denials.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The ad in question was not paid for by Ralph Northam, the candidate, but rather a 3rd party group.

It appears that this statement is false. Northam’s campaign did fund this ad, despite their denials.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the gist of the ad from the above link.

"A young Latino boy runs for his life from a speeding black pickup with a Tea-Party license plate, a Confederate Flag flapping in the wind, and a faceless white man behind the wheel. Each time the truck guns its engine, the boy runs past another minority who sprint along in terror. Eventually they’re trapped in an alley without an exit. The kids are as good as dead because obviously being Republican means being bloodthirsty."

Wow. That is terrible. And way over the top.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the gist of the ad from the above link.

"A young Latino boy runs for his life from a speeding black pickup with a Tea-Party license plate, a Confederate Flag flapping in the wind, and a faceless white man behind the wheel. Each time the truck guns its engine, the boy runs past another minority who sprint along in terror. Eventually they’re trapped in an alley without an exit. The kids are as good as dead because obviously being Republican means being bloodthirsty."

Wow. That is terrible. And way over the top.

So the (would-be) Democratic governor of Virginia is accusing those who plan to vote for his opponents racists. And he thinks that kind of animosity toward approximately half of Virginia's voters is an attractive trait in its governor?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Based on people I know personally, the more strenuously someone objects to the deplorable label, the more overtly racist they are.

Based on people I know personally - and here on DCUM - the more recklessly someone throws around the word "racist," the more hypocritical and sanctimonious they are.

In my kids' elementary and middle schools, they have had to ban the word "racist" as it has become such a constant accusation, exclaimed in any and every situation, most of which have nothing to do with racism. The word has become meaningless and honestly, a joke, because of its misuse and overuse.

Wait a second. They do not let children in an ES and an MS say the word racist? Seriously? Where do you live, in Alabama? Not to mention that that is likely illegal.

Okay, I exaggerated when I said it was banned. The teachers in my kids' classes, last year and now again this year, have had to tell kids to stop shouting our "RACIST!" all the time as it had become obnoxious and out of control.

Maybe try sticking to the truth. People will be a lot less likely to go

This is good advice and I'll take it. Similarly, if liberals would stop calling every conservative a racist, people would be a lot less likely to Half of all Americans (give or take) are not racists.

+1,000
You'd think by now liberals would have learned their lesson, but apparently not.

Republicans are all about "teaching lessons", huh?

Don't be poor.
Don't be educated.
Don't get pregnant.
Don't be brown.
Don't be anything but Christian.
Don't believe in science.

You will sure teach us all.