Push back against Hatch's latest outrageous comment

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Submitted by lucidity on Thu, 08/17/2006 - 10:19am.

Update: Pat Bagley makes a little fun of Hatch.


Our illustrious senator is at it again (as written up in the Salt Lake Tribune; story originally reported by the Tooele Transcript Bulletin):

Sen. Orrin Hatch, who continuously decries the bitter partisanship in Washington, implied this week that Democratic success in November's election could result in terrorist attacks on America.

Hatch was quoted in Tuesday's Tooele Transcript Bulletin as saying Middle East terrorists are "waiting for the Democrats here to take control, let things cool off and then strike again."

Democrats are criticizing Hatch for what they see as "ridiculous" partisan hyperbole.

"There they go again trying to use smear and fear to win in November," said Stacie Paxton, spokeswoman for the Democratic National Committee.

While Hatch now says he does not recall making the reported statement to the Tooele newspaper, it would not be the first time he tied terrorist action to Democrats seeking office.

During the 2004 presidential election, Hatch suggested al-Qaida members wanted Democratic challenger John Kerry to defeat President Bush.

Hatch sure gets misquoted a lot, doesn't he?

Sen. Orrin Hatch backpedaled Tuesday from a recent claim he made asserting that deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was supporting al-Qaida, and that "Nobody with brains" would deny the connection.

The DNC has made it easy to write a letter to the editor and push back against the Republicans' tactics of fear-and-smear. After you enter your ZIP code, click "Show more newspapers near you" at the bottom of the page to show all the major Utah newspapers.

Strategy, not misquote!

#315 On Thu, 08/17/2006 7:10pm Larry Bergan said,

Wesley Clark does a webcast that included an interview with voting fraud expert and author Mark Crispin Miller. According to him, Orrin Hatch is just carrying out Republican strategy!

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Interviewer:

In general Bush and the Republican party are polling in the thirties so how would they even justify a win this time. What could they say?

Mark Crispin Miller:

The race will tighten up, because races always do, but the republicans will go all out to depict the Democrats as traitors, terrorists and so on. It will be extremely ugly. That will unfortunately help make the race get tighter or at least will help make the seeming tightening of the race seem understandable. If it doesn't tighten up enough, I'm not just guessing this is what will happen, this is what I know will happen from conversations with people who have talked to Republican strategists. If the Republicans should lose the senate or the house, they will seize on the closest races, as many of them as they need, to make up the difference, and they will go hog wild on the issue of election fraud...It sounds...you know...

Interviewer:

..I've heard this too..

Mark Crispin Miller:

...Pure Orwell, but of course that's what they always do. They will basically swift boat the Democrats by charging them with the very crimes that the Republicans themselves have long since perfected.

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Since the Democrats have REFUSED to highlight voting fraud in the Repubican party for five years, the strategy will work. The television, radio, and print media in this country are nothing but an arm of the Republican owned government and the Democrats have no megaphone to refute it.

Ugly isn't the word. I would call it hideous!

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Give em hell, Larry! Let's

#316 On Fri, 08/18/2006 11:31pm emoticon said,

Give em hell, Larry!

Let's spread the new Democratic simplistic slogan..."Fear and Smear!"

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