Sunday, February 17, 2008

JERALYN MERRITT: REPUBLICANS WILL ATTACK ONE (AND ONLY ONE) DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE AS A PINKO!

That seems to be the point of this post, which quotes Rupert Murdoch's Times of London:

The TimesOnline says the right wing is set to attack Barack Obama s the ultimate "liberal socialist" in the mold of George McGovern.

LEADING Republicans believe they can trounce Barack Obama in the presidential election by tarring him as a shady Chicago socialist. They are increasingly confident that his campaign could collapse by the time their attack machine has finished with him.

Sample attack:

Obama has the voting record of a "hard-left" socialist, according to [Grover]Norquist, from his time in the Illinois state legislature to the US Senate. He was recently judged by the nonpartisan National Journal to have the most liberal voting record in 2007 of any senator....

And that would never happen with Hillary Clinton -- would it?



Number of Google hits for "obama socialist": 415,000.
Number of Google hits for "clinton socialist": 489,000.

Number of Google hits for "obama communist": 439,000.
Number of Google hits for "clinton communist": 517,000.

I'd say it's more or less a wash. I'd say the only Democratic ticket that wouldn't provoke this line of attack would be the dark-horse Joe Lieberman/Zell Miller ticket.

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