Can you say self-destruct?
Karl Rove's personal attack strategy is alive and well...but not working.
During a debate on Iowa Public Television, Republican Senate candidate Christopher Reed called incumbent Democrat Tom Harkin “Tokyo Rose” and “anti-American” because he provides “aid and comfort to the enemy.”
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Republican U.S. Senate challenger Christopher Reed accused fellow Navy veteran and Democrat Sen. Tom Harkin of aiding the enemy because of his call to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq on a scheduled timetable.
In a taped debate that aired Thursday night on Iowa Public Television, Reed called Harkin the "Tokyo Rose" of al-Qaeda and Middle East terrorism.
....Reed specifically said Harkin was "providing aid and comfort to the enemy," language consistent with the U.S. definition of treason. When asked by the moderator whether he was accusing Harkin of treason, Reed replied, ""No. I'm accusing him of giving our enemies the playbook."" [..]"
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After the debate Harkin told Reed, "You're a nice young man and I thought you had a political future ahead of you, but that just ended your political career right there."
When the R's are completely out of ideas they resort to personal attacks and buzz words.
Can't they see that this kind of "anti-American" attack is not only just wrong, it's politically suicidal -- the latest polls have Harkin leading Reed by 21 points.
Hopefully, the rest of the country will get the message. First Michelle Bachmann (a safe incumbent who blew her lead by calling Obama un-American) and now Christopher Reed. At this rate the R's will run out of candidates before they run out of money.
The R's just don't get it about Al Qaeda, who wants us to stay there in Iraq, that is their main objective -- for us to stay there and spend a trillion while our economic influence around the world disintegrates, not to mention how it weakens our military.
Republicans just can't see that the call to stay in Iraq is obviously against America's best interests...on every level. From putting more young soldiers at risk of dying, to costing us 10 billion dollars a month.
The invasion itself was exactly what Al Qaeda wanted. Not only to get an easier shot at killing Americans, but to hamstring us in ONE country while they build cells in 60 countries...all the while driving us into economic ruin.
Saddam's Iraq was weak, a non-threat, and the desire for an invasion was NOT in our best interest. It was NOT "patriotic" to push for it or back it or support it.
Getting out of Iraq is OBVIOUSLY in our best interest.
BTW -- Iraq war vets are sending this around...a video made by the "Whassup?" guys (who once worked for Anheuser-Busch (Budweiser), distributed by Cindy McCain's company).
