Thursday, February 21, 2013

Why Does The GOP Use Lies To Win When They Know It Doesn't Work?

Why Does The GOP Use Lies To Win When They Know It Doesn't Work?
I'm sorry but the Tea Party and its Daddy the GOP have become cheap and insignificant. ‘And Why might you ask, have I come to this conclusion? Simply because their scruples have become so small you can drown them in a bathtub. Upon reading the below article (and numerous others exposing their dirty deeds) I have deduced that the leaders in both these groups are just plain lazy. It appears it is too damn hard for them to just roll up their sleeves and tell their sycophants, let’s get out and win over the hearts and minds of the people, while making America, once again a beacon of hope. HARD WORK? YOU BETCHA! So instead, they decide to cheat, lie and suppress votes in order to win. The below article gives example of the GOP LIE TO WIN strategy and how it is hurting them. thinkingblue
PS: On second thought, maybe it’s not laziness; maybe they just don’t know how to win without cheating.
'Friends of Hamas' and Why the GOP Can't Win the Internet
By Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America
20 February 13
If you want to appreciate how vast the digital divide is that historically separates conservative failures and liberal accomplishments online, and if you want to add some context to the recent New York Times Magazine feature article on how Republicans' chronic online shortcomings dim the party's electoral chances, just look at how the two camps were marking their time in recent days.
Working with Republicans on Capitol Hill trying to block Chuck Hagel's nomination to become Secretary of Defense, Breitbart's Ben Shapiro recently posted a report suggesting Hagel had allegedly received "foreign funding" over the years from a terrorist-friendly group called Friends of Hamas, but that the payments were being kept secret. The allegation served as part of the right wing's relentless campaign to smear Hagel as being anti-Israel.
Fox Business host Lou Dobbs, National Review columnist Andrew McCarthy, and AM talker Hugh Hewitt all hyped Breitbart's conspiratorial narrative about Hagel's nefarious connections with Friends of Hamas.
Slight problem. Last week, Slate's David Weigel detailed how Friends of Hamas doesn't actually exist. And as New York Daily News reporter Dan Friedman explained, he unwittingly started the Friends of Hamas rumor when he posed the Hagel question to a GOP aide in the form of "an obvious joke." According to Friedman, he asked about both Friends of Hamas and the "Junior League of Hezbollah," and thought that the "names were so over-the-top, so linked to terrorism in the Middle East, that it was clear I was talking hypothetically and hyperbolically." More Here: http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/16124-friends-of-hamas-and-why-the-gop-cant-win-the-internet

posted by thinkingblue at 10:47 AM