Comments for An ugly campaign gets uglier at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.theind.com Sat, 25 May 2013 18:13:00 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/11716-an-ugly-campaign-gets-uglier#comment-27344 Sorry..I omitted the second link. Here it is: http://www.factcheck.org/2012/03/tea-partys-targets/ - Teri Welch Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:24:03 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/11716-an-ugly-campaign-gets-uglier#comment-27343 If anyone wonders why this campaign is so ugly...where one Republican attacks another in this manner...they have only to look at name of the organization, "Freedom Works". If you are unfamiliar with this group, here's a link to FactCheck.org... ( http://www.factcheck.org/2012/04/freedomworks-for-america/ ) which will provide you with a real eye-opener. For instance...the group's Super PAC Freedom Works for America also threw big money trying to deny Orin Hatch his party's nomination, and also again Sen. Richard Lugar's campaign (he lost the primary). Both campaigns had misleading information distributed during them...just like what is being done with Dr. Boustany. (http://www.factcheck.org/2012/03/tea-partys-targets/ ) They are trying to oust any moderate Republicans in favor of those who are in cahoots with the 'Tea Party'...and their ideations. If you will note...some of the same allegations made against Dr. Boustany...were made against the other gentleman mentioned (see the second link provided). One should remember...that birds of a feather flock together. There are ties between Rush Limbaugh (that pontificating pundit of prevarication...who is also an ardent misogynist..unless he's wooing the sex workers in another country. And then...there is Glen Beck...a grown man who is such a hatemonger against anything he deems 'liberal' that he dressed in leiderhosen and pranced about like a reindeer on television...all to mock the young people of America who belong to AmeriCorps. Lastly...one of the major contributors to FreedomWorks of America is also a major contributor to American Crossroads (yet another group who embraces Limbaugh) that was founded with the help of none other than the man most infamous in America for dirty politics a la the right side of things...Karl Rove. After all...Rove specializes in SuperPACs and dirty pool...and what is going on here smacks of his sort of tactics. Please...don't bother to try and tell me that FactCheck.org is a liberal front group, a communist conspiracy...or any other such John Birch Society bull hunkey. Do your own homework! One would think it's bad enough...that Louisiana is being run aground by our Gov, who touts the ALEC party line as well as the RNC one..but when one Republican employs such dirty tactics to try and oust a man...because he's not 'right wing enough'...well, that's the height of insanity! Ronald Reagan himself...wouldn't be 'right enough' for these folks! People better wake up and remember George Carlin's famous take on 'our owners'...and it ain't government, darlin's...it's corporate America. It's a BIG club...and none of us round here are in it...never will be and they certainly don't have our best interests at heart...just feathering their own nest. About this time, they've come to the conclusion that their candidate...the Mitts...ain't gonna win, so their cuttin' their losses any way they know how...by trying to shore up the Congress with candidates who march...to the party line...the corporate party line. - Teri Welch Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:19:02 +0100