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A Day At The Congressional Races
TPM Election Central —
Here's today's run-down of the Congressional races:
Right-Wing Group Jumps In Against Murtha
The right-wingers smell blood in the water in the wake of Jack Murtha's comments calling his constituents racists and rednecks, and now Vets For Freedom is going in with this ad buy of more than $50,000 against Murtha:
This ad avoids the "racist" comments, but instead features Marines saying that Murtha, a veteran of the Vietnam War, smeared and betrayed American troops when he said civilians were killed in cold blood at Haditha: "I expected to be attacked by the insurgents -- not from Congressmen at ...
Elizabeth Dole ad falsely suggests opponent Kay Hagan is ‘Godless.’
Think Progress —
Facing a close re-election race in North Carolina, Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R) recently released an ad attacking her opponent Kay Hagan, falsely accusing her of being “Godless.” The end of the ad shows a photo of Hagan while a woman yells, “There is no God!” Watch it:
The only problem is that Hagan is an elder at the First Presbyterian Church in Greensboro, NC, has taught Sunday School and accompanied youth mission trips. In a similar move, the North Carolina Republican State Executive Committee recently sent out ...
Took Godless Money
ArchPundit —
Satire and Parody are Dying a thousand deaths each
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuS342L22QI
Nasty Dole ad against Kay Hagan
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
It looks like Elizabeth Dole is running to knock off Saxby Chambliss as the Republican with the most repulsive twisting of reality to win an election. Kay Hagan is a Sunday school teacher, elder, and goes on missions with the First Presbyterian Church ...
DAY'S END ROUNDUP
News —
DAY'S END ROUNDUP Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.) is accused of dirty campaign tactics today by liberal bloggers over an ad linking her Democratic opponent to an atheist group, while a Barack Obama ad featuring Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's (R) wink draws mixed reactions from the right. AMERICAblog's Robert Arena accuses Dole of twisting reality in the hopes of winning an election, blasting the North Carolina senator for an ad that seeks to link Democrat Kay Hagan to the atheist political group Godless America PAC. Hagan is a Sunday school teacher and an elder in her Presbyterian church, Arena says, while Kevin Drum wonders if Dole is ...
North Carolina Senate Race Degenerates Into Shouting Match About Atheists
TPM Election Central —
A last-minute attack ad from Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC), who is narrowly trailing Democratic challenger Kay Hagan in all the polls, has the Hagan campaign accusing the Dole team of crossing the line from ordinary mud-slinging into legal defamation -- and the Dole campaign accusing Hagan of trying to deny her allegiance to the Godless atheist agenda.
Here's that ad, which hammers Hagan for holding a fundraiser at the Boston home of a donor who also happens to head up a group called the Godless Americans PAC, a group that stands for pretty much what you'd expect from the name: ...
North Carolina newspapers slam Dole for "Godless" ad
BlueNC - The people's think tank —
(cross-posted at dKos and The Christian Dem Home Journal)
Two of North Carolina's three biggest newspapers--the Charlotte Observer and (Greensboro) News & Record gave their verdict on Liddy Dole's disgusting ad implying that Kay Hagan doesn't believe in God. And in both cases, it's a massive fail.
First up, Hagan's hometown paper, the News & Record. It begins by saying that if Liddy is "still the gracious person North Carolinians have admired for many years," she should yank her "worse than dishonest" ad. The rest of the editorial isn't quite a three-inch-guns smackdown ...
Did this ad destroy Elizabeth Dole?
Althouse —
USA Today says: ... Kay Hagan, a little-known state senator, trounced well-known incumbent Elizabeth Dole, the wife of Bob Dole, the Republican Party's presidential nominee 12 years ago. A narrow Hagan lead in the final weeks turned into a 350,000-vote blowout after a panicking Dole began airing one of the most offensive ads in recent political history: It sought to label her opponent as "godless." Why should a religious person reject the political support of atheists? What is the argument? It makes no sense. ...
