The Republican National Committee Is a Bunch of Oxycontin-Gulping Pedophiles
Ha Ha. It's a Parody!
The process was all about getting incriminating sound bites. Bingo! Here are two of them:
"I have friends in America that are Marxists. And they support, they're working for ... Obama."
And, from a guy in a Che Guevara T-shirt responding to a question about whether there are similiarities between Che and Obama: "Yeah, because both want change."
So, let's see: The RNC goes to Europe, interviews non-U.S. citizens and cherry-picks the most alarming comments from attendees with whom, of course, Obama has no connection whatsoever. And combining the comments, invites you to view Obama as a communist fellow traveler.
There is a word for that: McCarthyism. Never mind the disclaimer "parody" that precedes the video; that's just a hedge against libel litigation along Falwell v. Hustler lines. What we have here is Swiftboating not from a proxy, but the RNC itself. And this is still July. By October, how scummy will these scumbags get?
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Scummier than you can imagine.
And well before October.
But I'm also for electing people for the right reasons. This 11th hour cynical and desperate dive into the manure pile is really sad. Let us not be frightened...and fooled...again. Please keep on
pulling back the curtain.