The leftwing turds always go ballistic if anyone makes fun of Chelsea or Obama's kids, but they feel free to publish the most insulting crap imaginable about the children of Republican candidates. How do these scumbags walk around in broad daylight?
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz slammed The Washington Post on Tuesday after the paper depicted his two young daughters as monkeys in an editorial cartoon.
In an article accompanying her drawing, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes wrote that while it is an "unspoken rule in editorial cartooning that a politician's children are off-limits," she felt that Cruz's daughters, Caroline and Catherine, were "fair game" because the Republican presidential candidate used them in a Christmas parody video
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FACT SHEET:
Bush Waged Nasty Smear Campaign Against McCain in 2000
Bush Supporters Called McCain âThe *** Candidate.â In South Carolina, Bush supporters circulated church fliers that labeled McCain âthe *** candidate.â Columnist Frank Rich noted that the fliers were distributed âeven as Bush subtly reinforced that message by indicating he wouldnât hire openly gay people for his administration.â
McCain Slurs Included Illegitimate Children, Homosexuality And A Drug-Addict Wife.
Among the rumors circulated against McCain in 2000 in South Carolina was that his adopted Bangladeshi daughter was actually black, that McCain was both gay and cheated on his wife, and that his wife Cindy was a drug addict.â
Bush Campaign Used Code Words to Question McCainâs Temper.
âA smear campaign of the ugliest sort is now coursing through the contest for the presidency in 2000. Using the code word "temper," a group of Senate Republicans, and at least some outriders of the George W. Bush campaign, are spreading the word that John McCain is unstable. The subtext, also suggested in this whispering campaign, is that he returned from 5 1/2 years as a POW in North Vietnam with a loose screw. And it is bruited about that he shouldn't be entrusted with nuclear weapons.â
Bush Supporters Questioned McCainâs Sanity.
âSome of George W. Bush's supporters have questioned Republican presidential candidate John McCain's fitness for the White House, suggesting that his five years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam drove him insane at the time.â
Bush Supporters Spread Racist Rumors About McCainâs Daughter.
Bush supporters in South Carolina made race-baiting phone calls saying that McCain had a âblack child.â The McCainsâ daughter, Bridget, was adopted from Mother Teresaâs orphanage in Bangladesh. In August 2000, columnist Maureen Dowd wrote that the McCains âare still seething about Bush supporters in South Carolina spreading word of their dark-skinned adopted daughter.â
Rove Suggests Former POW McCain Committed Treason and Fathered Child With Black Prostitute.
In 2000, McCain operatives in SC accused Rove of spreading rumors against McCain, such as âsuggestions that McCain had committed treason while a prisoner of war, and had fathered a child by a black prostitute,â according to the New Yorker.
After Rove Denied Role In McCain Whisper Campaign, Reporters Concluded He Was Behind It.
A December 1999 Dallas Morning News linked Rove to a series of campaign dirty tricks, including his College Republican efforts, allegedly starting a whisper campaign about Ann Richard being too gay-friendly, spreading stories about Jim Hightowerâs involvement in a kickback scheme and leaking the educational history of Lena Guerrero. The article also outlined current dirty tricks and whisper campaigns against McCain in South Carolina, including that âMcCain may be unstable as a result of being tortured while a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.â (DMN, 12/2/99) After the article was published, Rove blasted Slater in the Manchester, NH airport, ânose to noseâ according to one witness, with Rove claiming Slater had âharmed his reputation,â Slater later noted. But according to one witness, âWhat was interesting then is that everyone on the campaign charter concluded that Rove was responsible for rumors about McCain.â
Rove Was In Close Touch With McConnell, McCain-Feingoldâs Chief Opponent.
Senior White House adviser Karl Rove was in close contact with Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) during McConnellâs effort to fight the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Bill in the U.S. Senate. According to Newsweek, though Rove and Bush have publicly kept their distance from McConnell on the issue, âsources tell Newsweek that Rove is, in fact, in close touch with McConnell as GOP experts study the bill for hidden land mines.â
Bush Campaign Accused of Using Push Polls Against McCain.
College of Charleston student Suzette Latsko said she received a telephone call from a woman who identified herself as an employee of Voter/Consumer Research, and that the caller misrepresented McCainâs positions and asked if Latsko knew McCain had been reprimanded for interfering with federal regulators in the savings and loan scandal. Voter/Consumer Research is listed as a polling contractor on Bushâs Federal Election Commission filings; the Bush campaign has paid Voter/Consumer Research $93,000 through December 31, 1999. Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer denied the call was a push poll, but said it was important that the Republican Party remember McCainâs role in the S&L crisis.
Bush Campaign Acknowledged Making Phone Calls.
Tucker Eskew, Bushâs South Carolina spokesman, acknowledged the Bush campaign made such calls, but claimed they were not âpush polls.â Eskew added, âShow me a baseless comment in those questions.â
Bush Used Fringe Veterans Group to Attack McCain as âManchurian Candidate.â
âIn the case of Ted Sampley, the same guy who did Bush's dirty work in going after Sen. John McCain in the 2000 Republican primaries is doing the job against Kerry this year. Sampley dared compare McCain, who spent five years as a Vietnam POW, with âthe Manchurian Candidate.ââ
Sampley Called McCain a âCowardâ and a Traitor.
âSampley⌠accused McCain of being a weak-minded coward who had escaped death by collaborating with the enemy. Sampley claimed that McCain had first been compromised by the Vietnamese, then recruited by the Soviets.â