I've been staying out of this

[ericcoleman]

At least in my own journal. But some things need comment

This was on the Sacramento county GOP website.



There is an article here

The important quote is from chairman of the Sacramento County Republican party, Craig MacGlashan. “Some people find it offensive, others do not. I cannot comment on how people interpret things.”

Comments

[billroper]

There may be people trying to make you afraid of Obama's Muslim name and black skin, but -- as nearly as I can tell -- it isn't the McCain campaign or the Republican party. They are trying to make people understand that what Obama is saying doesn't have a lot of congruence with his substantially more liberal voting record and history which I do believe is fair game.

When WGN Radio's Milt Rosenberg had people on the air who were critical of Obama, Obama's campaign organization twice sent out e-mails to supporters to have the station call-bombed to try to shut down the discussion. And the talking points they were armed with had very little to do with Obama and a lot to do with trying to kill the messenger -- in the normal metaphorical way, not involving actual bullets.

That, too, is the cold, hard truth. If you can't rebut them, shout them down.

[ericcoleman]

Then you aren't paying attention. How about the guy who was warming up the audience for Palin as week or so ago ... who kept talking about Barack HUSSEIN Obama? Keep pushing that middle name since it is the same as that guy who we had executed not too long ago. How about the ballots sent out with the name Barack Osama. That was just a coincidence, wasn't it? I'm sure that no one in the Republican Party had anything to do with either of those (I mean, really, the Republican candidate for VP wouldn't have someone from her own party give a speech before her). Or once again, Jeffrey Frederick, state chair for the GOP in Virginia. No, the RP has nothing to do with any of this.

As for the radio thing, yeah that's a bad thing. And I'm sure that no one in the RP has ever done that ... ever. Yeah, it's business as usual. It's a bad thing, but everyone does it. I can't find the article now, my damn swiss cheese memory, but in 2004 there was a concerted effort to call bomb a democratic call center who were trying to get people out to vote.

[billroper]

Yup, probably a bad choice to say "Hussein", because it isn't gonna help, it's just going to give people something to snipe at.

The Barack Osama thing does appear to be a coincidence according to both Democratic and Republican party officials involved. If not, then you're going to have to vilify Ted Kennedy for doing the same thing when speaking.

On the call bombing of a Democratic call center, yes, that would be wrong too. I don't know that the Republican campaign sent out an e-mail suggestion to its supporters that this would be a good thing to do.

Obama's campaign did.

[ericcoleman]

Here it is ... I just needed to frame the search correctly

http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2006/04/on_april_26_chu.html

That's a little bit worse than messing with a radio show ...

[billroper]

It is both wrong and illegal. It also has nothing to do with this election. Otherwise, I could dig back into the archives and find the records of the lovely folks in Milwaukee (at least two of whom were related to Democratic and former Democratic officials) who slashed the tires of vans that were to be used in the Republican GOTV effor in the 2004 election. This is also worse than messing with a radio show.