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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDubya's return to SC...a reminder of them good ol' days of McCain's "illegitimate black baby"
Thanks for the Memories, South Carolina
The arrival of George W to campaign there on Jeb!'s behalf surely smacks of deep desperation. And it makes us wonder just how long we will all be trapped inside the Bush Dysfunctional Family Follies. But it also takes us back to W's own campaign there in 2000.
Sixteen years ago, South Carolina was the place W's campaign for the White House took off. John McCain had won the New Hampshire primary with an unexpectedly strong showing and the Bush people needed to win in South Carolina to stop McCain's momentum. They did so by circulating some of the vilest smears and innuendos since, well come to think of it, Bush Pѐre's Willie Horton ads in 1988.
Bush supporters handed out leaflets suggesting that McCain's wife was a drug addict. Voters also got robocalls insinuating that McCain had fathered an illegitimate child with a black woman. This daughter was not actually a product of the dreaded miscegenation, but had been adopted by the McCains from Bangladesh. Nonetheless, the rumors fired up the substantial bigot bloc in South Carolina. Bush cruised to victory and the campaign never looked back.
Bush denied authorizing the sleaze-fest, but most political insiders remain convinced that the whole thing was orchestrated by his consiglieri Karl Rove. Bush distanced himself from it all but he never denounced or disavowed the lies. The South Carolina GOP primary in 2000 taught you everything you needed to know about the content of George W's character.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-conn/thanks-for-the-memories-s_b_9271844.html
The arrival of George W to campaign there on Jeb!'s behalf surely smacks of deep desperation. And it makes us wonder just how long we will all be trapped inside the Bush Dysfunctional Family Follies. But it also takes us back to W's own campaign there in 2000.
Sixteen years ago, South Carolina was the place W's campaign for the White House took off. John McCain had won the New Hampshire primary with an unexpectedly strong showing and the Bush people needed to win in South Carolina to stop McCain's momentum. They did so by circulating some of the vilest smears and innuendos since, well come to think of it, Bush Pѐre's Willie Horton ads in 1988.
Bush supporters handed out leaflets suggesting that McCain's wife was a drug addict. Voters also got robocalls insinuating that McCain had fathered an illegitimate child with a black woman. This daughter was not actually a product of the dreaded miscegenation, but had been adopted by the McCains from Bangladesh. Nonetheless, the rumors fired up the substantial bigot bloc in South Carolina. Bush cruised to victory and the campaign never looked back.
Bush denied authorizing the sleaze-fest, but most political insiders remain convinced that the whole thing was orchestrated by his consiglieri Karl Rove. Bush distanced himself from it all but he never denounced or disavowed the lies. The South Carolina GOP primary in 2000 taught you everything you needed to know about the content of George W's character.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-conn/thanks-for-the-memories-s_b_9271844.html
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Dubya's return to SC...a reminder of them good ol' days of McCain's "illegitimate black baby" (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Feb 2016
OP
Siwsan
(26,308 posts)1. He is starting to remind me of a gargoyle
A really creepy one.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)2. Interesting how stuff follows you around, eh?
Deep desperation says it all. Sincerely hope Bush 1 and 2 and 3 all have a nice retirement and stay out of the public eye. I am finished with them.
bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)3. Me and Baby Brother k&R It's WAR!
AxionExcel
(755 posts)4. The Very Best the Republicans have to offer
tabasco
(22,974 posts)5. It's gonna come out!
Obama is Trumps love-child!