Very odd that a stream of Kerry Bashers are now all using the same

[saracat]

phrase "Republican light" about our most progressive Senator. I think this may be an organised effort of some sort as it is too stupid for any marginally informed person to say! Anyone else wondering?

[TayTay]

1. Yeah, It is dumb enough to be orchestrated

as is the 'racist' line. I smell a rat.

[_dynamicdems]

3. I smell....

a big fat stinky elephant!

[_dynamicdems]

2. My thoughts exactly!

I think they have tipped their hand by going just a bit too far. Kerry has been too successful lately and he's still too popular. The Hillary forum has how many posts? Kerry support is still very strong. Kerry has become very successful in the promotion of other Dems. They WANT Kerry's support because it ups their poll numbers. This has to be making Republicans nervous. Very nervous. 2006 is just around the corner and JK is just warming up.

[Mass]

4. Some as so misinformed that they dont know what they say

Somebody on GDP was using Kerry's ACLU 2002 record as a proof he was not a liberal. However, Boxer has the same one and in 2003, his record is better than hers (that is if ACLU's record means somebody is a liberal).

[frogmarch]

5. RW talking points

about JK abound. That's what makes me suspicious that DU has been infiltrated by the dark side. There appears to be an orchestrated effort to discredit him. Anything goes...his vote on the IWR, his not calling "fraud!" after the election, yada yada.

When all else fails, will they attack Teresa?

[Der Blaue Engel]

17. Will they attack Teresa? They did that today.

"Kerry lost" because the public didn't like her.

These people are so unoriginal. I thought it was Hillary that made people hate Clinton. :eyes:

[WildEyedLiberal]

6. And is DU just letting this happen?

I assume you guys are alerting whenever you see attacks against Kerry supporters or obvious RW lies about Kerry, but it just makes me bitter that this site is so fucking afraid to piss off the wingnutty "left" that it refuses to crack down on this fucking obvious trolling and disrupting.

This is still "Democratic" Underground, is it not? If you are going to have "supporting Democrats and the Democratic party" as your mission statement, then you NEED TO HAVE A SPINE AND DRAW THE FUCKING LINE at this ridiculous obvious disruptive bullshit.

[paulk]

13. just when you thought it was safe to get back in the water

I don't know what the policy of this website is anymore. There are obvious flamebait threads today, obvious trolls disrupting - threads that have been up since this morning - and no problems, I guess, here at Hate Kerry Central. I really don't have a clue (and neither does Kerry, it seems).

Hey! the new rules are up!

what good are rules if they're not enforced?

[Vektor]

18. YES! I have alerted on each blatant attack.

I have written the admins as well as alerted and provided links. They deleted MY POSTS when I stood up to the trolls, but they are still posting away, right now, unscathed with full blown attacks. What the hell is going on?

[GRLMGC]

7. Oh Jesus Christ

Kerry, a man who proposed we raise taxes on the rich, is Republican lite? How fucking stupid can you get?

[sandnsea]

8. Isn't it comical

Other bashers don't want a New England liberal northern elite. It's all just crazy.

[karynnj]

9. If Kerry is Republican lite

where does that put:

Gore - who probably on every year they had in common in the Congress was far les liberal. Oh, he changed????

Edwards - who just this week was seen as more liberal and was forgiven immediately upon the undocumented (not denying accuaracy) report that he renounced his IWR vote.

Clark - who I learned really a link from the Bloomington appearance Clark made on the Clark group was a speechwriter for Al Haig. Who is closer to Hillary thanto Feingold/Kerry/Kennedy etc but he has "an open mind" per one post

Dean - I've gone to VT every year since 1990 for a week's vacation - the liberals were mad at him almost every year for something or other. (However, an old guy who gave us a tour of the capital in about 1995, couldn't have been more positive about him, how nice he was and how smart. He went into Dean's office and took a picture of Dean's daugther off the desk to show my same age daughter)

[emulatorloo]

10. I alerted on these threads -- but you are right, seems coordinated

'repug light' 'racist' etc

We need to contact skinner --

[WildEyedLiberal]

11. Fortunately I haven't seen those threads

I just got out of a thread that started out pretty negative against Kerry supporters, but the OP seems to have realized his unfairness and has apologized. The thread overall isn't too bad now, but it probably still ought to be locked because it addresses a specific faction of DUers (even the OP has expressed that he would like it locked now).

The "racist" and "Repub-lite" crap I have missed however, thank God, and anyone with the links SHOULD pm Skinner. That crap is way uncalled for.

[Vektor]

19. I did.

MY POSTS got deleted. The trolls are still running amok.

[Goldeneye]

12. Fucking elephants

are crapping all over the message board. I wish someone would get a gigantic shovel and clean that shit up. What if we have unexpected company? What would they think? I'd be so embarassed if anyone saw all of these steaming piles of elephant poo we've left laying everywhere.

edit...damn I need to start spell checking my posts.

[Dr Ron]

14. What else is new?

How many times have we heard that he voted for the war, is a flip flopper, has no balls, is Bush-lite, or conceded before all the votes are counted.

Considering how weak each of these arguments is, it is amazing how often they have been repeated here and anti-Kerry sites like Kos.

It isn't so much an organized effort as a bunch of liberal ditto heads all repeating the same thing.

Liberal ditto heads are no better than conservative ditto heads.

If there is any benefit in having the same thing being repeated, perhaps we should respond to every anti-Kerry thread by calling them uninformed ditto heads who are parroting right wing talking points. Then point out that if we are to win liberals need to refute the false claims of the right wing noise machine, not repeat them.

[Firespirit]

15. Could be.

A combination of an orchestrated effort plus some very stupid bandwagon-jumpers.

[Vektor]

16. Not only is it totally co-ordinated, but obvious.

All these individuals that no one has ever heard of, suddenly appear at once and start a bunch of copycat threads, and then all show up on each other's threads to back up the bullshit. The worst? If you alert on them, and can provide many links to prove they are doing just that, even alert on their personals attacks, THE FLAME BAIT IS ALLOWED TO STAY, BUT YOU WILL GET DELETED FOR DEFENDING THE PERSON THEY ARE ATTACKING.

This is a massive insult to those of us who have been here for years and who contribute regularly. It's CRAP. Trolls are roaming freely, and god forbid, after the 100th attack you actually stand up to one: "DELETED POST"

[k j]

22. Been there...

and yes, it is infuriating. All I can offer now is more cheesecake. {{{Kerrycrats}}}

[LittleClarkie]

20. Nah, that's too much like them saying we're coordinated

in our support of him.

Just typical lefty freeper crap.

Hang in there folks. Don't let em get to you. Just alert. I can see some of us out there getting alittle personal.

I would suggest not going out there if it's gonna get to ya. I know it's tough, but it's just the usual folks mostly.

I'd hate to see anyone get banned over this crapola. We need all the Kerry folks here we can get!

On the other hand, I just love the hormonal stuff.

That will make their heads explode.

[Vektor]

21. Fine by me!

Less anger. More loin. I can do that. :-)