Has Anybody Taken Ownership Of The Repug Talking Pts re: Schiavo?

[global1]

As I recall these talking points were available before last weeks vote. I seem to recall that the Repugs denied that they put those together. Given the poll numbers of American's against Congress intervention and *'s numbers being down as well - I was thinking it would be great to find out that those talking points were put out by the Repugs - given they are now trying to back away from all this?

[ewagner]

1. Last I remember

Randi said that sources had traced it back to Santorum's office....haven't heard it confirmed anywhere else though....

[Warpy]

2. Delay tried to pretend it was Democratic dirty tricks.

The gall of that stupid man. Democrats would have spelled Schiavo's name correctly. The talking points memo did not.

[July]

14. Yeah, Dems created them and Rethugs quoted Dems' words . . .

uh-huh.

Maybe their base buys it.

[paineinthearse]

3. I recall the memo showed up at ABC

but I never learned the source.

[gratuitous]

4. Apparently, the memo just spontaneously generated itself

The Republicans are moving to their default position on the memo: It doesn't exist; if it does exist, they didn't write it; if it does exist and they wrote it, they didn't mean it . . .

You can go on and on. Fortunately, the networks and the cable outlets will be more than happy to pretend that the first lie is true, and no such memo ever existed. So much easier to ignore that way, because it paints such an unflattering picture of Republican demagoguery.

Of course, if the Schiavo affair had taken off like the Republicans wanted it to, the author of the memo would be lionized, interviewed on every show from here to St. Swithins Day, and presented as the young, new, hip face of the Republican party.

As it is, the Republicans have no idea whatsoever why all this fuss is being made over Terri Schiavo.

[Catfight]

5. well said....but it's still not an excuse for us to allow the repugs to

get away with everything. This was over the top and someone needs to fess up. I'd like to know...where the memo originated and why.

[salin]

8. and if it was written

it must have been done by an unauthorized low-level aide who broke into a computer system to type it - but it wasn't really a break in because he simply exploited an already existing hole in security (that no one was notified about)....

(funny how we have heard no more about that isn't it?)

[Gothmog]

6. GOP blogs claim the memo was a democratic dirty trick

Either Dan Rather or some democrat actaully created the memo according to these blogs. Powerline and the freepers have been advocating this theory for a week or so.

Senator Lautenburg has asked for an investigation. Evidently under Senate rules, all material must bear a signature or identification from whom it came from. Senator Lautenberg has asked the Senate leadership to loook into this memo.

[johnaries]

10. That's it! A fake memo! You can tell because of the superscripts.

PC's couldn't do superscripts until a week after the memo was supposed to be written.

BTW, I knew that was BS because I was in the TN NG the same time as Bush, and I used an IBM Selectric typwriter that did superscripts and subscripts.

[James T. Kirk]

7. At least part of it was tracked back to the Traditional Values Coalition.

I' don't know how it made it made it from the TVC web site to ABC News.

[salin]

12. the TVC did use somewhat similar language to DeLay

in an article to the NYT where they say that Shiavo is a blessing to them because it has opened folks' wallets to TVC and other conservative causes.

Callous sobs.

[CTyankee]

9. what if this is another Rove trick?

Plant a spy to use a Dem. Senator's office to type up the memo, then when the investigation comes around, lo and behold, the memo was created on a computer in that Dem's office and their point is proven.

[James T. Kirk]

13. So you think the memo originated from inside a Dem office?

I hadn't heard that.

[nickgutierrez]

11. I've been watching CNN, if that's what you mean.

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