The Clintons are not the only political couple where the hubby, named Bill, is trying to get the wife elected. And neither are strangers to dirty tricks.
There are a lot of similarities between the Clintons and the Shaheens. In both cases they follow the standard Democrat tactic of accusing the Republicans for the "dirty tricks" that they themselves employ. They assume that whatever they themselves do or would do is what the GOP opponent would do.
Billy Shaheen, who for six years was the New Hampshire "First Hunk" as his wife - former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen referred to him, is now co-chair of the Clinton national campaign (even as his wife is seeking to oust Sen. John Sununu is NH). Not at all surprising that he would bring up Osama's admitted drug use and blame the GOP.
"It'll be, 'When was the last time? Did you ever give drugs to anyone? Did you sell them to anyone?'" said Shaheen, whose wife Jeanne is the state's former governor and is running for the U.S. Senate next year.
"There are so many openings for Republican dirty tricks. It's hard to overcome," Shaheen said.
Every opponent Shaheen faced in her campaigns for Governor and Senator has been a mean spirited, evil uber conservative who employed ever dirty trick imaginable - at least that was how the Shaheens portrayed them. Billy was the behind the curtain stage manager while Jeanne played Betty Crocker. Now there are claims the 2002 election where she lost her bid for the open Senate seat was stolen from her by some phone jamming at the Dem's call for a ride to the polls phones. Hard to believe that:
according to court documents...about 800 calls between 7:45 and 9:10 a.m.
could have prevented almost 20,000 Democrat voters from voting. Yes, the phone blocking was wrong. Yes, people who were responsible have spent time in jail for it, but no, it did not result in Shaheen losing to Sununu. She lost because he was the better candidate!
No one should forget, the Willey Horton issue that hurt Michael Dukakis was originated by the Gore campaign. The GOP only followed up on it and was then blamed for using a "dirty trick". The facts of that are clear - Michael Dukakis as governor allowed Horton out on a furlough - Horton raped and murdered while on that furlough - Gore asked Dukakis about "weekend passes for convicted criminals" during a 1988 Democratic primary debate. If it was a dirty trick to use these facts to defeat Dukakis - then every fact based campaign tactic is a dirty trick and a Dem started the whole thing.
Of course the Clinton campaign has disavowed the words of their national co-chairman, they never accept responsibility for anything. They never have - they never will!
Cross posted at RobBoyce.com
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