Hesiod writes:
Finally, let me say this. Karl Rove and George W. Bush will do ANYTHING to win this election. ANYTHING. They will do whatever it takes. Legal, or otherwise.
So let's not pretend that the Bush people will somehow play by the rules. They won't. In New Hampshire in 2002, a GOP operation illegally disrupted the Shaheen campaign's Get Out The Vote ["GOTV"] phone banks.
They are obviously conducting Push polls, and violated Wisconsin law by not revealing the source of funding for the poll.
They organized the Swift Boat Liars for Bush campaign against John Kerry. They tried to accuse Kerry of having an affair with an AP reporter. They are stealing Kerry yard signs in Florida by the hundreds. They are sending Florida State Troopers into elderly African American homes checking on the "validity" of their absentee ballot applications. In swing state after swing state, the Republicans are engaging in massive signature drives to get Ralph Nader on the Ballot.
And, I can guarantee you, that's just the tip of the iceberg.
So, what are we to do? Fight back with everything we've got. I won't specify what that means. I'll leave it up to each individual to determine the appropriate response.
My only qualification would be that anything goes so long as it doesn't physically harm anyone or cause destruction to private or public property.
Most of all, don't get caught. And if you do, deny you have any connection whatsoever to the Kerry campaign or the Democratic party. Which, of course, will be 100% true.
The Kerry people and the DNC can't tell you to do this. Nor would they.
But, you do what you have to do.
Losing is not an option.
Counterspin Central
Pushed by poll, state Democrat pushes back
31 August 2004, Cary Spivak & Dan Bice, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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