Former NC Senator and Vice Presidential Wannabe John Edwards is coming to Virginia to campaign for Jim Webb. Isn’t that special.

Make sure you take a look at this video so that you can be all nice and prepared for the visit.

John Edwards is Feeling Pretty.

From Allen for Senate:

Lessening the Tax Burden on Virginians:

• Senator Allen is an advocate for Virginia’s hardworking families, workers, and small businesses. He believes that we need to keep the current economic expansion of opportunity growing stronger and prevent tax increases, and in fact, lower the tax burden on taxpayers and investment for more prosperity, opportunity, and jobs.

Supporting Tax Relief:

• Advocated for and sponsored successful tax relief efforts including –
  • Elimination of the Death Tax
  • Acceleration of marriage penalty relief
  • Increasing the number of Americans eligible for the 10-percent tax bracket
• Raising the Child Tax Credit
  • Signed the Americans for Tax Reform’s “Taxpayers Protection Pledge” to assure the working people of Virginia and America that they will be able to keep more of what they earn. Â

Compare and contrast:

H/T to The A-Team for reminding us that Jim Webb wants to raise your taxes.

How Jim Webb and the Democrat party orchestrated a smear campaign against George Allen.

Oh how they’ve hated him for years. Hear the Democrat orchestra, tuning up for a couple of decades. You hear each instrument tuning and fine tuning the phrases “we hate George Allen, we must smear George Allen, we must tell lies about George Allen.”

And then the conductor steps to the platform, lifts his baton and a cacophony of hate filled “music” begins.

This is the prelude to Jim Webb’s Rhapsody on a theme of Hate in D(emocrat) minor. Having kicked his opponent in the knees with an anti-Semitic flyer in the primary, Jim Webb gains the Democratic nomination in Virginia.Â

Not yet sure if the orchestration they purchased will hum along with their discordant agenda, the liberalist music softly swells with phrases such as “we’ll make him spend his money.”

Then, the sound of a clashing cymbal. At an obscure campaign event in far Southwest Virginia, Senator Allen attempts to poke a bit of good natured fun at Webb’s campaign stalker. That was no fun you say? Apparently Sidarth didn’t have a problem with it. And in fact no one did until the video returned to Webbquarters where Webb’s minions quickly created a definition on that credible source Wikipedia. That definition didn’t exist until August 17 and even The Washington Post was forced to admit the word was never clearly defined.

Think about the recent uproar caused by the use of “macaca,” a word whose meaning was never really defined. The Washington Post

Knowing all along that he’d done no wrong, meant no foul the Senator apologized.

Not good enough! the leftist voices shrieked in antiphonal response. Not good enough!

Joining the sour strings of Webb’s paid bloggers came the blaringly out of tune brass of the Main Stream Media. “It’s a scandal,” they sang. “He’s doomed,” they proclaimed.

Then an “independent” chorus manufactured yet another lie. Working the Webbites into a frenzy no seen since the Shaker movement died out, the VoteVets.org issue a lie filled television ad that said “Senator Allen voted to withhold body armor.” The ad was soundly refuted.

Lies from VoteVets.org
I took a little time today to dig around the references that were supplied in regards to this VoteVets body armor ad and to other allegations that Senator George Allen is somehow in against the idea of providing adequate equipment to American servicemembers in combat zones. Not surprisingly, what has been promoted by the Democrats is a little less than truthful. It’s time to set the record straight.

Webb’s Dirty Tricksters: body armor
As an exJarhead and Nam vet I can say from first hand experience that you are absolutely right [that the ad is a lie]. … It pains me to think that another exJarhead and Nam vet may be behind this.

Fact Check.org
“A new ad claims Republican Sen. George Allen of Virginia “voted against giving our troops” modern body armor. He did no such thing. The ad cites a vote on an appropriations amendment that had nothing whatever to do with body armor.

The ad also claims troops were sent to Iraq with flak vests “left over from the Vietnam war,” another falsehood. The ad actually shows an improved vest that wasn’t available until the 1980’s.”

Veteran Democratic State Senator endorses Senator Allen and thanks him for his support of Historic Black Colleges and Universities.

Senior African-American Democratic State Senator Endorses Allen

The Webbites fall silent…or do they?

A Webbcampaign of Lies: college funding
If the Webb campaign wants to deceive voters by pointing out that George Allen’s budget saved Virginians money by no longer forcing them to subsidize the education of non-Virginians — if the Webb campaign wants to claim that George Allen’s budget required all schools to meet uniform deadlines and standards, they may do so. But to claim that George Allen “cut funding for historically black colleges when he was Governor” is a gross misrepresentation of the truth.

With written documentation of Webb’s sexist attitude hardly rating an honorable mention in the “news,” Webb attacks Senator Allen on women’s issues.

The Gentleman and the Un-GentlemanlyÂ

….accusing George Allen of saying “we shouldn’t treat women the same as men at the military academies”. Once again, the Webb campaign misrepresents the truth and deceives Virginia voters.

Not content with simply attacking the Senator (or heaven forbid, actually talking about issues), the Webbites attack the Senator’s children:

From Raising Kaine

None of his family is from Virginia or the south but he adopted the darkest side of our southern culture and named his son “Forrest” after one of the founders of the Klu Klux Klan - Nathan Bedford Forrest. George Allen is a sociopathic bully who abused his siblings and friends and dreamed of becoming a dentist so he could get paid to make people suffer.

Wonkette says “Allen’s son (the one named after this great American hero) receives a sort of combination regrettable senior picture plus county fair caricature treatment (so — you like “rock and roll,” Forrest? ‘Course you do!).”

It’s simply a lie that Forrest Allen is named after Nathan Beford Forrest. Catch a clue folks, for one thing NBF is not the Civil War hero Virginians name their child after.

Attacking the Senator by misrepresenting a deceased President.

Jim Webb’s first campaign ad featured footage of Ronald Reagan implying a posthumous endorsement.

Webb’s campaign denied that was the intent of the add, however…

The Washington Post wrote that the “Webb ad serves almost as a posthumous endorsement from Reagan.”

“There’s one thing Ronald Reagan and I have in common,” [Mudcat] Saunders said. “We both endorse Jim Webb.” in The Roanoke Times.

Not content to misrepresent the deceased President, the Webb campaign rebuffs the request of his widow.

Lies about connections to the Council for Conservative Citizens.

The CCC doesn’t think there’s a connection.

“To be quite frank with you. . . we didn’t know him and he didn’t know us, and we had the picture run in our newspaper,” Baum replied. “Our folks have never supported him.”

News reporter Peggy Fox attacks the Senator with a question planted by the Webb campaign. The Senator releases this statement:

“Yesterday, I found it especially reprehensible that a reporter would impugn the attitudes of my mother, as Ms. Peggy Fox did in her first question at the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce Senate debate. My mother and father both taught me to abhor bigotry, and Ms. Fox’s suggestion to the contrary was deeply offensive.”

So, Peggy, where DID that question come from?

Any doubt that the Nutroots Webbsters weren’t the ones peddling for someone to ask the question about George Allen’s religious ancestry can be cast aside by this admission.

Not content to simply insult the Senator’s mother, Webb’s campaign treasurer promotes a story that attacks Allen’s grandfather who was imprisoned by the Nazis during WWII.

There is yet another possibility. It is reported that the Felix Lumbroso family was at that time Tunisia’s leading importer of wines and spirits, including the famed Cinzano label. As such, the firm could only have had dealings with its traditional suppliers in Vichy France and Fascist Italy. These Lumbrosos would have been – in the broadest sense of the term – “collaborators” with the Axis occupiers. Upon arriving in Tunisia, the triumphant Allies promptly (if briefly) incarcerated a number of Tunisian collaborators – mostly Italian – in the same labor camps that had weeks before been occupied by Jewish conscripts. Did this fate befall Felix Lumbroso? Is this the skeleton in the closet? There is absolutely no evidence for this, but the confusion of Allen’s statements opens the door to endless speculation. Raising Kaine (promoted by Webb’s campaign treasurer).

Nobody Expects the Religious Inquisition
Greg Pollowitz, at Sixers, notes that this is not a coincidence — it is the result of a concerted effort among Webb’s allies to question Allen’s religion for political gain:
There is some question if the Webb campaign is pushing the “George Allen is Jewish” angle to somehow win votes. Webb was accused of similar behavior during his primary against Harris Miller, who is Jewish.

Further, The Allen Blog tells us: Additionally, this story has gotten play in the past on both DailyKos and Lowell Feld ’s (Webb’s netroots guy) blog, RaisingKaine. The basic storyline is that Allen is denying his Jewish heritage as that would lower his appeal to Virginia voters.

More attacks from the anti-Semitic wing of the Webb campaign:Â

Sen. George Allen is Jewish. Relevant?
“Too bad Jim Webb can’t exploit it.”

George Allen’s New Jew Revue

Â

Â

More of the same…

On The DailyKos, Republicans are referred to as “the racist crowd.”

Also on The DailyKos – “the bubba vote”

“He may have been concerned that Jewish roots wouldn’t play well in parts of Virginia.” Dana Milbank

From Raising Kaine – operated by paid Webb campaign staff
George Allen - DISHONEST, ELITIST & RACIST

Also on Raising Kaine:

Is George Allen Catering to Antisemitism?
George Felix Allen doesn’t want people to know that he is Jewish because some of the people he wants to appeal to, the people whose votes he most wants, the people he chooses to identify with politically, the people he agrees with, are antisemitic.

Mimi Schaeffer on Raising Kaine
Voters in Virginia should ensure Allen gets the psychological help he so desperately needs from a shrink by not reelecting him in the fall.

Lying about the campaign “Shake Up.”

Webb’s paid bloggers create and peddle a blatant lie about a supposed “shake-up” at Allen HQ.

The Salon Hit Piece.Â

When you have nothing else to play, play the race card.Â

Webb’s Dirty Tricksters: Salon Â

Sadly, the Webb campaign is continuing their attemptÂ
to make this Virginia Senate race about lies and rumor-mongering, rather than about issues. In Salon today, an anti-tobacco and environmental activist claims Senator Allen “used “N-word” in college“.

So now, after the Senator has been in public service for nearly 25 years, suddenly these people who “knew him well” claim to have heard him utter the “N-word.”

From The Allen Blog:

Shelton lied about the origin of the name “Wizard”:

Joe Gieck, 35-year UVA trainer: “I seem to recall that Ken Shelton got the ‘Wizard’ nickname for his pass catching ability and before George Allen came to the University of Virginia.”

George Korte, UVA linebacker ‘70-’73: “Ken Shelton received his nickname because of his ability as a tight end to magically get open and catch the football not because he shared someone’s last name.”

Charlie Hale, UVA center ‘70-’73: I have always known him by the nickname, ‘Wizard’. I have always thought the name came from his ability to catch passes … or his ability to somehow get open in the field. Personally I believe that he was a true ‘Wizard’ because he always had the ability to sneak out after curfew and never get caught.”

Shelton lied about Allen using the “n-word”:

Doug Jones, UVA defensive back ‘71-’74 and roomate of Ken Shelton: “I was on the University of Virginia football team with George Allen for the 1972 and 1973 seasons. During that time I never heard George Allen use any racially disparaging word nor did I ever witness or hear about him acting in a racially insensitive manner.”

George Korte, UVA linebacker ‘70-’73: “Contrary to Ken Shelton, I have kept up with George Allen the past thirty-five years. During this time, I have never known or heard him use racial epithets to describe blacks either in public or private. … George Allen did not use racial epithets or demonstrate racist attitudes towards blacks in the early 1970s.

Charlie Hale, UVA center ‘70-’73: ““During the 34 years I have known George Allen I have never heard him use racial slurs or derogatory language to describe a person or group of persons.”

Shelton lied about Allen’s reasons for coming to UVA:

Â

George Korte, UVA linebacker ‘70-’73: “George came to University of Virginia because his father became the head coach of the Washington Redskins.”

Charlie Hale, UVA center ‘70-’73: “The reason that Senator Allen came to Virginia to play football from UCLA was the fact that he was very close to his father, loved professional football and wanted to be near his family who would be living in Leesburg, Virginia.”

Why is it that they hate George Allen so?

We suspect, we know why:

Kathleen Parker said on April 28, 2006: Allen, indeed, is a favorite among Republican Party players. He’s also the one Democrats worry about most, according to an insider who told me: “The one Hillary’s worried about is George Allen.”…Thus, before millions of Americans are able to match Allen’s name with his face, they’ll likely be able to link his name to the label - racist. The fact that the mudslinging has begun so early - while Allen is busy running for re-election to the Senate - confirms how seriously opponents take his presidential candidacy.

Why is it that Jim Webb hasn’t shown some backbone and some decency and called for a halt to these false, race-baiting, hate-filled attacks?

It’s because they have nothing else but sour notes. Make no mistake about it folks, these attacks are scurrilous lies and they’re all orchestrated by the Democrats party of hate, lies and distortions.

When the Democrats run on the issues, they lose.

And they know that.

And for what it’s worth, I don’t believe Doug Thompson OR Larry Sabato.Â

H/T to The Allen Blog and The A-Team for much of the information included in this post. Links are provided where available/appropriate.

UPDATE: Just when you thought Webb’s campaign couldn’t go any lower. H/T to The Mason Conservative for pointing out the NLS link to this video.

UPDATE, UPDATE:Â Just so we know who we’re dealing with Doug Thompson is the “contract field consultant” who wrote this:

“The American flag does not fly outside our home today. It usually does on July 4 but not this Fourth of July because I can’t bring myself to celebrate an independence that isn’t or recognize a country that no longer stands for freedom. In fact, I may start a bonfire in our front yard and burn every American flag we own…”

And this:

And they start to think that, when compared to the fanatics who control the government of this country, maybe Saddam Hussein wasn’t all that bad.

I’m calling the RNC. If we paid this guy, I want my money back.

Shelton Lied!

H/T to The Allen Blog for the response to the Salon hit piece.

Take a run over to The United Conservatives of Virginia for this week’s version of the Weakly Webb Woundup.

Excellent work Mrs. McDonald.

Â

Â

Â

Richmond Times-Dispatch Letters to the Editor for September 25:

Editor, Times-Dispatch: Democratic Senate candidate Jim Webb appears to be a political hypocrite. After his campaign created a stir over innocent remarks by Senator George Allen at a cookout in Southwest Virginia, Webb has now demonstrated demeaning and insulting activity of his own with his callous disregard of the pleas by former First Lady Nancy Reagan that he refrain from using images of her dead husband to falsely imply that the late president was somehow endorsing Webb from the grave.

Mrs. Reagan and other administration figures have made it plain that they feel Allen is the true heir to the Reagan legacy.

Webb has proven himself to be a shameless opportunist by his pathetic TV ad — and has demonstrated how cold-hearted he really is by ignoring the wishes of Mrs. Reagan.

Unlike the Allen critics, I was at the cookout at the Breaks Interstate Park and can report firsthand that the young man was not offended at the time as he told me personally that he had joined in the cookout before leaving. He made no protest either during or after Allen’s remarks. The outrage was cooked up at Webb headquarters after they reviewed his film and discovered a molehill to make into a mountain.

Bobby Lee May. Hurley.

We speculated that to be the case all along. In fact, if Siddarth had really been offended, he could have told the Senator, or Mr. May right there and we can be sure the Senator would have apologized on the spot.

Instead, Siddarth had to head back to Webbquarters for instructions and so that the “definition” could be created on Wikipedia, and we get a manufactured story. (Ward said so at the time).Â

It just goes back to the point I keep trying to make. Webb and his merry band of paid bloggers can’t tell the truth because they know when the truth is told, they lose.Â

The Raising Kaine folks are simply going off the deepend. Earlier today The A-Team posted a piece that was proof positive that Webb’s paid campaign staff are behind the vicious, hate-filled anti-Semitic attacks against Senator Allen.

Take a look at:Â Did I really read this ?!?!?!?

Riley takes a look at two separate posts over at Raising Kaine.

First he talks about this post. George Allen and the Lumbroso Code.

To illustrate his point, Riley refers to  Lowell’s edited post that initially had the yellow Star of David. Lowell took down the graphic.

Riley returns to the “Lumbroso Code” post.

Click on the link and under the title and date you’ll see this:

(This diary presents a fascinating historical perspective. - promoted by Ingrid)

Um…Kenton, Lowell….THAT’s the post Riley is referring to.  Not the one with the graphic.

So, take that red pen of yours and give your own self an “F” for reading comprehension.

And, by the way, Lowell’s still wrong about Dick Wadhams.

UPDATE: Looks like Kenton and Lowell have pulled the post and the graphic. *snicker*

And, by the way, Lowell’s still wrong about Dick Wadhams.

UPDATED UPDATE:

Kenton issued an apology over here. Thanks Kenton.

But for the record, Lowell is still wrong about Dick Wadhams.

H/T to The A-Team for pointing out that Webb’s paid professionals are behind the scurrilous attacks on Raising Kaine (and elsewhere?).Â

Did I really read this ?!?!?!? tells us that Webb’s own campaign treasurer was promoting one of the most hate filled, vicious attacks we’ve seen. The A-Team has a screen shot of Lowell’s initial post with the yellow Star of David. He took the picture down, but we’re betting he didn’t want to.

These are not independent bloggers, they’re paid Webb campaign staff. And, as such, they speak as official representatives of Jim Webb.

This has gone on far too long. Webb refuses to address the issue. When MSNBC’s Chris Matthews asked Webb about it he refused to answer and said, “This is absurd.”

What’s absurd, Mr. Webb, is that you’ve let this continue. In fact, we’re beginning to suspect you’ve encouraged it.

Really, would finding some issues to talk about have been that hard? We know that your only claim in this race is “I’m not George Allen.” But how about you and your paid bloggers spending some time telling folks why they should vote for you, and not just against George Allen.

Way back in August the campaign said…

Webb “just wants to get beyond all this” and focus on issues.”
Kristian Denny Todd, Webb Communications Director
August 16, 2006

The message appears to be quite the contrary.Â

When will Jim Webb do the honorable thing and tell his paid bloggers to stop the personal attacks and lies?

Over a month later, we’re still waiting.

We told you last night that Lowell was lying.

He’s at it again today with More on the Wadhams Story.

The FACT is, no matter how many unnamed sources Lowell quotes, he’s wrong.

Oh I’m sure in Lowell’s little world he believes the nonsense he posts.

And that’s just sad. It’s okay Lowell, the nice lady with the little white cup will be by soon.

France looks into bin Laden death report

From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

PARIS — President Jacques Chirac said Saturday that information contained in a leaked intelligence document raising the possibility that Osama bin Laden may have died of typhoid in Pakistan last month is “in no way whatsoever confirmed.”

I won’t believe it until we get the report that he’s really, most sincerely, dead.

I’m guessing Karl Rove is keeping Bin Laden on ice for an “October Surprise.”

But discussing Bin Laden is enough to make Bill Clinton Freak Out. Check out the video and watch the Impeached President come unhinged.

After being caught red-handed yesterday in an outright lie, Lying Lowell™ is at it bright and early this morning. Today we get this gem:

The following comes from an extremely knowledgeable economist who is a friend of mine but prefers to remain anonymous.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

I stopped reading right there. I have some extremely knowledgeable friends who think Lying Lowell™ woke up with egg on his face this morning and had to try to talk about something serious for a change.

Not even gonna try to “refute” what he says. Lying Lowellâ„¢ and his anonymous sources have lost any pretense of credibility.

OMT points to this in today’s Richmond Times Dispatch:

Bloggers are supposed to be the independent voices that will set America free. Yet as Virginia daily sees, the more partisan among them (especially those on party or campaign payrolls) prolong the feeding frenzies and negativism that creative minds are said to despise. Regarding Allen’s ancestry, for example: Why were bloggers associated with Webb relentlessly pounding the story?

It’s a good question.Â

But OMT gets it wrong in his response, he says:

But let us not forget that the “Jewish Question” would not have arisen if not for a television news reader first asking it, based upon a newspaper report which broached it. Campaign trivia is not reserved to blogs.

Not exactly true OMT. That question, along with the m-word nonsense and a whole host of lies (see above) have been tossed around by the leftist bloggers for months. One angry shrieker even claims to have sent the question to Meet the Press.

Peggy Fox raised that question specifically in response to the false assertions by the leftist blogosphere that Senator Allen’s mother had taught him to use an ethnic slur.

Granted, the Main Stream Media is completely capable of distortions and lies and fake news (see CBS, “Fake but Accurate”). But the vast majority of lies and misinformation in this campaign has come from Webb’s paid bloggers and their merry band of lying leftists who can’t talk about substantive issues, because they don’t have any.

his keyboard is moving.Lying Lowellâ„¢ is at it again. Tonight he’s trying to tell us that a major “shake-up” at the Allen Campaign is doing in Dick Wadhams.

In your dreams Lowell.

I’ve heard directly from the campaign. It ain’t true.

‘Course I already knew that when I saw it was your post.

H/T to The A-Team for The only shake up will be over at Webb HQ.

UPDATE: Lowell’s backing down from his absurd claim. But he says maybe it’s a secret we won’t know about until after Election Day.

Yeah, that’s right, Wadhams is on “Double Secret Probation.”

Lowell, you’re such a Neidermeyer.