Rumor watch: GOP mudslinging in the works? Update: The push polls?
Update: The NH Attorney General is seeking help…
Attorney General Kelly A. Ayotte is requesting the public’s assistance in identifying who employed Moore-Information of Portland, Oregon to conduct a poll in New Hampshire, in November 2007, which has been alleged to be a push-poll. New Hampshire’s voters deserve to know whether any candidate in our Presidential Primary violated New Hampshire’s push-poll statute.
On Friday, November 16, 2007, the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office received complaints from both Mitt Romney for President, Inc., and John McCain 2008, Inc., alleging that an illegal push-poll was being conducted in New Hampshire, contrary to New Hampshire RSA 664:2, XVII and RSA 664:16-a. As a result of these complaints, this Office commenced an investigation.
New Hampshire law requires an entity making a push poll call to provide a phone number from where the poll is conducted and to inform the person polled that the call is being made on behalf of, in support of, or in opposition to a particular candidate, and to name that candidate…
…Because the voters of New Hampshire deserve to know whether any presidential candidate violated New Hampshire’s law by conducting this poll, Attorney General Kelly Ayotte requests anyone with information regarding who hired Moore-Information, Inc. to cause this poll to be conducted in New Hampshire, in November 2007, to please contact the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office.
The New Hampshire Attorney General’s in-state toll free election line phone number is:
1-866-868-3703
(1-866-VOTER03)Out-of-State (603) 271-3650
Update: John Hawkins says it’s the push poll story.
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For the most part, the GOP presidential candidates have waged clean, substantive campaigns. With a few notable exceptions, the office-seekers have attacked each other’s records and eschewed ad hominems. But word has been spreading on the right side of the blogosphere that some new mudslinging may be in the works. I also received one of the e-mails hyping a press conference set for Monday at the National Press Club. Former Huckabee staffer Joe Carter tells PoliGazette there are two attacks ahead. Michael van der Galien writes: “Seemingly the scandal promises to be big. Very big. If Carter believes that it’ll force Romney to withdraw from the race before South Carolina and perhaps even after winning in Iowa today, it has to be one of the biggest scandals imaginable. Although I didn’t want to write about it at first, I have to admit that curiosity is now taking over.” Dan Riehl does a little Googling.
Take it all with a grain of salt.
Commenter CP cracks: “Maybe they’ll hint at the scandal(s), then decide not to talk about it on principle, before talking about it to the press.”
Snort.
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Huckabee seems to be a dirty player, IMO. If there are issues, bring them out. If not, shut up. I really don’t like this guy. Never thought I would say it, but I think Huckabee is slimier than Slick Willy.
Like Ann Coulter said, the country does not need another former fat boy from Arkansas.
All I have to say is:
This had better be a genuine scandal. Otherwise much ado about nothing amounts to schoolyard bullying and taunting. That won’t help the GOP overcome the Democrat / MoveOn / Media barrage that is to come.
Is Huckabee a Hillary plant?
THIS JUST IN….
AN OPERATIVE FROM THE ROMNEY CAMP HAS CONFESSED TO PLANTING TWINKIES AND DING-DONGS IN THE CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS OF MIKE HUCKABEE…
STILL DEVELOPING
May it all work in Fred’s favor.
What a bunch of dindongs.
I just watched the Huckabee interview on Meet the Press on msnbc.com. I had missed the live airing, but at my mum’s request I watched it. It really is worth watching if you have not seen it already. I’m actually reconsidering him after seeing this interview.
Check out his record, not his rhetoric please…
In the interview he explains his record.
Thanks for the heads up, Michelle.
I find it ironic, however, that you didn’t caveat the Politico hit on Fred!
The guy that Huck hired and developed the “pulled” nasty ad that was shown to reporters was interviewed. To paraphrase: attack ads are what work and what I am good at. Maybe this is just chapter two of his plan.
The guy’s famous and I can’t remember his name!!!
To all you folks who think Huckabee is so great:
All I can say is you must have loved Bill Clinton. Katieanne nailed it right on the head – he’s slimier than Slick Willie – and maybe even more sociopathic.
This guy is a weasel. And for all you that like him because he’s a “Christian” – I’d really suggest you re-evaluate your support. His actions in this campaign have been far from Christian. Get over the fact that he’s a Baptist minister. That doesn’t give him immunity from being a sc#mbag. And his record is far from conservative.
To all you folks who think Romney is so great:
He’s not much better than Huckabee. His record overall really isn’t any better than Huckabee and he certainly isn’t a true conservative.
Unfortunately, everybody has bought into the lie that conservatism won’t win elections. And that has given us the frontrunners we have in the Republican primaries.
Rick Moran’s thread at Rightwing Nuthouse does have one indisputable kernel of truth in it;
Huckabee seems to me to be the GOP Jimmy Carter. Yuck.
Katieanne is dead on target here, I think.
One thing I’ve noticed from Huckabee who started out as a gentle, friendly southern minister is that he’s showing is harsher side as of late. Angry, defensive, extraordinarily thinned skinned -a terrible choice for president.
It almost appears that the GOP candidates want the Dems to win.You can’t win elections by dividing the base by slinging mud on your opponent.Having been a Dem,I thought mud-slinging was a Dem tactic,not Republican.Time for Huck to take a hike.
You know the Arkansans will probably vote for Huckabee just as they did for
Clinton..to get him OUT OF THE STATE!!!!
Amen, Katieanne! How goes the breathing?
Republicans win when they stand for something and let the issues and their policy choices speak for themselves. If the “lower tier” candidates don’t start articulating their stances and drumming up support at the very outset, then all we have left (like this time around) is the best mudslinger with the least amount of mud.
That’s no way to win the White House.
True competition of issues-oriented debate will cause each candidate to bring out their best. Sadly, we are stuck with what we have.
/double sigh
Huck voted for disclosing before he voted against it.
I still say the Huckster is running for the wrong party. This guy has absolutely no business running as a conservative.
Michelle seems to do a good job of that when it comes to Fred Thompson. I do not intend to be judgemental, but the facts at hand are damning:
Compare the lack of countering facts to the caveats here about Huckabee.
Notice no caveat in the Thompson “quitting” story today at MM in which they invent a “non-denial denial” that simply is not there unless you read into it a John-Kerry-in-Cambodia sized portion of nuance and imagined things. Furthermore, this rumor has been sharply and solidly denied by Rich Galen talking with Byron York at National Review’s Corner blog. And thats in addition to a press release, etc, that have followed this, show his fundraising and intention to fight this onward.
Yet Michelle has NOT posted any of that in a followup – maybe she is the lazy one, not Fred?
She posts the smear but not the correction as has happened in the past. If that is deliberately the case then its despicable. And it shows a de facto irrational animus against Fred (unless Michelle has decided to no longer be a conservative).
Plus I still have yet to see Michelle’s apology and admission that she was wrong over splashing the “silly hat” kerfluffle on her front page, etc.
By the evidence at hand, Michelle is in the process of beclowning herself in regards to Fred Thompson.
Michelle, actions speak louder than words. Why are you so quick to post smears on Fred and not correct them just as quickly, or apologize later?
Conservatives wonder.
Medved is talking about HDS on his show. Heh, pretty interesting.
Clinton explained everything in the interview also..
Republican “clean” campaigns have not always been that truthful. Pay attention to what Romney and Giuliani now say about what they did as Republicans in liberal areas. Google the ads Romney, Huckabee and McCain have run about each other.
No, that’s right CS. I was just replying to Alohaguy that the Russert interview was not just rhetoric. They talk about his record in detail, whether you agree with it or not is a different issue. Not sure I agree with it all, but I have to say it was impressive.
I hope all the readers of this blog know that their beloved Fred Thompson was a huge supporter of McCain-Feingold, and was once considered the “liberal Senator” from Tennessee.
Not to crash your Iowa pipe dreams or anything.
Understood Schweggie.
All anyone has to do is look at all of their records to find who is liberal and who is not.
BTW, just who considered Thompson the ” “liberal Senator” from Tenn?
I hope it has nothing to do with this;
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080103/huckabee_letters.html?.v=1
I still want to know who Huckabee’s
handlersadvisers are…anyone know?CS
True, Thompson did vote for BCRA. He has had at least the good sense to walk back on his support for it, unlike it’s father, McCain.
So far, so good TXRose. Now what I have to do is get in the habit of doing it on a regular basis. It’s not a habit yet.
I remember Arkansas as being the summer play ground for the mafia elite…looks like they spent some time in Hope?
Katieanne, don’t know about your breathing problem or why you have one, but have you tried the pursed lip breathing technic? I personally suffer from emphysema, enjoyment of smoking all those cigs has somewhat been diminished. I use the pursed breathing technic when short winded helps considerably.
Best of luck with it.
risr, we’re talking about square breathing for relearning to breathe after
stopping cigs.
We were driving through AR recently heading and there was a sign for Hope and The Doublewide Library. Husband asks if I would like to stop. Luckily, he
was smiling when he asked it.
I could not remember who Rollins had worked for..Whitman. That’s where he
went around telling everyone he did an illegal thing. He bragged about it and
this is the man Huckabee has working for him. Shades of the Clintons!