We can’t keep letting Republicans get away with telling lies like this:
“Substantially it’s completely accurate,” Douglas said in his description of Dubie’s advertising and campaign statements.’
Dubie’s radio ad says:
Shumlin’s plan would turn drug dealers and child pornographers out on the street, long before their sentences were served.
Child pornography is considered a violent offense under Vermont law; therefore, Dubie’s ad contains a lie. Shumlin’s plan deals with non-violent offenders.
This type of behavior needs to be pointed out. Douglas can be expected to back Dubie, yet he should stick to the facts. By not doing so, he is disgracing the office he holds.
Douglas’s Quote: http://vtdigger.org/2010/10/06…
Dubie’s Ad (start at 18 seconds): http://briandubie.com/pages/se…
… and also for the truth, whenever the truth got in the way.
Douglas has often repeated the line, “Government doesn’t produce anything,” when he spent his whole life drawing a government paycheck. At least a highway worker can count the potholes he has filled. Douglas can’t point to that much.
I’ve been trying to get a drumbeat going to counter the Rush/Rove drums, but there really isn’t much interest.
I get the feeling that many are content to know they are right, while losing. I think we will all pay much too high a price for that.
The opposition to the Vietnam War was much stronger than today’s opposition. I’m worried that the next war will get less opposition.
If people take a look at history, and realize how long the right has been working to change basic American values, and how different the founders’ values were from Rush/Rove’s, they make wake up.
We need to remember that the founders set a course, a direction for the country, rather than a headstone.