It’s who she is
by digby
Apparently, Congressional representative Barbara Comstock is getting down and dirty in her race in Virginia:
Here’s why political consultants are (mostly) dumb: they polled “do you think ms-13 is dangerous and threatening” and OF COURSE a huge majority of voters said yes. (do i still have to tell you this is a thread) https://t.co/2VwUKdCN3P— Aleigha Cavalier (@aleighacavalier) August 9, 2018
So, congrats @BarbaraComstock, you’re not only going to lose, but now you’ll not only go down as a shill for the @NRA, but also someone who’d stoop to gross, cheap, and ill-conceived political tactics just like @GillespieForVA.— Aleigha Cavalier (@aleighacavalier) August 9, 2018
Barbara Comstock has been trying to reinvent herself as some kind of moderate, common sense Republican. She is not. She’s a professional character assassin. None of that is against her will.
If you don’t believe me, read this.
As voters turn their attention toward the coming presidential election, an abiding question from the previous one frustrates Democrats: How is it, they wonder, that Al Gore told small fibs and was branded a liar while George W. Bush told big ones and was elected President? Gore’s many exaggerations may have been foolish—that he had somehow invented the Internet, that he grew up on a Tennessee farm, and so on. But surely, this line of thinking goes, they paled alongside Bush’s audacious claim that he could cut taxes by $1.3 trillion, effortlessly privatize Social Security, and still balance the budget.
A large part of the answer can be found in a BBC documentary titled Digging the Dirt, which was filmed during the 2000 campaign and never aired in the United States. The film centers on a team of Republican opposition researchers —a species that has existed in politics for eons but had recently undergone an evolutionary leap. From deep within the Republican National Committee headquarters the BBC tracked the efforts of this team, whose job it was to discredit and destroy Al Gore.
Comstock ran that operation. And it was ugly.
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