Kerry should have taken the advice of Wayne Madsen. I hope the democrats are willing to fight fire with fire this fall.
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The gloves are off! Fight back!
The rallying cry is: The Republicans are racists, sexual predators, hypocrites, and traitors!
By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer
September 15, 2004—Having just returned from a short trip to Europe, where I thankfully was able to watch only short excerpts of George W. Bush's pathetic convention acceptance speech from the sanctity of television news broadcasts free of the reverential blather of corporate controlled ass-kissing "journalists," it has become abundantly clear to me that it's past time for those who wish for the survival of the Constitution of our democratic republic to strenuously fight back against those who would replace it with a nation based on corporate control, Judeo-Christian extreme fundamentalism, and militarism.
John Kerry was slow to respond to the vicious and venal nature of Republican campaign tactics but he and other Democrats now understand that when the Republicans sic their attack dogs, the best defense is a quick and overwhelming offense. Make no mistake about it: this election is the most important in the history of the United States. It's more important than Lincoln-Douglas in 1860 and McKinley-Bryan in 1896 and 1900.
If Lyndon Johnson were alive today, he would tell us Democrats how to beat the crap out of the Republicans. There is a story about Johnson from his halcyon political days in Texas that is pertinent today. The rough and tumble politician was running for re-election to the Senate in 1952 and while on one of his trademark barnstorming campaign swings through the state he met an old Democratic political colleague—a small town sheriff who was also running for re-election. The sheriff told Johnson that he was facing an unexpectedly strong challenger in his re-election bid. Not thinking twice, Johnson told the sheriff to put out the word that his opponent "fucked pigs." The sheriff responded coolly to the idea, saying that it just wasn't true. Johnson replied, "So what! Make the son of a bitch deny it!" The Democrats of today should take a lesson from LBJ. This election cannot be played by Marquess of Queensberry rules. The Bush thugs have to be hoisted on their own petards.
Let's not kid ourselves. The Republican Party is no longer the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt or General Eisenhower but the party of Joe McCarthy, David Duke, Tom DeLay, and a dangerous heavily German-accented demagogue named Arnold Schwarzenegger. Their standard bearer is a Caligula-like and learning disabled brutish oaf named George W. Bush. The Republicans have their own behind-the scenes Svengali- and Rasputin-like figures in the forms of Dick Cheney and Karl Rove.
In fact, the Republican Party is no longer even a political party. It is a dangerous, anti-constitutional movement that seeks the overthrow of our constitutional form of government by using smear tactics, racism, security force violence, and intimidation against the loyal opposition of this country.
Like Bush rallies across the land, the Republican convention brooked no dissension among its attendees. The world has not seen such displays of right-wing fanaticism since Adolf Hitler's Nuremberg Rally in Germany in 1938. Embracing neoconservative doctrines developed by crypto-Nazi ideologists like the late Professor Leo Strauss of the University of Chicago, the Republicans are the true heirs to National Socialist ideology and are the true traitors to this country. The Republican movement must be stopped at the polls on November 2 at all costs. The future of the United States of America assuredly depends on it.
The Republican machine has successfully negated the power of corporate media journalists, who can best be called "WIEMPRs." WIEMPR is an acronym for the last names of the Big Six Media corporate bigwigs Robert WRIGHT (NBC), Jeffrey IMMELT (GE/NBC), Michael EISNER (Disney/ABC), Rupert MURDOCH (News Corp./Fox News), Richard PARSONS (AOL Time Warner), and Sumner REDSTONE (Viacom/CBS) who take their orders from the White House and ensure that deep hitting investigative reports about the Bush regime are dead on arrival at media editorial and production offices. Stop listening to the WIEMPRs and their bogus polling data and baloney news stories.
The Internet is still a wellspring of political discourse. Something interesting happened recently in Virginia's 2nd Congressional District. Two-term Representative Ed Schrock, a conservative pro-military Republican from a conservative pro-military district that contains Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network's Virginia Beach headquarters, was rumored on two web sites to have engaged in solicitations on gay-oriented on-line chat rooms. BlogActive, a Washington, D.C. gay activist web site and Virginia News Source, a web site aligned to the Democratic Party, published the allegations about Schrock. No "mainstream" media outlets reported the allegations about Schrock. However, Schrock, an anti-gay retired U.S. Navy captain, abruptly announced that he would not run for re-election. This surprising turn of events opened the door for his Democratic opponent, David Ashe, an ex-Marine and veteran of the Iraq war, to gain control of a Republican seat in a district that was virtually written off by the establishment Democratic soothsayers inside the Beltway.
That is how this campaign against the Republicans has to be fought folks. The Republican hate fest in New York has to be challenged between now and Election Day. The so-called "bounce" for Bush has to be bounced right up his keister.
Four the past four years I have written about the crimes of the Bushes and their consiglieri (Karl Rove, James Baker, Tom DeLay, Ken Lay, "Bandar Bush," James Bath, Saudi bankers, the "good" and "bad" bin Ladens, etc.). So recently, the Bush Mafia decided to retaliate against me by using a Saudi billionaire banker friend of the Bush family to threaten me with a lawsuit under arcane English libel law. As far as the Bushes are concerned, independent journalists in the United States can be silenced by using their Saudi friends to abuse English courts and English libel laws. Such Bush-inspired backdoor censorship and intimidation has been directed against U.S.-based Internet sites, newspapers, documentary production companies, and think tanks. The Saudis have even tried to convince Saudis who appeared in their typical grand mufti in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 to sue Moore and Lion's Gate Productions in London courts.
But these Bush-influenced tactics won't work. In this manner, neoconservative and progressive journalists alike have been threatened in a similar manner. But the Bushes and their Saudi patrons have seriously miscalculated because in this matter, the neocons and myself are on the very same page. We have common cause against the Saudis and their influential whorish K Street law firms and public relations companies.
In a new book, Florida's courageous Democratic senior Senator Bob Graham has blown the whistle on the political relationship between the Bushes and Sauds. After the Bushes are routed from the White House, the neocons have my full support in striving for the downfall of the brutal and debauched House of Saud and replacing it with a democratic Arabia sans Saudis.
John Kerry must stop the practice of allowing uniformed White House Secret Service officers to harass journalists and documentary filmmakers on a sidewalk across from the Saudi Embassy in Washington. After Kerry's inauguration next January 20th, let the protestors and picket signs appear on Virginia Avenue and count me in!
Saudi Arabia is the only nation in the world where its official execution device appears on its national flag: the same type of sword used by executioners on Riyadh's infamous "chop chop square" appears just under the "shahada" inscription ("There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his Prophet'). And the Republicans claim Saddam Hussein's regime was a repugnant anachronism?
And after the Saudis are gone then let's turn our attention to the corrupt Russian Mafia gangsters that compose the Likud government in Israel. Never again let our Department of Defense become a virtual Israeli intelligence activity situated on the shores of the Potomac.
We must make sure that the likes of Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Stephen Cambone, Richard Perle, Newt Gingrich, William Luti, John Bolton, Harold Rhode, Abram Shulsky, James Woolsey, David Wurmser, Scooter Libby, Stephen Hadley, and Elliott Abrams never again illegally conspire to send young American men and women to foreign shores to die and be maimed for an imperialistic policy drawn up by political zealots in the government of a foreign power. Never again let foreign-directed agents of influence permit the United States military to become a vehicle for torture, child sexual abuse, and extrajudicial executions of civilians. The United States must adopt the same policies of Canada, Switzerland, Sweden, New Zealand, and Argentina—we must disengage from the tribal desert politics of the fundamentalists within the three violence-prone Abrahamic religions that seek to control the Middle East.
The United States must declare independence from the Texas cabal that seized control over our nation in 2001. And we must use LBJ's Texas tactics against the Republicans. Friends, on the issues that the Republicans cherish so much—family life and wholesomeness—the hypocritical Republicans can be picked off like fish in a barrel. What a surprise it will be for the religious conservatives when even more Ed Schrocks are discovered within the ranks of the GOP! Maybe they would never vote for John Kerry but if they stay home in disgust over the Republican charlatans in their midst, the Democrats could see the return of the House of Representatives and most assuredly will regain the White House and the Senate, and save the Supreme Court from being packed by fascist and racist justices for the foreseeable future.
Here are some simple marching orders to fight back against the racists, hypocrites, religious kooks, warmongers, and traitors in the Republican movement. Tip O'Neill once said that all politics are local. So are scandals. The Ed Schrock affair was known to many local Tidewater Virginia politicos. When people in the 2nd Congressional District began to compare notes with a Washington DC blog—Bingo! Schrock was history in his conservative district—a district that looks like it will be returned to the Democratic Party.
Now this is not to say that being gay is wrong—if Schrock were a Democrat he would not have to hide in the shadows and be embarrassed. Massachusetts Democratic Representative Barney Frank is proof of that. New Jersey Democratic Governor Jim McGreevey, caught up in an Israeli intelligence gay "honey trap" and who "outed" himself, was urged by many Democrats in his state not to resign and he actually saw his poll numbers increase by two points after his announcement. McGreevey will stay on as governor until November to prevent the GOP from engineering a California-style gubernatorial coup d'etat in the state. That is because the Democratic Party is a true "big tent" where gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and other minorities do not have to fear for themselves because of who they are. But when Republicans insist they are not gay bashers, racists, warmongers, and haters but highlight Ed Schrock, Trent Lott, Tom DeLay, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, the GOP's true hypocritical colors show brightly.
My play-by-play strategy to expose the Republicans hits these hypocrites where it hurts. Paraphrasing James Carville, "It's the hypocrisy, stupid!"
I would suggest that there are a number of Republicans like Illinois's former GOP Senate candidate Jack Ryan who dropped out after divorce papers revealed that he wanted to engage in voyeuristic sexcapades with his then-wife, actress Jeri Ryan who played "Seven of Nine" on Star Trek Voyager. That just about sums up the Republicans—marry a beautiful actress and then engage in one's most intimate moments before a live audience. Do they teach that at Bob Jones or Oral Roberts universities? The GOP meltdown in Illinois ensured that Barack Obama, the already popular Democrat, will cruise to victory with powerful coattails for John Kerry and other statewide Democratic candidates.
As with Ed Schrock and Jack Ryan, this playbook can be used across the United States. It can be implemented in Democratic and Republican states and congressional districts alike. Let's go for it!
First, there's Texas Governor Rick Perry. The Austin area has been abuzz with rumors that the neatly-coiffured Republican successor to George W. Bush has foraged on the other side of the sexual salad bar. If there was a Democrat Matt Drudge, this story may have driven Perry from office long ago. Marching orders for Texas: go after Perry! If the Republicans are still chortling over McGreevey's relationship with his Israeli Homeland Security adviser, wait until they get a load of the Republican successor to Bush and one of his cabinet officers! Let's pay back the Texas Legislature, Perry, and Tom DeLay for their theft of Democratic House seats in a scandalous redistricting!
California Democrats! It's time to look into Schwarzenegger's Odessa File. Here we have an Austrian émigré who wants the U.S. Constitution amended so that he can run for president. Where have we heard that before from an Austrian émigré who wanted a Constitution amended so that he could run for chancellor? Arnold has gone on the record admiring Adolf Hitler; his Brown Shirt father Gustav (who sported a Hitler-style moustache); and Gustav's friend, former SS officer and United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim.
So, let me get this. A young male Austrian bodybuilder, who once used the stage name "Arnold Strong," begins a career in Hollywood and soon appears naked in the gay hedonistic male magazine After Dark. He then stars as Conan the Barbarian a few years after he poses naked for photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, the bane of former Republican homophobe and racist Senator Jesse Helms. Perhaps it was Arnold's acting skills (Not!) that saw his career meteorically propelled into stardom without an interim stop on a casting couch or two. Compulsively, Arnold has been using his "girlie men" description of Democrats since 1988 at Bush-Quayle campaign rallies. He used "girlie men" to describe Democratic legislators in Sacramento and more recently to describe Democrats at the GOP Convention in New York. Schwarzenegger may, in fact, have an Ernst Roehm-style abhorrence for "girlie men." Could he have gone from a gropee to a groper?
Then there is Arnold the Liar. Before the Republican Convention, Schwarzenegger proclaimed that as a boy he witnessed Soviet tanks rumbling down the streets in his native Austria under a Socialist government. No Total Recall there. The Soviet Army withdrew from Austria's Styria Province in 1945, two years before Schwarzenegger was born. As for a Socialist Austrian government, every Austrian government from 1945 to 1970 was led by a conservative chancellor. It seems that Schwarzenegger has lived an entire life of True Lies.
But no one is more of a hypocrite than California's Christian Coalition-backed Republican Representative Ken Calvert, the Tom DeLay clone that represents California's 44th District. Calvert's ex-wife sued him for alimony delinquency. Calvert condemned Bill Clinton for his affair with Monica Lewinsky but he seemed to have forgotten that in 1993 police caught Calvert receiving oral sex from a prostitute. Calvert then tried to flee the scene. Pacifica Radio's Louis Vandenberg is challenging Calvert as the Democratic candidate. Democrats in the 44th District should comb the arrest and police records in the Los Angeles area for more interesting tidbits on Tom DeLay's good friend—Calvert the Whoremonger has likely been "active" elsewhere in and around his district.
As for other California hypocrites, Representative David Dreier is an interesting case in point. A darling of the goodie-two-shoes Family Research Council, Dreier not only headed up Schwarzenegger's campaign against Democratic Governor Gray Davis, but the radar scans from Capitol Hill rumor circuits have placed Dreier in and out of quite a few log cabins over his political career, which began after his graduation from California's Claremont Men's College in 1975. There's some red meat for you Democrats in California's 26th District. Go for it!
Similarly, rumors continue to swirl around Virginia's Senator George Allen, who, by all estimates, is one of the dullest knives in the Republican Senate's kitchen drawer. Allen, whose only claim to fame before he entered politics was that his father was an NFL football coach, has recently caused some discontent among Virginia's conservative fundamentalist circles—those boys down at Jerry Falwell's Liberty Baptist University in Lynchburg seem to be smelling some smoke around Allen. If the Democrats can get the Bible thumpers downstate to stay at home on Election Day, Kerry has a good chance to be the first Democrat to carry Virginia in 40 years. Let's go for it!
You claimed you never heard of Victor Ashe? What a shame. But people in Knoxville, Tennessee are very familiar with their former four-term mayor. There may be a very good reason why George W. Bush bundled his former Skull and Bones Yale roommate off to Warsaw to serve as U.S. ambassador there during a close election race. It seems that since he left Knoxville's City Hall in 2000, George W. Bush has been anxiously trying to find his friend Victor some work. He was first named to the board of Fannie Mae in Washington and then he was sent packing to the Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts to work with former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson. According to a Knoxville web site associated with the local Green Party, Ashe had some past run-ins with the law: two arrests for trying to pick up male transvestite prostitutes in Atlanta and Washington, DC. Forget the Texas Air National Guard! What was Bush and Ashe doing during those weird, sexually-explicit rituals within the Skull and Bones "Tomb" at Yale?
Where was Cheney? He was getting busted for drunk driving in Wyoming. How dare these Republican draft dodgers question the heroic deeds of John Kerry (Purple Hearts, Silver and Bronze Stars), Max Cleland (Purple Heart, Silver and Bronze Stars), and Gray Davis (who served as an Army Captain in Vietnam from 1968 to 1969 and earned a Bronze Star for meritorious service) who, while Bush and his Skull and Bones buddies were engaged in group masturbation rituals at Yale, were fighting in Vietnam.
And there are all those other Republican hypocrites. For former drug czar and Education Secretary William Bennett, whose moral virtues must include having your fat hiney whipped by a dominatrix after a heavy night of drinking and gambling in Las Vegas. Forget pressing John Kerry on what he did on the Mekong River in 1968—we know what he did and his shipmates have told us. Let's start asking Republicans about Bennett and "Mistress Lee" (aka Leola McConnell)!
Republican propagandist Rush Limbaugh should not only be asked about Wilma Cline, his former housekeeper and drug procurer, but his alleged 1971 Southeastern Missouri University affair with Elliot Sanders. Is that how old Rush got the pilonidal anal cyst that kept him out of the draft?
What about Florida's former Republican right-wing kooky congressman and newest "Blab TV" hatemonger Joe Scarborough? Hey, you Democrats in the Florida Panhandle (otherwise known as the Redneck Riviera)! Find out about who or what really killed Scarborough's congressional aide Lori Klausutis, whose body was found in Scarborough's office in Fort Walton Beach less than two months prior to 9-11. The cause of death was ruled a heart attack—pretty strange when one considers that the poor 28-year-old woman's initial autopsy indicated she died of severe fractures to the skull!
How about Mary Kay LeTourneau, the schoolteacher who served time in jail for having a sexual relationship with her 12-year-old Samoan male student? Turns out the Republican-controlled media never wanted you to know that LeTourneau's father was California's former extreme right-wing Republican Congressman John Schmitz, who himself was forced to admit in 1982 that he was the father of an infant boy who was admitted to an Orange County hospital with hair tied in a square knot so tightly around his penis that it was almost severed. It turns out that sexual molestation of students ran in the Schmitz family—Schmitz fathered the boy and another child with his mistress—a former student named Carla Stuckle who Schmitz taught when he was a professor at Santa Ana College.
Then there are the Bush siblings. Let's ask Jeb Bush about his repeated affairs out of wedlock. Is that what hooked daughter Noelle on prescription drugs? How did Katherine Harris, Jeb's former Secretary of State and chief election "fixer" and Jim Crow voting registration enforcer get her job? You Democrats in Florida know that it wasn't because of Katherine's great grasp of important issues of our time that she grabbed the Secretary of State job. Because the Cruella De Vil-like Katherine has gone down on just about everything but the Titanic, she is often mentioned by Florida's double-knit wearing and stale urine smelling elderly GOP country club set as a future senator or even president after her stint representing Sarasota and environs in the House of Representatives.
And Democrats in Florida might want to remind those Republicans who have had their country clubs, gated communities, and club houses damaged by two major hurricanes in one year that it was Vice President Al Gore who warned of such rapid succession killer storms as the Earth continues to trap greenhouse gasses in its fragile atmosphere. Jeb and brother George call such prognostications "silly science." Tell that to the people along the storm-ravaged Atlantic and Gulf coasts of Florida.
Let's also not forget the two other Bush brothers—Neil and Marvin—skanky businessmen with close ties to wealthy Arab leaders and businessmen, some of whom also have been close to the Taliban and al Qaeda-linked interests. In the case of Marvin, some of his Saudi and Kuwaiti business partners just so happened to have had major controlling interests in the companies that provided security for Dulles Airport and the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Neil has a particular hankering for Dubai, recently called the financial hub of al Qaeda's global operations.
Then there is First Sister Doro (Dorothy) Bush. She is married to a cousin of the wealthy but dysfunctional Koch Industries family of Kansas. Koch Industries is the second largest privately-owned company in America and one of the country's greatest polluters and land despoilers.
Barbara Bush, the First Daughter, may be the only Bush family member who wants to tell the truth about this sordid American version of Britain's weird Windsor family. Could Barb be the Princess Diana of America's royal family? At the recent GOP hatefest/convention, Barb seemed to be saying something about her family. Barbara: "I know it's hard to believe, but our parents favorite term of endearment for each other is actually 'Bushie.'" No Barb, it's not hard to believe. It must be like the Stepford Wives completing their perfect lifestyles with children. It's weird, but this is a weird family. Barbara also revealed: "We had a hamster, too let's just say . . . ours didn't make it." Ugh! Based on what we know about your dad and what he did to frogs when he was a boy in Midland, I hope the hamster died from natural causes! Another Barbara zinger: "Who is this man they call Dick Cheney?" Barb, I wish we knew but really, "Who is this Dick Cheney they call a man?" Five draft deferments because of "other priorities" sounds like something one of Schwarzenegger's "girlie men" might do. And the best cryptic message from Barb: "since we've graduated from college, we're looking around for something to do for the next few years . . . kind of like Dad." Yes, since Dad has been a complete disaster as our president [sic], what will he do for the next four years after he loses? Help Barney dig out armadillos on the "Ranch?" I doubt he will be in high demand on the speakers' circuit. Even if you pay the moron $2 million for a speech, who would want to sit through it?
Where is the Democratic outrage about Virginia Republican Senator John Warner turning over a Dirksen Senate Office Building reception room over to the Moonies so they could crown excommunicated Korean Presbyterian turned self-proclaimed Messiah Sun Myung Moon as, well, Messiah. Moon has even managed to save the souls of Schwarzenegger's favorite, Adolf Hitler, as well as Bush's Saudi friends' big man on the celestial campus, Mohammed. Moon has also had time to save the souls of Moses, Jesus, and Buddha. The Moonies, who are all certifiable lunatics, often receive Poppy Bush and son George as guest speakers at their various conclaves. Come on, Democrats! This is too easy. Let's find out what links the Bushes to a bunch of loony Moonies at the same time the Texas Borgias receive tons of moolah from the puritanical Saudi Wahhabis. What do all those Christian fundamentalist supporters of Bush have to say about that?
I could go on ad infinitum. But you get the drift, Democrats. It's time to dig up the dirt and throw it back in the faces of these Republican hypocrites. Print this article off and copy it on your corporate copiers after work or during lunch and give it to your religious friends on the right. Leave copies lying around on tables in Starbuck's. Stick it in the hymnals in churches. Post it in laundry rooms and student unions. We have less than two months to drive these maniacs away from Washington. I, for one, will vote absentee in Virginia and volunteer as a poll watcher in Jim Crow Florida. Let's fight back!
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