Tim Shallenburger’s tendency to shoot from the lip is usually to his credit as chairman of the Kansas Republican Party. But he went over the top last week in instantly condemning Democratic attorney general candidate Paul Morrison as having “pulled a Benedict Arnold” by switching parties. Ditto Shallenburger’s suggestion that the Johnson County district attorney was somehow culpable for the 2000 Wichita killing spree of Reginald and Jonathan Carr. And describing a 25-year criminal prosecutor with a 98 percent jury trial conviction rate as “soft on crime”? Puh-leese. Voters need to decide this contest on issues, not insults.
Posted by Rhonda Holman
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Well something needed to be done to get the A.G.’s office back on track. Kline has his own personal agenda and interests; not in the best interest of the state.
Oh please, it’s standard politics from both parties to call someone who switches parties “Benedict Arnold.” Relax. Besides, it’s not as though Kline hasn’t had to endure his fair share of cheap shots by the Dems.
Puh-lease Rhonda! A 98% conviction rate simply means that the jury decided in your favor 98% of the time. Conviction rates do not indicate hard or soft on crime.
Perhaps Rhonda could use the resources of the Eagle to determine how often the same D.A. refused to bring charges after the police filed their report and showed evidence. That would give you an indication of “soft on crime.”
PM,Those figures might not have anything to do with “soft on crime,” they might reflect the incompetence of the police dept. too.I don’t think anybody’s “soft on crime,” but there’s some disagreement on where the line between “tough on crime,” and “just plain mean sonofabitch” should be drawn.
Republican party should stop using insults in its campaigns?
Hoo boy, that’s rich.
Here’s a short course–
1988–Geo. H. W. Bush overcomes a sizeable deficit in the polls by morphing black killer/rapist Willie Horton’s face with Michael Dukkais’s in the presidential race.
1994–Todd Tiahrt defeats 4th district Congressman Dan Glickman by morphing Glickman’s face into Bill Clinton’s and back again.
He also ran vowing to balance the budget and to impliment term limits. With the US more in-debt than ever, Mr. Tiahrt plans on running for his sixth term, heigh-ho.
1999-2000 Bush partisan spread lies that Gore said he “invented the internet, hahaha.” Despite the fact that Gore never even implied this, the right-wing echo chamber repeated this a million times until the mainstream media picked this up and ran with it.
2001–Bush hacks accuse outgoing Clinton and administration officials of vandalizing the White House and stealing gifts. “The tore the W key off the computer keyboards etc. etc.”
The GAO quietly reports months later that these anecdotes are false.
2004–Team Bush outdoes itself with the cheap shots and despicable lies against John Kerry’s war record. The man who won a silver star, a bronze star with V for valor, and three purple hearts saw his service ridiculed with “purple heart band-aids” stuck to fat, ugly conservative faces at the Republican national convention.
2005–Impartial Texas prosecutor Ron Earle who has charged more Democrats than Republicans by a factor of about 6 to one is compared to a vicious attack dog in ads run by indicted (former) House Majority leader Trent Lott.
Take away insults and ad homenim attacks, and you take away the entire Republican platform.
Oops, forgot a few more.
1999, front running Senator McCain knocked out by whisper campaign that he had fathered an illegitimate black child. The “black child” was an adopted daughter from Sri Lanka.
2003, in a move to discredit Joe Wilson and create a climate of fear for any dissentors of the Iraq war, Valerie Plame Wilson was outed as a CIA agent to journalists by Lewis Libby and Karl Rove.