Report: Dems planted NJ tea-party House candidate

[Skitzer]

This looks interesting.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101008/ap_on_el_ho/us_plant_candidate

MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. – A New Jersey Republican congressional candidate criticized his Democratic opponent Friday amid mounting evidence that Democratic officials planted a tea-party candidate in the race to siphon off conservative votes...........................

The operatives told the Courier-Post the plan was shared with members of the South Jersey Young Democrats, and some in that group gathered signatures for DeStefano — while others didn't because they thought the plan was unethical.

Not surprised too much by this revelation considering the rampant fear of losing seats in Congress the Dems are feeling right now.

Still a new low for the Dems.

 

[Jhhnn]

Yeh- the usual anonymous sources, the most reliable kind, obviously...

I thought the Tea Party was for everybody, not just Repubs? I remember the usual ravers here going on and on about how many Dems there were in the Tea Party... so forth and so on...

Things change, apparently, particularly when the Koch brothers throw their money into the hat...

 

[umbrella39]

Wait a minute. A dem can't run under the tea party umbrella?

So is the OP saying the TP = GOP and there are no dems allowed?

 

[Skitzer]

Wait a minute. A dem can't run under the tea party umbrella?

So is the OP saying the TP = GOP and there are no dems allowed?

Sure they can ...... if they're honest about it.

 

[ProfJohn]

Wait a minute. A dem can't run under the tea party umbrella?

So is the OP saying the TP = GOP and there are no dems allowed?

Did you read the story??

The Democrat running for congress got a bunch of his volunteers to go out and fill out petitions to get the tea party guy on the ballot. The tea party guy's website is run by a Democrat etc etc etc.

At the least this is fraud, whether or not it will be come criminal fraud is still unknown, but it is certainly election fraud.

 

[Turin39789]

So the tea party guy is a legitimate tea party guy, but the dems helped him out.

They didn't have Al Franken go out and lie about being a tea partier and talk crazy until he got elected when he could initiate his secret liberal time bomb?

They basically did what I have heard both dems and repubs talk about, registering in the opposite party and trying to elect the weaker candidate through the primary?

- I didn't click the link! But yea it's not something I would approve of or endorse.

 

[Corn]

So the tea party guy is a legitimate tea party guy, but the dems helped him out.

They didn't have Al Franken go out and lie about being a tea partier and talk crazy until he got elected when he could initiate his secret liberal time bomb?

They basically did what I have heard both dems and repubs talk about, registering in the opposite party and trying to elect the weaker candidate through the primary?

- I didn't click the link! But yea it's not something I would approve of or endorse.

It is doubtful the "tea party guy" is legitimate. He is running as an Independent candidate with no ties to any legitimate tea party orginazations in NJ, he's a plant meant to confuse and siphon away conservative votes. But hey, if Democrats can't win on their platform alone, well then, it guess as far as the average lefty is concerned (as evidenced by Jhnnn and Umbrella), that it is perfectly fine to try to cheat your way into winning elections.

Silly, pathetic, and ethically challenged liberals. You stupid motherfuckers just can help revealing your lack of integrity time after time after time: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2103253

 

[Jhhnn]

It is doubtful the "tea party guy" is legitimate. He is running as an Independent candidate with no ties to any legitimate tea party orginazations in NJ, he's a plant meant to confuse and siphon away conservative votes. But hey, if Democrats can't win on their platform alone, well then, it guess as far as the average lefty is concerned (as evidenced by Jhnnn and Umbrella), that it is perfectly fine to try to cheat your way into winning elections.

Silly, pathetic, and ethically challenged liberals. You stupid motherfuckers just can help revealing your lack of integrity time after time after time: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2103253

Hey, if it's really that easy, then you're using the "stupid motherfuckers" attack on the wrong people...

 

[Corn]

Hey, if it's really that easy, then you're using the "stupid motherfuckers" attack on the wrong people...

You heard it here folks, victims of elaborate fraud schemes are to blame, not the fraudsters. Your lack of ethics regarding the integrity of our election systems most likely extends to other areas as well, I'm sure. Pathetic.......

 

[Jhhnn]

You act as if anonymous sources are something they're not, Corn- credible. And you readily take on the mantle of victimhood where none may even exist, other than in your imagination.

This isn't like deceptively edited videos about acorn, partisan election machine providers, partisan purging voter rolls of people who really are eligible, or anything quite like that.

Nor is it quite like Iraqi WMD's or a reconstituted Iraqi nuclear program, the Ownership Society, the Brooks Brothers' riot or Willie Horton, either.

It's about a guy who did what's required to get his name on the ballot as an independent, and who uses "Tea Party" in his slogan. Repub leaders actually enabled this sort of thing when they consciously chose to support the Tea Party as being something it's not, something independent of the republican party.

If you're willing to offer that what we have is the possibility of fraud being perpetrated against actual fraud, you might have a point.

 

[Corn]

You act as if anonymous sources are something they're not, Corn- credible. And you readily take on the mantle of victimhood where none may even exist, other than in your imagination.

This isn't like deceptively edited videos about acorn, partisan election machine providers, partisan purging voter rolls of people who really are eligible, or anything quite like that.

Nor is it quite like Iraqi WMD's or a reconstituted Iraqi nuclear program, the Ownership Society, the Brooks Brothers' riot or Willie Horton, either.

It's about a guy who did what's required to get his name on the ballot as an independent, and who uses "Tea Party" in his slogan. Repub leaders actually enabled this sort of thing when they consciously chose to support the Tea Party as being something it's not, something independent of the republican party.

If you're willing to offer that what we have is the possibility of fraud being perpetrated against actual fraud, you might have a point.

That's right folks, its all good because someone else might have done something too.

Hey, if it ends up being legit, then so be it.

But if the allegations are true and you won't admit that employees or volunteers of the Democrat Party who actively assist someone running *in opposition to their party* isn't unethical or committing downright fraud, well, you are just being you: Pathetic.

I can see the pride within you swell as you witness the deceitful actions of your fellow lefty fraudsters.You are no better than those other examples you cite.

Integrity: find some.

 

[IronWing]

Hmm, sounds suspiciously like what the Repubs did to the Greens in Arizona this year.

 

[Steeplerot]

Hmm, sounds suspiciously like what the Repubs did to the Greens in Arizona this year.

The Dems do it to the Greens (and Nader) too every cycle. It's politics.

 

[Throckmorton]

This is totally fair game, just like when Republicans planted those homeless candidates, and Al Green.

If you're stupid enough to vote for the plant, you don't deserve to win the election.

 

[dawp]

republicans did the same thing in past elections with the green party.

 

[dmcowen674]

Report: Dems planted NJ tea-party House candidate

Still a new low for the Dems.

Awesome, about time they learn to use the tactics Republicans have been doing for decades. :thumbsup:

 

[umbrella39]

yawn... the TP belongs to all!!!

 

[halik]

This is totally fair game, just like when Republicans planted those homeless candidates, and Al Green.

If you're stupid enough to vote for the plant, you don't deserve to win the election.

My sentiment exactly; if your voter base are morAns, that's what you get.

 

[dammitgibs]

This is totally fair game, just like when Republicans planted those homeless candidates, and Al Green.

If you're stupid enough to vote for the plant, you don't deserve to win the election.

I thought they found out that Al Green wasn't a Republican plant? Just shows both the parties are equally scummy.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

I thought they found out that Al Green wasn't a Republican plant? Just shows both the parties are equally scummy.

That's correct. The only "evidence" was that Green turned out to be a nightmare and they wanted to blame someone else for it.

I don't know if this guy is a plant or not, but looking at the party apologists I see no reason to pick anyone they offer. The best they can say is that they have less crap smeared on themselves, and that's dubious.

I can't figure out a reason to vote in a national election, but I'll do my best to get the Dems out of NY because they've ruined this state.

 

[thegimp03]

Sad state of affairs when dems attempt this to try to save face in November.