# Hillary and Osama linked by GOP **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 15, 2006, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-and-osama-linked-by-gop/368878 "2006-08-15T21:39:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-and-osama-linked-by-gop/368878/1 "2006-08-15T21:39:58Z")
[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,208462,00.html](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,208462,00.html) A new low, even for the Republicans. I don’t care nutball this guy is, if the GOP doesn’t kill that ad immediately and censure him with a vengeance, I’ll… not vote for them in the next election, which is what I was going to do anyway. But this is getting ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-and-osama-linked-by-gop/368878/2 "2006-08-15T22:53:58Z")
Jeez, why don’t they just show a picture of Hillary with horns and a little Hitler mustache drawn in with a Sharpie pen? I’ve got no dog in this particular fight, being locate pretty far from upstate New York, but political ads these days seem to be about as factually reliable as your average Internet chain letter. In fact, nore and more often, adverts tend to make me want to vote against the campaign that placed the ad more than for them. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-and-osama-linked-by-gop/368878/3 "2006-08-15T23:12:40Z")
Nutty. Just plain nutty. Does this guy think he has even the slightest of chances to win against Hill? Save your money and go to the track, dude. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-and-osama-linked-by-gop/368878/4 "2006-08-15T23:25:21Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace] Nutty. Just plain nutty. Does this guy think he has even the slightest of chances to win against Hill? Save your money and go to the track, dude. [/QUOTE] Nonsense. I think he needs to try harder. Why go down with quiet dignity when you can go out screaming and flailing like a jackass. I think we need ads accusing Hillary of lesbianism and murder. Now that I think of it, people tend not to vote for aliens. Give us ads proclaiming Hillary is an alien with acid for blood and a second bitey mouth inside her first mouth. Even better idea: Ann Coulter as the new campaign spokesperson. Come on John. Do you want to go out like a fart in a breeze? I think not! Let’s light that bad boy and go out in a blaze of _ahem_ glory! ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-and-osama-linked-by-gop/368878/5 "2006-08-15T23:30:34Z")
[QUOTE=El\_Kabong] Jeez, why don’t they just show a picture of Hillary with horns and a little Hitler mustache drawn in with a Sharpie pen? [/QUOTE] The little mustache is reserved for [Howard Dean](http://www.google.com/search?q=rnc+dean+hitler+mustache&hl=en&hs=0Bn&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&start=10&sa=N). ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-and-osama-linked-by-gop/368878/6 "2006-08-15T23:33:19Z")
[QUOTE=Harborwolf] I think we need ads accusing Hillary of lesbianism and murder. [/QUOTE] I’ve seen both accusations. VInce Foster ring any bells? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-and-osama-linked-by-gop/368878/7 "2006-08-15T23:37:07Z")
[QUOTE=wring] VInce Foster ring any bells? [/QUOTE] He might’ve. God knows where some of those skull fragments ended up. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-and-osama-linked-by-gop/368878/8 "2006-08-15T23:41:57Z")
[QUOTE=wring] VInce Foster ring any bells? [/QUOTE] Not anymore he doesn’t. Yeah. Bad joke. And on preview El Cid kind of beat me to it. \ And I know those have been done. That’s why they make a perfect launching point into the really spectacular stuff. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-and-osama-linked-by-gop/368878/9 "2006-08-15T23:43:33Z")
I’m surprised it took the Republicans this long to stoop so low. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-and-osama-linked-by-gop/368878/10 "2006-08-15T23:48:00Z")
Vince Foster was a lesbian? ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-and-osama-linked-by-gop/368878/11 "2006-08-15T23:58:34Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] Vince Foster was a lesbian? [/QUOTE] why else would Hilary have shot him? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-and-osama-linked-by-gop/368878/12 "2006-08-15T23:59:54Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] Vince Foster was a lesbian? [/QUOTE] Yes, but he didn’t inhale. ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-and-osama-linked-by-gop/368878/13 "2006-08-16T00:03:17Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] Vince Foster was a lesbian? [/QUOTE] Of course she was, or do you not think that the name Vince has butch written all over it? ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-and-osama-linked-by-gop/368878/14 "2006-08-16T01:34:40Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace] Nutty. Just plain nutty. Does this guy think he has even the slightest of chances to win against Hill? Save your money and go to the track, dude. [/QUOTE] Geez, **John** , that’s a ringing condemnation there. The way you worded your post, it sounds like you’re implying that, if the guy actually had a chance of beating Clinton, the ad might somehow be acceptable or understandable. I’m pretty sure that’s not what you think, but someone who didn’t know you better might be forgiven for misinterpreting your post. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-and-osama-linked-by-gop/368878/15 "2006-08-16T02:03:26Z")
Didn’t you hear? Dr Jesus came down from heaven to warn President Bush that Hillary Clinton is really the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-and-osama-linked-by-gop/368878/16 "2006-08-16T02:15:20Z")
It’s defensible to argue that Senator Clinton’s policies have (or would) leave us less-well defended from terror attacks than the policies her opponent would presumably champion. It’s utterly INdefensible to make that argument in a way that suggests the Senator and bin Laden are linked or that one supports or approves of the other. Crappy, crummy, dogshit-level advertising. I don’t know who would take a clown like that seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-and-osama-linked-by-gop/368878/17 "2006-08-16T02:27:05Z")
> [@](#): > > I don’t know who would take a clown like that seriously. The 50% of Americans who recently said they believed we found WMDs in Iraq? ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-and-osama-linked-by-gop/368878/18 "2006-08-16T02:50:22Z")
Boy. Talk about guilt by association. What the Hell did Osama do to deserve _that_? ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-and-osama-linked-by-gop/368878/19 "2006-08-16T02:51:28Z")
[QUOTE=Bricker] I don’t know who would take a clown like that seriously. [/QUOTE] Another [clown](http://media.www.studlife.com/media/storage/paper337/news/2003/09/22/News/Audience.Wrestles.With.Ultimate.Warriors.Conservative.Agenda-471771.shtml?sourcedomain=www.studlife.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com) maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-and-osama-linked-by-gop/368878/20 "2006-08-16T03:59:16Z")
[QUOTE=rjung] I’m surprised it took the Republicans this long to stoop so low. [/QUOTE] Have you forgotten Saxby Chambliss’ ad used against Max Cleland? > **[Redirect Notice](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.salon.com%2Fnews%2Ffeature%2F2003%2F11%2F21%2Fcleland%2F&ei=eZbiRMCsDbKCiAHRwrA0&sig2=_9nqIo91OSRDt2rXQ12Zlw)** > [@salon.com](#): > > It’s hard to imagine any recent Democratic senator less soft on national security than Max Cleland, a reflection on the unlikely path he took to the U.S. Senate. In 1967 he volunteered for combat duty. The next year, during the siege of Khe Sahn, Cleland lost both his legs and his right hand to a Viet Cong grenade. Two years later, at the age of 28, he became the youngest person ever elected to the Georgia state Senate. In 1977 President Jimmy Carter appointed him to head the Veterans Administration. He later became Georgia’s secretary of state. And in 1996, Georgia voters sent Cleland and his wheelchair to the Senate. > > … > > Cleland’s opponent, Saxby Chambliss, who sat out Vietnam with a bad knee, aired a spot featuring unflattering pictures of Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein … and Max Cleland. Chambliss charged Cleland, the Vietnam vet amputee, was soft on national security because he’d voted against creating the Homeland Security Act. In truth, Cleland co-wrote the legislation to create the Homeland Security Department, but objected to repeated attempts by the White House to deprive future Homeland Security employees of traditional civil service protection. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-and-osama-linked-by-gop/368878.md?page=2)