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Published Wednesday, May 14, 2008 | 2:25 p.m.
Updated Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008 | 10:15 a.m.
WASHINGTON — Politico today muses that Sheldon Adelson has become the George Soros of the right.
The paper reports that the Democrats' campaign committee in the House is tying Republican congressional candidates to unflattering portrayals of the casino mogul who is supporting their campaigns.
Adelson, you’ll remember, is a key force behind right-leaning group Freedom’s Watch, launched last year. One of Freedom Watch’s first efforts was to run ads to support lawmakers, including Nevada’s Republican Rep. Jon Porter, who backed the Iraq war. Adelson’s Sands Corp. makes him among the richest men in the world.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, as the party's campaign arm is called, has attacked Adelson in ads during recent special elections in the House, including the one this week in Mississippi.
For example, in a Mississippi radio ad, the paper reported, the Democratic committee asked why the Republican candidate was “’accepting support from ‘the world’s No. 1 casino czar and one of atheist China’s top American business partners.’”
The Democrats referred to Adelson’s Macau casino as “’an investment in a country that steals our jobs, persecutes Christians, uses forced labor and forces women to have abortions,’” Politico reported.
Here’s how the paper sums it up:
“The DCCC’s slash-and-burn attacks on Adelson and his group are notable for their resemblance to longstanding GOP efforts to brand Democrats as the lapdogs of billionaire financier George Soros and MoveOn.org, the liberal anti-war group Soros helped fund to protest the policies of President Bush.”
A Freedom’s Watch spokesman told the paper the anti-Adelson ads are “probably the most incredibly convoluted argument to ever come out” of the DCCC.
“Nobody in America – or in China, for that matter – believes the preposterous charge that (Adelson) is responsible for religious persecution and forced abortions,” the spokesman told the paper.
The spokesman went on to say that the attention from the Democrats “confirms for us that we make life uncomfortable for liberals,” Politico reported.
The Freedom’s Watch-backed candidate lost in Mississippi Tuesday night to the Democrat, as did another Republican candidate backed by the group in Louisana.
Well, we're also tying DINOs like Commissioners Tom Collins and Chris Giunchigliani, who have accepted cash from Adelson.
What is most dispicable about Adelson's so-called Freedom Watch is that they take the statements of our disabled veterans and gold star military families (who have lost a loved one in Iraq) blatantly and grossly out of context to produce political propaganda!
They ask a disabled vet "Would you be willing to go back..." - playing on the vets emotions and knowing that almost all wounded soldiers have a primordial desire to be with their buddies in harms way as a matter of a deep sense of duty - but, Freedom's Watch twists that response by saying "See, the troops support the war in Iraq and President Bush!" IT IS A LIE!
Freedom's Watch pulls and even worse tactic on parents of lost loved one's by asking questions like "Do you think your soldier died in vain?" Of course, grieving families are going to answer that question with a "No!" Then, Freedom's Watch twist that response into a sound bite and more political propaganda. IT IS THE WORST FORM OF A LIE!
Many in the Military, Military Families and Veterans community are loyal Democrats that do not always support Soros or MoveOn.org - and many were very upset with the General Patreaus - "Betray Us" ad campaign, as an example. But, it's one thing to question the integrity of a General - and quite another to prostitue the patriotism of our patriots - our troops and their families!
The Republicans are just whining because the political blow back is FINALLY coming back on them! The irony is we are using some of their own tactics to give them a good dose of their own sick medicine because it works!
I say, KUDOS to the DCCC for FINALLY fighting back with fire on fire!
Sheldon Adelson is a great man. He has committed billions to medical research and has helped a great deal of worthy charities. The DCCC or Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is filled with a bunch of losers.
Everyone knows that it is Adelson's wife Miriam that does all the great philathropic work - and Sheldon is due credit for having such a great wife - nobody disputes this truth.
But, Sheldon Adelson's has gone beyond the pale of decency by funding his "Freedom Watch" 527 political slime machine - and that's a FACT too!
Shame, SHAME on Adelson for prostituting the patriotism of our disabled vets and military families!