Discussion: Senator: TV Ad Using Ebola Scare To Attack Opponent Was 'Fair Game'

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Pryor should not be stooping to Tea Party tactics like this. Fear! is not a good campaign slogan.

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If you’re against the NIH and CDC, you’re for disease.

Fuck you Cotton, you own your votes.

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Fear is what wins midterm elections, sporto.

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Sorry, but this is a bush league campaign tactic. Legislator votes against six bad versions of a bill, finally gets a version he likes, and votes for it. Opponent says, “this guy voted against this measure SIX TIMES!!!” It’s just bullshit.

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Fair game is nearly a perfect representation of how these assholes look at the most critical issues facing America and its 'citizens…it is game to them…rigged by the machine whose requirements on the candidates that get elected are to be feckless…immoral and compliant.These pricks are destroying the foundations of America and the electorate tolerates the perverted approach to the process.

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You seem to be assuming that the version he decided he liked and voted for was one that accomplished the same goal. This is a Republican in a Republican-run House. I’m personally rather interested in finding out whether the version Cotton decided he liked was one that had all the actual funding stripped out or required that faith healers be given equal funding as doctors or something.

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That’s exactly what I was thinking… What was the “certain provision” that was removed, that led Cotton to vote for the later version?

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I think that this presentation is over the top. But the distinction being made between someone voting for public health and someone against it is fair. I guess this is just an extreme example. I think it is too far.

I think there are better examples within the US but not as attention grabbing as Ebola.

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Yes, that would be interesting. But the ad does absolutely nothing to answer that question, nor does it even pretend to explain how Cotton’s votes will help bring an Ebola epidemic to the U.S. It’s just shameless fear-mongering. Very GOP.

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This is far more relevant than GOPer warnings that Ebola will mosey across the Mexican border.

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Yeah, defunding efforts to contain the virus couldn’t possibly hurt us.

s/

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Folks in Harrison, AR (of KKK notoriety) fearful of having Ghanians visit their town because ebola virus

No evidence of ebola in Ghana----

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Harrison AR has already stirred the ebola fear TeaPot…

They refuse to have Ghanians visit their town …

Maybe because:
Ghanians are black…and harbor ebola

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They’re scared the Ghanians might want to settle in their town (which has participated in some ‘clean-up’ efforts in the not so distant past)

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So, did Cotton vote to defund efforts to contain the Ebola epidemic? If not, strawman.

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Sounds like you’re more interested with the question than the answer.

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I’ll let you know as soon as I hear an answer.

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DC Address:The Honorable Tom Cotton
United States House of Representatives
415 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-0404
DC Phone:202-225-3772DC Fax:202-225-1314
Contact Representative Cotton:https://cotton.house.gov/contact/email-me
WWW Homepage:http://cotton.house.gov/
Twitter:@RepTomCotton

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So what did he tell you?

It is not incumbent upon me to do the research. The Pryor ad implies that Cotton has voted against something that would have made an Ebola outbreak in the U.S. less likely. Prove it. Otherwise, this is just an example of sinking to the level of the Tea Partiers, and it smells bad.

When it comes to using sleazy campaign tactics, I don’t buy the “necessity defense.”

Edit: 62Fender, you’re clearly a well-informed, intelligent person. Does the implication contained in the Pryor ad seem even remotely plausible to you? Given what I think I know about the nature of the Ebola virus, the ad seems to be absurd on its face, unless Cotton voted to send everyone in AR to Liberia for a vacation.