I just got finished watching the former something or other from the devastated Wesley Clark Campaign and boy was he spinning. It would seem they have the idea that President Bush has been campaigning for sometime and that his campaign has been incredibly negative. I find this assertion not only incredible but also completely disingenuous.

Throughout the Democratic primaries each and every one of the candidates has perpetrated the vilest politically based slander that politics has ever seen. They have called George W. Bush a deserter, a miserable failure, a warmonger and a cowboy. When they weren’t screaming from the liberally created mountain inciting people to Bush-hate, they were digging through the trashcan of yesterday’s news trying to find something to sensationalize about the President. In a contest where Democrats were supposed to face-off against each other in order to find the one candidate among them that reflected what the Democratic Party believes, the only thing we heard from all of them, every one of them, was that Bush needed to be defeated.

I have to tip my "hate” to that habitual liar Terry McAuliffe, he has certainly spun the spotlight off of the fact his party has no message, no plan, no character and no candidate able to ascend to the highest office in the land without using smear tactics and untruths as their campaign base. Their platform has been to point the finger at the RNC and President Bush saying, "You are manipulating the truth!” But the truth is, the RNC and President Bush haven’t said a word they haven’t been able to back up. It is amazing how the DNC and the Narcissistic Nine simply made up stories when moments required them and touted them as actual in an effort to skew the vision of the American people; the proliferation of unfounded rhetoric based on rumors, innuendo and non-truths.

It continues today with the likes of Charlie Rangel saying there is so much more to be looked at with regard to George W. Bush’s service records from the Texas Air National Guard. This dying subject, an issue that has been satisfied even in the eyes of many of the Democratic persuasion, is being beaten to death worse than a blind Girl Scout pitted against Mike Tyson after she called him an illiterate racist. Rangel, and the others who are exasperating this issue, do so in the face of the fact John Kerry left his service in the military 6 months early because of his "conscience.” This fact goes unpublished, unaddressed and hidden in every way from the public, courtesy of the spin machine that is the DNC.

While the DNC and Kerry’s campaign scream anti-Americanism and accuse people of being anti-War Hero every time anyone attempts to question John Kerry’s actions before, during and after his time in the US military, McAuliffe has no problem citing quotes from the president’s former Alabama National Guard base commander, who has been diagnosed with beginning stages of Alzheimer’s, that he cannot remember ever seeing Bush during his time in the Guard (the former base commander has since recanted the allegation of having never seen the President during his service there). The DNC and Terry McAuliffe took advantage of a man who probably won’t remember they used his disease in a disgraceful manner to smear a good man. This should sicken everyone. They say they want to debate the issues of the day yet they employ tactics such as this to get their "message” out to the American people. If this is a sign of what we should expect from the DNC we had better get ready for a feces storm because "it is a comin’.”

The DNC and the candidates that are supported by them are not new to this type of campaigning. We saw it in 2000 when Al Gore’s unfounded assertions were exposed as fictionalized rhetoric. In fact, I believe that we all got a good laugh out of his contentions that he "invented the Internet” and that the movie Love Story was based on his and Tipper’s marriage. While these things sounded good and may have coaxed a collective and reflective sigh from his supporters it certainly hurt his credibility when he was exposed for his love of fantasy with regard to his past.

So too were the DNC’s smear tactics exposed when Ronald Reagan was running for office in 1980. It was almost impossible not to hear the Democrat’s allegation that Reagan was a warmonger and that if elected we would most certainly be moved toward nuclear war. But just like so much of their unfounded rhetoric, these absurdities faded in the light of the Cold War being won and the Berlin Wall coming down. And now as President Reagan struggles with Alzheimer’s disease they try to re-write history with a bad made for television movie that goes to great lengths to smear the legacy of another good man, one created through strength, truth and true patriotism.

The truth be told, it is the DNC and the Democratic candidates that dabble in the tactics of smear. They see nothing wrong with manipulating the facts and bastardizing the truth so they can skew the vision of the American people while scaring the living daylights out of those who find themselves gullible. They use the tactic that Adolph Hitler championed in his sick and twisted march to power, saying something enough times so that the populace embraces it as truth, even if it isn’t. It would seem today that they have added the tactic of using those afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease to further their cause as well, regardless of whether it is beneath contempt or not.

Yes, this is going to be the dirtiest political campaign the United States has ever seen and you can thank the DNC and especially Terry McAuliffe for that. One can only hope that after Kerry gets handed his defeat in November 2004 the Democratic rank and file realizes that McAuliffe is a shyster, a scammer, and that he should be excommunicated from the political scene all together. Maybe they can ship him to Iraq to help with their election process…but then we want free and open elections there.

Frank Salvato is a political media consultant and the managing editor for The New Media Journal.us. He is a contributing writer for The Washington Dispatch, GOPUSA, OpinionEditorials, Men’s News Daily, Canada Free Press & AmericanDaily. His pieces are regularly featured in Townhall.com. He has appeared as a guest on The O’Reilly Factor, The Kevin Matthews Radio Show (Chicago) and The Brad Messer Radio Show (San Antonio). His pieces have been recognized by the Japan Center for Conflict Prevention and are occasionally featured in The Washington Times and The London Morning Paper as well as other national and international publications.