Reed takes it too far....(DMR) I guess he doesn't want be left out of the dirty politics party?

[Debi]

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20081024/NEWS09/810240379&theme=CAMPAIGN_2008

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Christopher Reed accused Sen. Tom Harkin on Thursday of "providing aid and comfort to the enemy" in Iraq. Reed made the comments during a one-hour televised forum sponsored by The Des Moines Register and broadcast on Iowa Public Television. "We're taking advice from somebody who has an eight-year history of becoming the Tokyo Rose of al-Qaida and Middle East terrorism," Reed said, referring to his Democrat opponent.

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Reed, seeking his first public office, said Harkin's support for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq on a scheduled timetable was the same as "providing aid and comfort to the enemy." "The white flag of surrender, accusing our Marines of torture, voting to defund our troops while they are in harm's way, those are all records of having an anti-American policy," said Reed, a Marion businessman.

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Reed stopped short of accusing Harkin of treason, when asked by moderator David Yepsen, the Register's political columnist, to clarify his remarks. "No. I'm accusing him of giving our enemies the playbook," Reed said.

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Harkin, 68, and Reed, 36, are both U.S. Navy veterans.

Harkin, who voted for the resolution to authorize military force in Iraq six years ago, has for years said he regrets that vote. Harkin he supports the Bush administration's negotiations with Iraq on setting a timetable for an orderly withdrawal of troops.

Harkin told reporters after the taping that Reed had "kind of lost his bearings." The senator was even more direct with Reed. "You're a nice young man, and I thought you had a political future ahead of you," Harkin said in the television studio after the taping.

"But that just ended your political career right there."

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[rurallib]

1. betchya Steve King is his hero

Iowa does not need any more embarrassments like King.

[Debi]

3. He better enjoy the next 11 days b/c I agree with Harkin

His political career is over.

[47of74]

2. Reed probably figures McCain and Palin need company in the sewer.

[Debi]

4. Hope it's warm down there n/t

[Blue Gardener]

5. More anti-American BS

Has he been talking to Michelle Bachmann? WTF is wrong with these people? I hope he makes it as "Worst Person in the World" on Countdown.

[progressoid]

7. I think people are finally getting wise to their attacks.

With all that has happened in the last decade, I think the more sensible among us aren't buying the usual RW crap anymore.

And since those old tactics aren't working, they are left to scrape the bottom of the barrel.

[Bluzmann57]

6. Saw some of that exchange

And Harkin was visibly angry. I believe that if he could have, he would have dropped some swear words on him, Navy man to Navy boy. Reed is just another gutter slime repub. People here in Iowa won't stand for that crap, especially against a respected man like Harkin.

[pstans]

8. A quick run through the Republican blogs and Reed is a hit

He said what the Republican base has been dying to say.

[Debi]

9. The same republican base that kicked the moderates off their Central Committee

and replaced them with right wingers? :eyes: