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This looks like the time honored Republican 'ratfucking' - and in this case it looks bad for both candidates, a recent development in Karl Rove's quiver full of spit.
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May 9th, 2006 at 4:27 pm 2. Rove 3. Sexual abuse of a rat aka ratfucking
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Humphrey's '68 running mate, Edmund Muskie, was the establishment pick and considered the Democratic front-runner, until a poor showing in Iowa, some successful Nixon "ratfucking," and a few tears sent his campaign into a tailspin, and the nomination eventually went to McGovern.
Jennifer Nix: History Lesson for Robert Torricelli...and Hillary Clinton 2008
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Such false-flag harassment was a crucial part of "ratfucking" operations in Richard Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign -- to take just one example, Nixon agents circulated fliers in the Milwaukee ghetto advertising a non-existent "free lunch" sponsored by the Democrats.
Hullabaloo 2006
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You do what works, and unfortunately Nixon's "ratfucking" methods have worked fairly consistently since they came to pass.
Hey, John, You Listening? keith_london 2004
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Such false-flag harassment was a crucial part of "ratfucking" operations in Richard Nixon's
Multi Medium 2008
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Are you talking about the “starve the beast” societal ratfucking that Republicans have been engaged in since Reagan?
Matthew Yglesias » “Taking Money From One Place and Giving it To Another Place” 2010
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His last gasp hope of saving his ass by pretending to be a liberal ends when it is pointed out that he really is a ratfucking PUMA.
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » 50 Most Loathesome People 2009
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Segretti referred to his techniques as "ratfucking."
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Either the campaign needs volunteers to call people and let them know who to call to see if they've been purged, and in states where it looks like just more of the same old Republican ratfucking, ads pointing it out.
alexz commented on the word ratfucking
'If the path to electoral crime is rarely trodden, there is a close alternative, what Nixon’s people called “ratfucking” – acts of sabotage to damage an opponent.'
Spotted this term in a Guardian article about the Canadian election.
October 19, 2015
madmouth commented on the word ratfucking
the implied typology of what Nixon's people called ratfucking dizzies the moral fabric
October 19, 2015