The Republican Party is taking a great moral leap in welcoming Rep. Parker Griffith to the caucus — accepting someone who they believe deliberately gave poor care to cancer patients in order to make money off of them, and who hates America and sympathizes with radical Muslims on top of that. At least, that’s what their ads against him in 2008 said!
Griffith, of course, is the Alabama Congressman who who just officially announced in the last few minutes that he is switching parties, from being a conservative Democrat to being a conservative Republican. The National Republican Congressional Committee ran some pretty hard-hitting spots against Griffith in the 2008 campaign — which were taken down from their YouTube account today. However, a source with an interest in the race was able to capture them first, and gave them to us.
Here’s one that accuses Griffith, a medical doctor, of a practice known as “warehousing” cancer patients — meaning to deliberately give poor care to patients in order to keep them bedridden and make more money from their medical treatments. “His approach caused unwarranted pain and suffering,” the announcer said, “but it meant more money for him.”
Another ad accuses Griffith of hating America, and apparently even sympathizing with radical Islam — with audio of the candidate himself speaking! “America’s greatest enemy is America, and its materialism…We have nothing to fear from radical Islam.” The ad then repeated the audio of him saying “America’s greatest enemy is America,” and the announcer declared him “wrong for Alabama.”
