Elizabeth Dole now embraces religious persecution!

[RiverStone]

This is about as un-American as you can get. How dare she attempt to raise the merits of her campaign, by denigrating the religious (or in this case, non-religious views) of a candidate!

Just as a few neanderthals have tried to inject hate and prejudice into the presidential race targeting the Muslim faith as a bad thing, so does Elizabeth with this ad. Kay Hagen has a right to her private beliefs, be it Atheist or otherwise!

Dole has succumbed to the worst elements of bigotry and this ad further exemplifies the danger of airing it. Are there not laws against targeting a person's religion using the public airwaves?

(CNN) — The already-contentious North Carolina Senate race took a brutal turn Wednesday after incumbent Sen. Elizabeth Dole released a television ad suggesting challenger Kay Hagan is "Godless."

“A leader of the Godless Americans PAC recently held a secret fundraiser for Kay Hagan,” the 30-second ad says before showing clips from members of the group declaring God and Jesus do not exist.

“Godless Americans and Kay Hagan. She hid from cameras. Took godless money,” the ad's narrator also says. “What did Kay Hagan promise in return?”

The ad ends with a female voice declaring, "There is no God." That quote is delivered by someone who sounds like Hagan, but those words have never been said by the candidate.

The Dole campaign says it's basing its charge on Hagan's attendance at a fundraiser that was in the home of an advisor to the Godless Americans’ political action committee, a group that promotes rights for atheists.

In a conference call with reporters Wednesday, Hagan said she has never heard of the Godless PAC and said the fundraiser in question had more than 40 hosts, including Sen. John Kerry. She also said she has contacted her lawyers to issue a cease-and-desist order on the commercial.

"I am absolutely appalled at Elizabeth Dole's vile tactics," Hagan said. “This is politics of the worst kind, and I know it has been rejected by North Carolinians at every level. It is so unbecoming of a woman like Elizabeth Dole. This is a fabricated, pathetic ad."

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[RiverStone]

1. Ooops, meant to post in GE --- and Liz Dole is still an f'ing idiot bigot!

[NokeDem]

4. Makes me want to vomit...

[Orsino]

2. Perfectly legal, as far as I know.

But desperate and pathetic, too. I won't be sorry to see the last of dear Liddy.

[Lance_Boyle]

3. Kay Hagan is an Elder in her Greensboro-area Presbyterian church.

Liddy Dole is a fetid stream of weasel diarrhea. This athiest will be happy to vote her right the fuck out of this state she's managed to visit 3 or 4 times while "representing" it.

[wishlist]

5. The fundies Dole wants, do think Catholics and mainstream Presbyterians are 'godless'

Kay Hagan is a Sunday School teacher and elder at a mainstream Presbyterian Church, but not the right wing conservative dominionist wing of Presbyterians. John Kerry was also at that fundraising event. Interesting that Kay Hagan has never even heard of the so called 'Godless Pac'. Another despicable fabrication by the desperate Repubs. It was on my TV this morning in NC, I wasn't watching but could hear the TV and it is indeed a head turner when you hear the voice saying 'There is no God' and see Kay Hagan! Glad Hagan is fighting this with lawyers.

[RiverStone]

8. Lie now, then apologize after the election is the strategy

I really hope your fellow North Carolinians can see through this b.s.

BTW, how is it looking for Obama from the front lines in NC?

[Blackhatjack]

6. I'm telling you Dole is running the dirtiest campaign in the country... hands down

There are limits to even political speech.

[LeftishBrit]

7. Sickening

'Promotes rights for atheists' - are we not supposed to have any rights? What's she running for, leader of the Taliban?

In the UK - which does not have official church/state separation - we have loads of atheist MPs. Mine is an official in the National Secular Society. Tactics like Dole's would backfire badly in most places here.

Isn't that Bob Dole's wife? Is he a religious fanatic too? Or is she pandering to former Helms voters?