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Originally Posted by Nebe
its acts like that that have ruined the GOP.. Going negative trumps real issues with them. Palin's speech had more negative issues about obama than positive issues about Mccain..  |
It's effective. From Willie Horton, to McCain's love baby, to margainalizing Gore as a liberal whacko, to Swift boating Kerry. The only time it didn't work was with Clinton, because as much as they tried to paint him as a liberal tax and spender, they couldn't make it stick. He ran as a moderate/centrist, and there was nothing in his record that bit him in the ass in that regard. Plus Bush 41 was a tax and spender himself. The other stuff, with the rest of the Dem candidates, stuck because, well, it had the aroma of truth regardless of whether it was factually true.