Comments on: McCain’s Supporters’ Low Road

By: CStanley

CStanley — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:30:39 +0000

Uh, obviously the rank and file who didn't protest simply didn't agree with you that it was a canard, Paul. Stating your opinion as fact doesn't make it so.

By: PaulSilver

PaulSilver — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:08:29 +0000

CStanley,
I can justify my statement because those are my observations over 40 years as an engaged voter. While both parties take the low road, it seems to me that the GOP does it more often.
That the GOP acts as if the ends justify the means is best and most recently demonstrated by the canard to get into Iraq and create the boon for the Military Industrial complex with very little resistance or protest from the GOP rank and file.
Have the Democrats done something of that magnitude?

By: CStanley

CStanley — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:33:50 +0000

Can't cut and paste for some reason, but that last sentence was a doozy (I'm seeing a lot of those in your closing statements lately, Paul.) How can you justify making claims like that (that the GOP puts the ends above the means more than the Dems do?) Even Kim points out Clinton's tendency toward that (a perfect example goes back to her first days in the WH when we now know she was exchanging memos about how to use character assassination against anyone who opposed her healthcare agenda.)

By: kritt11

kritt11 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:26:23 +0000

Clinton's campaign did suffer from using similar tactics. I guess it depends on whether the public buys McCain 'plausible deniability” or not. They didn't buy Clinton's, altho I think her husbands attacks on Obama did as much damage as the surrogates inferences. Its both mean AND cowardly, and brings to mind the GOP's tactics during the midterms, when no one could trace who was accountable for their lowdown campaign ads linking Democrats with terrorism.

By: GeorgeSorwell

GeorgeSorwell — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:19:53 +0000

I agree.

And the time to start fighting back is now.