Comments on: Quote Of The Day: On The Clintons And Negative Campaigning http://themoderatevoice.com/19071/quote-of-the-day-on-the-clintons-and-negative-campaigning/ An Internet hub for moderates, centrists, and independents, with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, and right Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:56:13 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: politics » Blog Archive » Quote Of The Day: On The Clintons And Negative Campaigning http://themoderatevoice.com/19071/quote-of-the-day-on-the-clintons-and-negative-campaigning/comment-page-1/#comment-111859 politics » Blog Archive » Quote Of The Day: On The Clintons And Negative Campaigning Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:30:15 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/primaries/19071/quote-of-the-day-on-the-clintons-and-negative-campaigning/#comment-111859 [...] DAMOZEL wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt… as Karl Rove — George W. Bush’s master of the dark arts — destroyed Al Gore and John Kerry in 2000 and 2004, with tactics just as brutal but even more personal, then they will have driven American politics to a critical point. … [...] [...] DAMOZEL wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt… as Karl Rove — George W. Bush’s master of the dark arts — destroyed Al Gore and John Kerry in 2000 and 2004, with tactics just as brutal but even more personal, then they will have driven American politics to a critical point. … [...]

]]> By: runasim http://themoderatevoice.com/19071/quote-of-the-day-on-the-clintons-and-negative-campaigning/comment-page-1/#comment-149080 runasim Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:43:04 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/primaries/19071/quote-of-the-day-on-the-clintons-and-negative-campaigning/#comment-149080 It's kind of hard to talk about Democrats as a group, because they've always been a very wide umbrella assembly. <br><br>There has always been a hard core Party loyalty group, even a multi-generational loyalty one. They might be attracted to turning the Rovian tables on opponents, if they see one candidate as the most likely to win the general election.<br><br>Then there are the acitivist left wingers, who also take no prisoners.and never consider consequences.<br><br>By and large, though, people drift to voting Democratic because that's the antidote to Republican authoritarianism. Their values and interests are more likely to get the attention of a Democrat led government. They are not loyal to a Party; they are loyal to certain issues. This is the group, I believe, who are repelled most by personal attakcs and are most likely to reject rough and nasty political tactics. <br><br>BTW, among Democrats there are also penty of the corrrupt and venal. <br><br>So, when someone talks about Democrats, I wonder: "Which Democrats?" It's kind of hard to talk about Democrats as a group, because they've always been a very wide umbrella assembly.

There has always been a hard core Party loyalty group, even a multi-generational loyalty one. They might be attracted to turning the Rovian tables on opponents, if they see one candidate as the most likely to win the general election.

Then there are the acitivist left wingers, who also take no prisoners.and never consider consequences.

By and large, though, people drift to voting Democratic because that's the antidote to Republican authoritarianism. Their values and interests are more likely to get the attention of a Democrat led government. They are not loyal to a Party; they are loyal to certain issues. This is the group, I believe, who are repelled most by personal attakcs and are most likely to reject rough and nasty political tactics.

BTW, among Democrats there are also penty of the corrrupt and venal.

So, when someone talks about Democrats, I wonder: “Which Democrats?”

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