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Thursday, January 24, 2008
Nothing to offer but fear and smears
By VictorM:Senator John Kerry experienced the right wing smear machine when he was running for president in 2004. If he had responded to them properly, who knows, he might have won that election.
His recollection and assessment are right on:
Right wingers don't really discuss the issues; they merely playing up the fear. They don't discuss the candidates, they merely smear them. And Senator Kerry is right, right wingers are going to be out in full force doing the only things they know how to do.In the New York Times the Republican narrative was first introduced:
"Another Bush adviser said of Mr. Kerry, 'He looks French.'"
In the same article, anonymous Republicans described John Edwards as the "Breck Girl"
Bottom line, we can’t wait until we have a Democratic ticket to combat the right wing’s efforts to “frame” our candidates...
The right-wing has nothing to offer but fear and smears, and they are gearing up to deliver plenty of it. Already we hear of a conservative group with ties to the Bush White House – Freedom’s Watch – that plans to spend a quarter of a billion dollars on this election. I think we all know enough about how the right-wing operates to know that this money won’t go to helping voters make informed choices. That money will go to smearing candidates across America, up and down the ballot.
So, who's the best Democratic candidate to deal with right wingers? Because how he/she does it, may determine who gets the White House.
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Hillary is by far the best candidate to deal with the underhanded tricks of the right wingers, since she has already experienced 8 years of it targeted at her husband and herself. Ken Starr and the Whitewater smear campaign gave her a top level course in Republican tactics at their worst. She knows what they're capable of. Remember, it was she who first brought attention to the "Vast, Right-Wing Conspiracy", which people laughed at, but now we know better.
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