Letters to the Editor
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Please to 'splain the Democrats to me, Lucy
Can anyone please tell me why the Democrats around the country seem so completely clueless as to the knife fight nature of political campaigning these days and how to wage such a battle? I mean, are they all this dumb? Where's the creative thinking? The ruthlessness? The attacks on the Achilles heels of the corrupt, incompetent, bigoted, corporate loving, Bush-blowing Republicans? I don't get it.
I mean, how hard is it to pre-empt the "smear and fear" tactics of Karl Rove by running ads and making speeches in August and September that say, "My opponent is so desperate to take me down that you're certain to see a lot of ugly, slanderous attacks on me in the media, in advertising and on the Internet in the coming weeks. When you do, keep two things in mind: my opponent is using such attacks because he has nothing else, and such attacks are an insult to the intelligence of you, the voter."
How hard would it be to do that? You'd completely take away the negative slam ads from the GOP candidates and turn them into negatives for the people who run them. Why don't Democrats do this? Can their logic be so completely different from our Earth logic?
I don't get it.