Letters to the Editor
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Smoking Guns
I'm surprised that campaigns don't use their opponents' words against them more often. Jon Stewart makes a living showing video clips of politicians saying one thing one day and then denying it the next. They once had a clever bit where they had Bush debating Bush using video segments where he directly contradicts himself. The RNC had the public parroting their view that John Kerry was a flip-flopper. The DNC could have responded by showing the Bush vs. Bush debate as a campaign spot and then asking, "Who's the flip-flopper?" And then there are all the brilliant quotes that could be used like: "Iraq will be a cakewalk", "I doubt we'll be in Iraq six months", "Iraqi oil will pay for reconstruction", etc. The Republicans can be so easily shown to be intellectually dishonest and hypocritical. The video is there, why isn't it used more often?