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The Fearsome Republican Attack Machine: Still Broken
By Ned | April 29, 2008
The Republican Party provides a pretty good object lesson in how to not respond to an attack ad. To paraphrase:
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
They used to be good at the whole negative campaigning thing, like, four years ago. But apparently things get really confusing when it’s the Democrats who are on the attack. Or maybe McCain’s just such a swell guy that they’re completely taken aback that anyone would ever say anything bad about him. I don’t know. Either way, threatening legal action because somebody quoted your candidate saying something retarded in an ad can’t really be interpreted as good politics.
Deal with it, guys! The sheer chutzpah it takes to aggressively smear political opponents with bogus stories like, “he isn’t actually a war hero” or “he’s a cover terrorist” and then turn around and cry lawsuit over legitimate criticisms of your candidates is astonishing. Grow some fucking vertebrate.
Topics: Elections, The Media |