Smear, smear smear
The GOP has found and launched its strategy to try to keep control of the House and Senate this fall: smear, smear, smear. In an effort to keep this election from being nationalized on unpopular issues like the war in Iraq and the poor performance of the GOP controlled congress, they are going for smear, distortion, and attack on Democratic challengers, hoping to make them look like risky choices compared with the local incumbent.
September 22nd, 2006 at 10:25 am
So where is the Democratic counterpart to all this?
I guess I wouldn’t care to have the smear and distortion used against the repubs, just the simple truth would demonize them. But from where I sit, we’re not even attempting any rebuttals. Are the Dems just happy to think “the blogs” are enough?
September 22nd, 2006 at 3:38 pm
Sadly, there’s no real Democratic counterpart to this. The closest thing is the Democracy Corps project that James Carville’s been doing for the last little while. Carville is an advocate of hitting back and hitting them in the mouth when you do it. Without Carville, I don’t think Clinton’s presidency could have survived the impeachment. I think he might have been forced to resign. Carville was the architect of the whole “we’re focused every day on doing the business of the american people” strategy that helped to lift Clinton’s poll numbers and make the GOP congress look like a bunch of nuts. Unfortunately, few Democratic candidates seem to have the backbone to follow Carville’s advice.