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As the GOP convention gets under way a day late today, Team Obama must be truly worried about things, if Chris Matthews unhinged behavior over the last 36 hours is any indication. But the egregious Matthews is just one small symptom of a larger asymmetry between the two parties.
The Team Obama theory was that they could destroy Romney over the summer with vicious attacks calling him a tax cheat, a murderer, and even a carcinogenic agent. (Get ready for a nasty whisper campaign against Romneys religion before this is over.) The Left thinks they are merely borrowing the Republican tactic of Swift-boating, or, even better, the Willie Horton card (aka, the maxed-out race card). The Left considered both the Swift boat attack that helped do in John Kerry in 2004, and the Willie Horton ad in 1988 that helped do in Michael Dukakis, to be below-the-belt, out-of-bounds, unfair, etc. Matthews brought up both Ronald Reagan and the welfare queen story again with Newt Gingrich, who throws it back in his face quite effectively. And liberals conveniently forget that the person who first brought up Willie Horton against Dukakis in 1998 was Al Gore in the New York primary.) Hence, theres no reason why Democrats shouldnt use made-up, below-the-belt attacks on Romney now. And yet after all this Romney is dead even with Obama. Not the place Team Obama expected to be.
The Left never understoodstill doesntwhy both the Swift boat attack on Kerry and the Willie Horton furlough had such traction with Americans, and why they were no mere mud slinging. The Horton ad is especially instructive. It has had a long shelf-life. In 1990, Sam Donaldson interviewed Horton on ABCs Prime Time Live, and concluded his interview with the question: If [Bush campaign manager] Lee Atwater should walk through that door tomorrow and say, Mr. Horton, I think I did you wrong, would you forgive him? This kind of thinking, George Will noted at the time, encourages in the Democrats the soothing belief that their partys problems are in the nuts and bolts of the machinery and not in the partys mind. Pathetic. Likewise, the Swift boat attack exposed the hypocrisy of an anti-war hero trying to make himself into a war hero. Most people wont fall for that. The point is: both the Swift boat attack on Kerry, and the Willie Horton ad, exposed weak spots in liberalism that liberals refuse to confront, while the simple mid-slinging against Romney, unconnected to larger issues, is having limited effect. (Back in 1988, the only establishment figure person who dissented from the liberal line was the Washington Posts Meg Greenfield, who wrote of the Horton issue that Many Democrats seem unwilling or unable to think about violent crime as a matter of public policy.)
(Get ready for a nasty whisper campaign against Romney’s religion before this is over.)
John Kerry is a war hero you fucking liar
John Kerry is a war hero you fucking liar
John Kerry won a silver medal.
You and your party trashed a decorated war hero for poltical gain.
Your fucking scum
taking a man who won a medals and trashing his war service with fucking lies is not honorable.
Your party is trash for doing it.
Your trash for still hoilding the lies up
taking a man who won a medals and trashing his war service with fucking lies is not honorable.
Your party is trash for doing it.
Your trash for still hoilding the lies up
You sound much like the floatsum on the top of a septic tank.
John Kerry served in veitman honorablely.
He deserved his medals and you scum lickers LIED about his service.
your fucking sick
taking a man who won a medals and trashing his war service with fucking lies is not honorable.
Your party is trash for doing it.
Your trash for still hoilding the lies up
You sound much like the floatsum on the top of a septic tank.
Your too stupid for any discussion of anything willow so fuck off
did you not know what happened in veitnam you asshole?
You going to pretend it wasnt a cluster fuck that should have been ended years before it was ?
