Naw, it's just their standard issue character assassination tactic: Guilt by association.
So I guess you liberals will call on the Debate Commission to find and employ someone personally close to Mitt Romney and ask that this person be the next Presidential debate Moderator? I'll wait.. Plz post your copy of the email here. Thanks!
I don't give a shit WHO they pick as moderator. Neither do I hold people accountable for who they know. I'll just bet there's SOMEONE in YOUR past you wouldn't like me finding out about and making assumptions about YOU from, isn't there?
We all know, or have known, people who aren't perfect and none of us want ourselves judged by who we knew. Just because we know someone does not mean we're just like them or even agree with them. After all, I know some fundamentally, hard-right wing nut jobs and count them as my personal friends. Does that make ME a RWNJ? Hardly. I've also knew a couple of left-wing bomb throwers back in the 60's. Does that make me a leftist revolutionary? No. I also knew some members of the Hells Angels back then too. Does that make me a criminal motorcycle gang member? No, that would be a foolish assumption to make. I once knew a guy who later robbed a bank. Am I bank robber too because I once knew him?
Yet, that very thing is a huge part of the right's campaign of fear-mongering about Barack Obama. OMG! He knew Bill Ayers! OMG! His wife worked with Bernadette Dorhn! OMG! He knows George Soros! OMG! His second best buddy's wife's sister is the 15th cousin removed to a guy who is the illegitimate offspring of Joseph's Stalin's mistresses uncle! OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST!
It's just stupid beyond words and only resonates among the true morons who are afraid of Obama in every shadow. And, of course, it works because the real RWNJ's DO believe exactly as their friends believe because they only have RWNJ friends, self-limiting their exposure to different ideas to prevent their prejudices being challenged. Consequently, they seem to believe we ALL do that and they can't imagine why Obama isn't exactly like anyone he ever knew, nor can they understand why those of us who DO have a wide and varied circle of friends can't see the "danger."