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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Paul Smith who wrote (148558)11/1/2010 10:09:48 AM
From: Sam  Read Replies (3) of 543488
 
The left currently seems to believe insults are the way to regain their lost power.

That is a pretty amusing statement since it was people like Newt Gingrich, Lee Atwater and Roger Ailes who made "insulting" the other party an art form, turned many political campaigns into campaigns where the person who could create the most "clever" insult would win the day, and have devised long term verbal campaigns to smear their opposition--from saying "liberal" with a sneer to trying to revise the word "Democratic Party" into "Democrat Party."

Cute, Paul. Just as cute as Christy pretending that he is a blunt guy who just tells it as it is while balancing his budget with tricks that pass the problem down the road to a time when he won't be in office. Just like Reagan pretending that he didn't raise taxes in 1985 to make up for his budget busting tax cuts in his first term. Just like Bush who pretended that he was just "returning the people's money to them" in his first tax cut instead of addressing the problems of unfunded liabilities, then when his tax cuts do exactly what Democrats said they would do--lead to unsustainable deficits--he pretended in 1985 to the American people that "the cupboard is bare, there is no money to pay for Social Security or Medicare." And while we're at it, let's all pretend that Bush's people didn't make the 2009 budget or the gargantuan deficits, no, that's all Obama's people, since he came into office in Jan 2009, everything that happened after that date is on his shoulders. So many things we can pretend, such great fun!

It is what Republicans are really good at doing: pretending.
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