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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (74214)	3/5/2006 12:28:01 AM
From: TopCat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

"You're the one that doesn't know Kerry. Admit it! You bumped into him at a campaign stop...maybe shook his hand? If your relationship with Kerry is any deeper than that, then Kerry is in bigger trouble than I originally thought." Bravo...well said.

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (74214)	3/5/2006 10:46:00 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

Rove is an expert at smears. We all agree on that. No candidate he's run against has ever figured out a way to respond to his smears. Because as the originators of smear campaigns (in Texas) realized, the smear wins no matter what, so long as you cover up the fact that you yourself are putting out the smear. It has to be done by a surrogate, not yourself. Once done, it nforces your opponent to either ignore the smear (which leaves it hanbging out there) or deny it (and denials makes an opponent seem guilty and knock him off message). I'm sure if Kerry had it to do over again he would act more aggresively to pin the smears on Bush, but that might not have worked either. The fact is these smear campaigns should be outed as criminal, whether they are technically illegal or not. And why is false advertising of products illegal but not false advertising of politicians? Bush's ads claiming Kerry was "weak on defense" were dishonest as hell. And they were designed to go along with the smear campaign, which totally misrepresented itself. The smearvets ads were blatant false advertising and libel.