Once the Republican Convention is over,
watch Kerry, et al, begin the negative campaining again. They'll claim that
they took the high road, but that Republican negative ads "forced" them to
start going negative again.

Well at least we seem to agree the Repub Convention will be most likely
negative in tone and that fear, hate, and slander are the most effective tools
in the conservative arsenal, even after four mixed-reviews years in office.

I'd love to see you guys get dirty as heck while the D's continue on the high
road.
I'd love to see the electorate hand you your
butts in November as a result......but I don't realistically expect to. :-(

"Gould 0738" wrote in message
...
Once the Republican Convention is over,
watch Kerry, et al, begin the negati
vecampainingagain.They'llclaimthat
they took the high road, but that Republican negative ads "forced" them
to
start going negative again.

Well at least we seem to agree the Repub Convention will be most likely
negative in tone and that fear, hate, and slander are the most effective
tools
in the conservative arsenal, even after four mixed-reviews years in
office.

I'd love to see you guys get dirty as heck while the D's continue on the
high
road.
I'd love to see the electorate hand you your
butts in November as a result......but I don't realistically expect to.
:-(



Kerry has been attacking Bush since the convention was over on Thursday.

Did you catch Maureen Dowd's column today? She really laid into Kerry and
his antics during the convention. Her closing remarks are funny:

"Given that the Kerry convention featured a skipper brave and sure, a first
mate who makes others comfortable, a millionaire called "Lovey" by her
spouse, two pretty young Kerry castaways and a movie star (the ubiquitously
annoying Ben Affleck). I suppose we should be grateful that Camp Kerry
didn't introduce the nominee with the "Gilligan's Island" theme song."

"Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip...."

That convention and his overplay of his 3 months in 'Nam have already
started to come back to bite him.

"Gould 0738" wrote in message
...
Once the Republican Convention is over,
watch Kerry, et al, begin the negative campaining again. They'll claim
that
they took the high road, but that Republican negative ads "forced" them
to
start going negative again.

Well at least we seem to agree the Repub Convention will be most likely
negative in tone and that fear, hate, and slander are the most effective
tools
in the conservative arsenal, even after four mixed-reviews years in
office.

I'd love to see you guys get dirty as heck while the D's continue on the
high
road.
I'd love to see the electorate hand you your
butts in November as a result......but I don't realistically expect to.
:-(

Just what is negative campaigning?

Pointing of that your opponent is not, in your opinion, up to the job
because he lacks this or that is just drawing a distinction between you and
your opponent.

Just what is negative campaigning?

Pointing of that your opponent is not, in your opinion, up to the job
because he lacks this or that is just drawing a distinction between you and
your opponent.

Lying about your opponents record, or presenting facts so chery picked from
context and distorted that they constitute a lie, is negative campaigning.

"Gould 0738" wrote in message
...
Just what is negative campaigning?

Pointing of that your opponent is not, in your opinion, up to the job
because he lacks this or that is just drawing a distinction between you
and
your opponent.

Lying about your opponents record, or presenting facts so chery picked
from
context and distorted that they constitute a lie, is negative campaigning.

What, you are going to hold your opponent up as the paragon of virture? You
have got to be kidding!

Of course you are going to cherry pick the items to ding your opponent on to
make them look bad and hopefully make you look good.

Is a lie a lie or does it depend upon the definition of "lie."

On 03 Aug 2004 00:09:58 GMT, (Gould 0738) wrote:

Just what is negative campaigning?

Pointing of that your opponent is not, in your opinion, up to the job
because he lacks this or that is just drawing a distinction between you and
your opponent.

Lying about your opponents record, or presenting facts so chery picked from
context and distorted that they constitute a lie, is negative campaigning.

You mean the stuff the democrats and their minions(ALA Michael Moore)
have been lobbing at Bush for the last year?

Dave

On 02 Aug 2004 18:49:17 GMT, (Gould 0738) wrote:

Once the Republican Convention is over,
watch Kerry, et al, begin the negative campaining again. They'll claim that
they took the high road, but that Republican negative ads "forced" them to
start going negative again.

Well at least we seem to agree the Repub Convention will be most likely
negative in tone and that fear, hate, and slander are the most effective tools
in the conservative arsenal, even after four mixed-reviews years in office.

C'mon Chuck, can you be intellectually honest for a bit here? Hate?
Surely you jest. Just how has the republican party promoted hate?
Republicans are not the ones trying to pit rich against poor,
minorities against whites, seniors against working people etc. Fear?
A healthy fear of terrorism is a responsible thing to have at this
point. Slander? Please! Just when have the republicans slandered
anyone that wasn't a reaction to slander barbs being thrown at them
from their opposition? Listen to Dean's latest mind fart where he
accuses Bush of "possibly" promoting the increased terror alerts for
political gain. Or listen to any of Al Gore's recent speeches, Teddy
Kennedy's or Hillary's rants, and you'll see slander in its defining
moments. About the only one who hasn't engaged in slander lately is
Kerry himself for conspicuously obvious reasons. I'm sure his tongue
has some very deep teeth marks in it.



I'd love to see you guys get dirty as heck while the D's continue on the high
road.

The democrats have no high road. They have nothing to offer. The only
thing they can do is contrast themselves against the republicans. And
they can't do that effectively without denigrating them.

Dave

Dave Hall wrote in message . ..
On 02 Aug 2004 18:49:17 GMT, (Gould 0738) wrote:

Once the Republican Convention is over,
watch Kerry, et al, begin the negative campaining again. They'll claim that
they took the high road, but that Republican negative ads "forced" them to
start going negative again.

Well at least we seem to agree the Repub Convention will be most likely
negative in tone and that fear, hate, and slander are the most effective tools
in the conservative arsenal, even after four mixed-reviews years in office.

C'mon Chuck, can you be intellectually honest for a bit here? Hate?
Surely you jest. Just how has the republican party promoted hate?
Republicans are not the ones trying to pit rich against poor,
minorities against whites, seniors against working people etc. Fear?
A healthy fear of terrorism is a responsible thing to have at this
point. Slander? Please! Just when have the republicans slandered
anyone that wasn't a reaction to slander barbs being thrown at them
from their opposition? Listen to Dean's latest mind fart where he
accuses Bush of "possibly" promoting the increased terror alerts for
political gain. Or listen to any of Al Gore's recent speeches, Teddy
Kennedy's or Hillary's rants, and you'll see slander in its defining
moments. About the only one who hasn't engaged in slander lately is
Kerry himself for conspicuously obvious reasons. I'm sure his tongue
has some very deep teeth marks in it.



I'd love to see you guys get dirty as heck while the D's continue on the high
road.

The democrats have no high road. They have nothing to offer. The only
thing they can do is contrast themselves against the republicans. And
they can't do that effectively without denigrating them.

Dave

Then you've not been listening. Perhaps those blinders are too tight?