Reply #17: This issue is a "third rail" for a progressive candidate. Touch it & DIE! [View All]

[Silverhair]

ANY candidate that tries to use this issue WILL LOSE THE ELECTION unless his/her district is so blue that it's indigo. That is a fact of political life.

Does anybody here remember the Willie Horton ads? THEY WORKED!! They were brutally effective. Dukakis was effectively painted as soft on crime because he did not quickly end the furloughs for lifers that was STARTED by his Republican predecessor. He did end them once he had been struck with Presidential ambitions, but it was too late.

The Republicans would LOVE for our candidates to include this in their campaign.