The gloves are off! Fight back!

[cal04]

Not sure if all in this article are true, but he's got a lot to say



If Lyndon Johnson were alive today, he would tell us Democrats how to beat the crap out of the Republicans. There is a story about Johnson from his halcyon political days in Texas that is pertinent today. The rough and tumble politician was running for re-election to the Senate in 1952 and while on one of his trademark barnstorming campaign swings through the state he met an old Democratic political colleague—a small town sheriff who was also running for re-election. The sheriff told Johnson that he was facing an unexpectedly strong challenger in his re-election bid. Not thinking twice, Johnson told the sheriff to put out the word that his opponent "------ pigs." The sheriff responded coolly to the idea, saying that it just wasn't true. Johnson replied, "So what! Make the son of a bitch deny it!" The Democrats of today should take a lesson from LBJ. This election cannot be played by Marquess of Queensberry rules. The Bush thugs have to be hoisted on their own petards

The Republican hate fest in New York has to be challenged between now and Election Day. The so-called "bounce" for Bush has to be bounced right up his keister.

It's time to dig up the dirt and throw it back in the faces of these Republican hypocrites. Print this article off and copy it on your corporate copiers after work or during lunch and give it to your religious friends on the right. Leave copies lying around on tables in Starbuck's. Stick it in the hymnals in churches. Post it in laundry rooms and student unions. We have less than two months to drive these maniacs away from Washington. I, for one, will vote absentee in Virginia and volunteer as a poll watcher in Jim Crow Florida. Let's fight back

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/091504Madsen/091504madsen.html

[lgardengate]

1. what good will showing this to the GOP do?

also i think it would make Kerry/us look bad.

[saracat]

2. To Whom?

We have nothing to lose!

[Debs]

3. The downside to this is

The Hunter S Thompson credo that if you call someone a pigf****r you damn well better be able to produce the pig...I wonder how the Bushies pull it off, they never have the pigs. This is a built in advantage of the right, if someone lies to me I quit believing them but no matter how often the newest Godlike rightwing Politician lies to his base the next thing out of their mouth is still gospel to the right. I dont know what can be done about that

[Disturbed]

4. Rove Tactics are dirty but work.

People complain about negative campaigning but then conradict themselves and say..."Well.. they work.

Kerry needs to go on full metal jacket attack. Pick a few topics and hammer those ad nauseum.

Main topic: Bush is a coward and a miserable failure domesticly and in the wars that he and the Neo Fascists started. Bush and his buglers did not protect America from 911 Attacks and on that day did nothing to save lives. Osama who? Bush and his bunglers have made America less safe.

Two more issues: Economy-Sucks. Outsourcing/ Relocation of mfg.

Healthcare.

Brand those in people's minds. Keep it simple.

[ixion]

5. the only reason it works is the complicit media enable it to

if the 'news' media were actually broadcasting the news, and asking serious questions, instead of playing grab a**, none of these dirty tricks would work.

as well, it's for this very same reason that it would not work for progressives, because the media would not enable it.

However, if the news were actually based on facts, dirty tricks wouldn't be necessary because the rethugs would incriminate themselves.