Bumped to Saturday
Far be it for a much smaller blogger like me to disagree with Michelle Malkin, but, in regards to her post on Politics and Pulp Fiction, I must disagree.
The post is about George Allen's campaign releasing information about a sexual charged book written by Allen's opponent, James Webb. You can see alot more information on this subject over at Right Wing News. Michelle writes
I don't think, however, that the Allen campaign–couldn't they leave this to surrogates?–should be trafficking in this late October muck. It is beneath them and there's plenty else about Webb that is damning.
Political strategists in the Beltway are exulting that "Webb is toast" as a result of this Drudge/Allen bomb. But if this what Republican Senate candidates need to do to win elections, I don't think any of us should be cheering.
Look, I am not trying to start a blog fight, or even a minor kerfluffle, but, I think we should be cheering. No matter what we want to believe, politics is a nasty business. Always has, and always will be. The current round of disgusting behavior was started by the Democrats with the election of George W. Bush, and has only gotten worse since. I won't go in to specifics, we all know them. But, consider. When Clinton was president, were you able to go and buy calendars that denigrated Clinton en mass in mainstream outlets? Did Republicans call Clinton a traitor, and personally blame him for the first World Trade Center or any of the other terrorist bombings, much less say he was part of a conspiracy to kill Americans?
Didn't think so.
We in the Right-O-Sphere have complained about Republicans not fighting back against the insanity of the Democrats. We shouldn't be surprised when they do, and it gets ugly. Elections tend to be more about perception and sound bites, not ideas and agendas. If they were, the Democrats, with their abortion on demand raise taxes surrender now nanny state ideas and plans would have been toast long ago.
Allen's opponents, Webb, the Nutroots, and the Democratic Party, have never crawled out of the pig sty.
Sometimes you have to get down in the mud to capture that pig.
More: After a day spent off and on viewing blogs and forums, both left and right, as well as catching The O'Reilly Factor with a guest host, I am simply amazed by the number of people who are "surprised, simply surprised!" at how nasty politcs has gotten during this campaign season, especially the past week. They cannot believe the mudslinging in ads and video's.
I just have to laugh out loud, wondering where they have been the past five years, as well as what has happened for at least a hundred years here in the USA.
I repeat. Politics is a dirty business, and it usually gets really dirty come election time.
And some more for Saturday: Hot Air has a post up with Michelle slamming Smutgate and predicting the Dems will win the House. Well, I still think there is a good change that the Defeatocrats will take the House by a bare majority, but, again, I have no problem sith Smutgate. It's politics.
She also "says the RNC playmate ad about Harold Ford backfired by making him look like “a pretty cool guy.”" Maybe, provided that people focus soley on what amounts to about 5-8 seconds of the whole ad, if I remember correctly from when I cut that part out of the video out.
I'm with Ace:
When Democrats stubbornly refuse to announce their actual positions, how can you actually engage them on "the issues," I wonder?
Rank The Following In Order of Preference:
- Winning Smart
- Winning Stupid
- Losing Smart
- Losing Stupid
That's my order, right there. Seems some people have a different opinion as regards the second and third most preferred choices.
We're not talking about a Democratic Congress that a GOP President can work with, at least to some degree, like when Reagan was Pres. Today's Dems have added insane, wonkadoodle, and unhinged to their appeasement and surrender pedigree's.
