It has recently been said by many pundits that the reason attack ads are used is because they work. Thus continue the rationalizations. The assumption is that they work, as though the candidates themselves have no part in their own success.. One must ask how? Do they work because they attack, or do they work because the attacker has done homework and is exposing another candidate. The use of attack is to obfuscate that the attacker hasn't a clue how to run the country or straighten out the mess GW left us in.
A BBC News headline is: Republicans attack rival Ron Paul in Iowa. Under a heading of 'serial hypocrites' The article goes on to say: "Former Massachusetts Governor Romney said on Wednesday in Muscatine, Iowa: "One of the people running for president thinks it's okay for Iran to have a nuclear weapon. I don't." Another statement: "You don't have to vote for a candidate who will allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth," Mr Perry said. "Because America will be next."
Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, joined the onslaught.l
"Ron Paul would be a dangerous president," she said. "He would have us ignore all of the warning signs of another brutal dictator who wants to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth. I won't."
The Los Angeles Times accused the candidates for threatening Democracy by bashing judges. The article by Erwin Chemerinsky
Some of the candidates are really frightening with clear promises to circumvent the Constitution and decisions by the judicial appointees.
A BBC News headline is: Republicans attack rival Ron Paul in Iowa. Under a heading of 'serial hypocrites' The article goes on to say: "Former Massachusetts Governor Romney said on Wednesday in Muscatine, Iowa: "One of the people running for president thinks it's okay for Iran to have a nuclear weapon. I don't." Another statement: "You don't have to vote for a candidate who will allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth," Mr Perry said. "Because America will be next."
Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, joined the onslaught.l
"Ron Paul would be a dangerous president," she said. "He would have us ignore all of the warning signs of another brutal dictator who wants to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth. I won't."
The Los Angeles Times accused the candidates for threatening Democracy by bashing judges. The article by Erwin Chemerinsky
Some of the candidates are really frightening with clear promises to circumvent the Constitution and decisions by the judicial appointees.
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If the general population believes most of the political ads,they're being very stupid, and it isn't just one party that is paying for these ads, we voters should see what the politicians have done,not what they say that they will do
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