Quandary: High or low roads in politics (a Progressive rant ahead)

[suzanne78]

I'm stuck here, because I'm watching replays of Countdown and The Rachel Maddow Show, and they raise interesting viewpoints re. the need for dirty campaign trickery and sticking with the high road and talk about the issues.

Now, before I go further, I just want to state that this is not what I see from all Republicans. No no . . . do not get me

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[a_respite]

Problem with your Democrats, Suzanne, is that they know how to play dirty, but when they try to play dirty against Republicans, they wind up looking like amateurs. 'Cause it's not just about the soundbite. Think about it: If a soundbite dropped on a Friday afternoon, and no talking/screaming head was around to push it, would it be news? Democrats need their own language-creating machine (you know, the people who tell us that Mother Earth is a "Special Interest"). They've been woefully behind the language-defining curve since Ronald @#$%ing Reagan.

Problem is, they have the superior candidate. Which is no different than what they had in '00 or in '04. And if they don't start defining John McCain, defining Sarah Palin, defining Iraq, defining "The American People (tm)" and lots of other terms, the outcome of this election is going to go the way the last two did, a "how the hell did the Democrats manage to lose *this* one?"

[suzanne78]

See, the Democratic pushback did start right after that first week in June; most of Obama's surrogates started in with chanting "McSame" and "four more years" . . . but then