If you're afraid that your argument won't be popular, or hold water, or stand up to the light of day, then I guess the thing to do these days is to make sure you win through dirty tricks. Or if you believe the general populace won't want the same things you do (or your contributors do), then I guess the thing to do is trick or scare them somehow into thinking your way.
I can imagine campaign managers and political strategists would think this way. Their job, after all, is to win for their candidate or party. But isn't it the job of the candidate or party to decline ideas that are dishonest, deceitful, or downright dirty, to say "I don't play that way." to the devil sitting on their shoulder?
You'd think that the party that continually hypes morality and Christianity (I'm talking to Republicans here), would actually have morals and act in a Christ-like way. But here's what I've witnessed as deliberate campaigns or promotions by Republican politicians since President Obama took office:
The problem is that the misinformed don't know they're misinformed, so the politicians can use these tactics with aplomb--and they know it and keep doing it, no matter how many times others call them out. What I know, however, and what all better-informed people know is that these tactics are a sign of Republicans embracing deceit and immorality as common and acceptable political behavior. Shame on you.
I can imagine campaign managers and political strategists would think this way. Their job, after all, is to win for their candidate or party. But isn't it the job of the candidate or party to decline ideas that are dishonest, deceitful, or downright dirty, to say "I don't play that way." to the devil sitting on their shoulder?
You'd think that the party that continually hypes morality and Christianity (I'm talking to Republicans here), would actually have morals and act in a Christ-like way. But here's what I've witnessed as deliberate campaigns or promotions by Republican politicians since President Obama took office:
- Obama was born in Kenya
- The Affordable Care Act includes death panels
- Unions are the cause of state budget crises (rather than state mismanagement of pension funds)
- Climate change is a hoax unsupported by science
Oh I know Democrats are not above lying, just like I know Fox News is capable of telling the whole truth sometimes. But watch this clip of the Daily Show, Politifact's follow up, and a New York Times article from last December, and see where you think the lion-share of dishonesty and deliberate efforts to misinform lies:
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