More Fake Outrage, More Wimpy Democrats
A few days ago, the Democratic Party posted an ad on their website. For once, it was a powerful, effective ad, full of emotional imagery that succinctly presented an unmistakable message: The past six years have been awful, and it's time for a change. Naturally, the Republicans in Congress and Republican bloggers were outraged! Outraged that the ad was effective, but the official line was they were outraged that the ad showed images of flag-draped coffins coming home.
The Democrats who created that ad stood up and faced the latest bout of fake rage. Naturally, they then tucked their tail between their legs and ran as fast as they could in the other direction, but not before they removed the ad from their website.
Instead of giving in (yet again), why didn't the Democratic Party respond by saying the real outrage is that these young men and women are dying in the first place in a war that didn't have to happen, and that it's their duty as patriotic Americans to point that out?
Why didn't they point out that, to some people, it's only ok to feature soldiers in campaign ads when they're alive or when their widows are staring at George W. Bush in adulation?:
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I'm really tired of people just rolling over and taking it whenever Republicans start with their lies and shenanigans. We HAVE to start calling them on it EVERY SINGLE TIME.
As a parent, you cannot let your child get away with egregious misbehavior even once. That's the only way they learn to do the right thing. Sometimes we have to train up adults to do the right thing too.
Paul said:
"One more point - this "lying" thing is way overdone."
"...constant character attacks against a person who may have believed what he was saying has a way of backfiring and losing support."
He knew the intelligence was cooked up. He knew there were no WMDs. Any statements from the administration denying these facts are disingenuous at best. I don't buy the spin.
Paul, are you a Democrat or Republican?
The reason I ask is, I see a lot of "advice" from people who say the Democrats need to stop pointing out lies and corruption, but that advice usually comes from Republicans who wouldn't vote for Democrats anyway, and it's more than a little self-serving.
If that's the case, thanks for your advice, but no thanks. When Republicans stop lying about their opponents (Swift Boat, anyone?), lying about what they knew (Richard Clark, Downing Street Memos, etc. etc. etc. is not "opinion"), and lying about the state of the union (no, a deficit that's half of the absurdly high amount the Bush administration projected - which they do every year - does not equal a reduction of the national deficit), Democrats can stop pointing out that they're liars.
Besides, have you read Robert F. Kennedy's Rolling Stone article or the Conyers commission report detailing how the 2004 election was fraudulent (please don't tell me hundreds of thousands of mostly minority and Democratic voters being disenfranchised isn't fraudulent)? Not to mention how Katherine Harris had 54,000 Blacks stripped of the right to vote in 2000. We don't need advice on how to win elections, we just need to be allowed to vote in them.
...I forgot to add, "and we just need our votes to be counted accurately."
Ohhhh, a libertarian. That explains things. ;)
In all seriousness, the lying isn't just a side issue. It is the main issue, especially when it comes to winning elections. When the lies are repeated often enough and loud enough, people believe them. The only way to counter that is to call bs when they see it. Lying, corruption, and poor ethics should never be tolerated from either party.
I won't go into further detail here, but I suggest looking up anything on the concept of "the big lie".
To "Anonymous", I think it was...
It's not just the GOP that lies, exagerates, stretches the truth, or whatever you want to call it.
Let's not forget the "October Surprise" of 2000 (Bush having been a bit of a "boozer", apparently). Kerry's statement of being in ... What was it now, Nam? Laos? Cambodia? I don't remember right off...
He claimed to have been one place, and he was called into question by his old CO...or was it some other of his Military comrades?
Whatever. When the lying stops, and the issues get HEARD, we'll all be better off.
And on another note: "Hundreds of thousands" of disenfranchised? Methinks you may be exaggerating yourself....
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