Quote from ktmexc20:
Hi pabst,
In my last post I kind of described what I feel about the poisonous political diversity in our society today. In my opinion, that was started by the Karl Rove/Ken Melman crowd.
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-kt
You're probably too young to remember some of the real poison that has been dished out. Lyndon Johnson ran ads of a liitle girl picking daisies which then morphed into a nuclear explosion mushroom cloud. Message: his opponent, Barry Goldwater, would start a nuclear war.
Ronald Reagan was derided as being a dumb actor who would, yep, start a nuclear war.
Robert Bork, one of America's leading constitutional lawyers, was slandered shamelessly by Ted Kennedy and other leftwing hitmen in one of their first attempts to personally destroy Republican judicial nominees.
George Bush was derided as a dumb drunk who would, guess what, get us into a nuclear war. Spot a pattern?
As one commentator famously observed, "Politics ain't beanbag." Sadly, below the belt punches are as old as our democracy and the Democrats have been particularly adept in recent years in delivering them. Rove and Mehlman are hardly the innovators you imagine them to be.