THE GOP STRATEGY: ATTACK, DISTORT, LIE, REPEAT

[mourningdove92]

DUMMERSTON, Vt. -- Here's the new definition of chutzpah.

One presidential candidate joins the Navy and volunteers to serve in Vietnam. He serves two tours. On his second tour, he volunteers for the most hazardous assignment in the Navy, commanding a swift boat in the Mekong Delta. In the space of a few months of duty, he earns a Silver Star, a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts before he is sent home and goes on to become an eloquent opponent of the war.

The other presidential candidate has his father help get him into an Air National Guard unit that has no chance of being called to active duty in Vietnam. Even though he scores only one point above the minimum qualifying score on the flight school exam, he is accepted ahead of other qualified candidates. He honorably serves the first four years of his six-year enlistment, but his record of service becomes quite sketchy in the final two years. He is eventually granted an early discharge to go to Harvard Business School.

Logic would tell you that the candidate that didn't volunteer to serve in Vietnam and who has major, unexplained gaps in his National Guard service record wouldn't dare to attack the patriotism of the decorated war veteran. But logic hasn't been a part of American politics for decades, particularly in the Republican Party.

The spectacle of watching a political party filled with people who avoided military service during the Vietnam era attack the military record of a man who served heroically in the war now stands as the textbook example of chutzpah.

http://www.american-reporter.com/2,465/7.html

[Shoeempress]

1. And yet every time we dems seem to act like its a surprise.

Exactly when do you think we'll figure it out AHEAD of time and act accordingly?

[KT2000]

2. Don't forget RIDICULE

the distortions, lies andn repitition are used in a ridiculing manner.

What people who vote for Bush do not realize is than many of them are also the subject of RW ridicule - the poor, unemployed, those without health insurance, minorities - ethnic and sexual.

Too bad it is such an easy sell.

[glitch]

3. the power of propaganda or why it's better to own the media 101

Lots of folks are buying it, but <50% is not as effective result as I am sure they hoped for all their effort and money. They're gonna have to bring out the hard sell, I do believe.
And chutzpah is way too benign a word for what they have, IMO.