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Funny how, the minute DNC for the first time calls out a Republican dirty trickster by name and dares GOP to keep the story going, thereby proving that there is more to the story, some noob comes along and says back off. But then I'm a noob so what do I know? It happened with the McCain ad, catastrophically in my opinion. What are these people, Rove transplants or Shrum transplants? If we're gonna be so paranoid and cautious about bringing down * why not simply take Occam's razor and assume that the most suspect person is Shrum and his shiny happy yuppie DLC allies with their wimpy-ass "we need to stop talking about this, it's too negative, turns off educated voters" bullshit.
In short, yesterday I would have suggested investigating the Burkett-Stone connection PRIVATELY but now that the DNC has come out against Stone and Repubs responded by WITHDRAWING their spokesmen from scheduled talk-shows for a messaging pow-wow, now is NOT the time for Dems to go all soft and (suspiciously) wimpy. I say that as an allied independent voter, mind you.
Hell, Nixon and his protege Stone learned these tactics by infiltrating the PREVIOUS anti-war movement... because they were just TOO easy! You got your overzealous die-hards who can be pushed into following stories before they are corroborated on the one hand, like CBS did (ironically there would have been no story if they hadn't fell for it); and you got your paranoid, close-lipped pollyannas on the other side whose only goal is to appease the swing voters by stirring as little controversy as possible and not engaging in even the cleanest forms of dirty campaigning i.e. the allegations against Stone. Easy to plant a bug in their ear by counseling them to inaction, just like "friendly white folks" did to the Cherokees and Sioux when the gov't was planning to deport them to reservations. When liberals get hauled off to liberal reservations, half of them will STILL be saying "now is not the time to alienate the center-left by trying to discredit * on the character issue!" What Would your opponent Rove Do?
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