I am certain it is the acme of foolishness, but wouldn’t it be nice to hear SOME expression of regret from the Beltway Boys? Even something like, “mistakes were made” “excessive zeal” “poor judgement”?
I’m not holding my breath.
They crossed a line, my FRiend. There is good reason to expect this will be SOP moving forward. Why wouldn’t it be?
Because he is now regarded as a contemptible puke. Even the establishment types know this was a line that shouldn't have been crossed. I doubt it serves as a precedent.
It would be nice to hear something, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. However, somewhere in the threads on this, there is either a comment citing an article that said this has raised a lot of concern in GOP headquarters, if only because they are afraid it will affect their fundraising across the board. Which it will.
I don’t think they’ll try it again. For one thing, this was an unusual election under unusual circumstances, so they couldn’t do precisely the same thing again. But they will do things like use vicious and distorted attack ads, etc., as we saw in the last campaign. Romney particularly distinguished himself by his viciousness and lies - against other GOP candidates. When it came to attacking the Dems, of course, he was silent. So while I don’t think the GOP/Dem alliance will do anything quite so brazen again, they will certainly use dirty tactics.
I think it would help in this case if the GOP leaders would formally repudiate the tactics, but it’s a good ol’ boys club, and good ol’ boys never criticize each other.