[gusty]

If the “news” media attacks us,so what. At this point we have nothing to lose. The problem is that our candidates and office holders have a fatal flaw, they want to be liked. They act like high school kids at the school dance. For decades, negative ads have worked every time they are used. Those who use them take a little heat, but laugh all the way to their opponents concession speech. When our guys run one of the so-called positive campaigns, alla McCain, they are savaged by the media anyway. This whole it's not if you win but how you play the game BS is killing us electorally and I dare say on the battlefields of the WOT. The object of campaigns and war is to win in anyway you can. Being feared is for winners, being liked is for losers.

[jeffc]

If the “news” media attacks us,so what. At this point we have nothing to lose.

True. Which is why I said we need to go after the media - hard, like Newt did in the primaries. Romney didn't. Like Repubs before him, he tried to get the media to like him. We need to start now and keep pounding the media every day from now until the next election.