To: Tumbleweed_Connection
"In 2000, it was then-Gore aide Lehane who took an innocuous Republican campaign ad that flashed the word "De-moc-rats" across the screen and turned it into a major scandal."
Lehane's tactic was so successful that we still call them "RATS" today.
3 posted on
01/16/2004 10:22:55 PM PST by
Buck W.
To: Buck W.
Lehane's tactic was so successful that we still call them "RATS" today. Some labels are just so apt.
To: Buck W.
And .. as a result of that ad, the DEMOCRAT party has tried (with some success) to change its name to the DemocratIC party to keep the repubs from using the "rat" or "rats" against them.
For this reason, I always call them DEMOCRAT not democratic.
5 posted on
01/16/2004 10:32:16 PM PST by
CyberAnt
("America is the GREATEST NATION on the face of the earth")
To: Buck W.
Lehane's tactic was so successful that we still call them "RATS" today.It sure is amazing how Lehane is considered some sort of political master even though his candidates always prove to be complete losers (Gore, Clark, etc) and his biggest "achievement" has been to create a new, permanent insult for the Democratic Party.
27 posted on
01/17/2004 4:29:05 AM PST by
Timesink
(I'm not a big fan of electronic stuff, you know? Beeps ... beeps freak me out. They're bad.)
To: Buck W.
"De-moc-rats"
It wasn't even Democrats. It was Bureaucrats. The line was "Who decides? Bureaucrats decide". The way the MTV-style editing worked out, the word RATS appeared on its own for a fraction. That's the neatest part -- they weren't even talking about democrats right then and with Lehane's whining they still managed to adopt the new nickname. When will they change their aymbol?
44 posted on
01/17/2004 8:59:30 AM PST by
johnb838
(Write-In Tancredo in your Republican Primary)
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