[thinkthenpost]

Semi-Rant on:
Why is pointing out an opponent's voting record going negative? I think saying someone molests collies is negative, saying they voted to raise your taxes and extend the AWB, for example is merely highlighting what they have been up to doing the job you sent them to do. I also think the conservatives in general and the GOP in particular have got to quit letting ourselves be defined by the other side everyone points at negative campaigning, I seldom agree that what they are raising as negative is an example of negative. The truth hurts some times but politics is not for the faint of heart.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I didn't quite mean to imply that merely pointing out one's opponent's voting record is going negative. I meant to say that Nelson will need to be personally villified to drive his negatives up beyond where Harris's currently are. If you can win an election without going negative, that's fine, but in more iffy contests where there is a misconception that our liberal opponents are "in the mainstream" when they clearly vote anything but, we need to be absolutely ruthless in defining them. After all, it's exactly what the liberal 'Rats do. When Saxby Chambliss went after incumbent GA Sen. Max Cleland and made him look soft on national security and defense, it did just the trick to unseat him, and the 'Rats squealed like stuffed piggies. Well, they like to think we're mean-spirited, why not act exactly the way they make us out to be, because it sure seems to work in winning ! ;-)