Think what you like. Playing nice and above the fray accomplishes nothing. The average american voter pays more attention to who's ahead on American Idol than to national and international affairs.
Not responding just leaves the dems latest lies firmly implanted in the average voter's otherwise empty head.
Hit them in kind, call them liars and show why they are liars, be nasty and the gop will get more respect by standing up to them as well as showing the crats that their "repeat the lies often" tactics will no longer work.
That includes not bowing to political correctness or giving up free speech rights because you are afraid you might offend some lowlife member of the rat party.
Sorry, but the results of the last 3 elections disprove your points. You can expose them for what they are without being "nasty". When we did that in 2002 and 2004, we won. When Ann was "nasty" in 2006, we lost.