Why do you persist in believing that 3rd grade tactics will have a positive result?
We are NOT that desperate!
We have real facts and substantive issues to win on, and the playground tactics only detract from that, because then the opposition can point to that and avoid responding to the issues.
Because it works. Reagan routinely called liberals out on their BS and was hugely successful in getting his agenda passed by an often hostile Congress. Reagan would routinely use mockery as a weapon to great success.
Contrast this to the past 7 years of George W. Bush telling everyone how he loves to work with certain Democrats, and look where that got us.
This is an election, not a essay writing contest, if dirty tricks result in conservatives making some kind of political comeback in 2008, then so be it. Preserving this great country, at least for me, is more important than playing "fair."