[contemplator]

Good pushback, but it will fall on deaf ears. The media has successfully coined ‘swiftboating’ in the minds of the public to refer to any privately funded attack which does the ‘dirty work’ that the candidates themselves won’t do. I’ve mentioned it before and it bears repeating, the left in this country are extremely effective when it comes to the war of words. The right needs to start learning the lessons and get better at it.

[AU72]

Every Presidential Election I will toast the Swift Boat Vetrans for Truth for standing in the way of a Kerry Presidency.

[rockinqsranch]

“The right needs to start learning the lessons and get better at it.”

Agreed 100%. Essential.

[Shermy]

“the left in this country are extremely effective when it comes to the war of words.”

Obama is already successful in the white liberal news media in branding attacks as “racist.” Anybody who’s racist against blacks won’t be voting for Obama anyway, they can’t be converted. But blaming future attacks as “racist” serves to rile up white liberal guilt, and donations. It also amnesties the liberal audience from having to question the merits of attacks on Obama.

Obama has some weaknesses. Not only his corruption, but that all his corrupt deals were with white people, and whom he called “friends.”

[firebrand]

Yes, another attempt to define the landscape, along with the "smear" and "rumor" mythology.

The Dems should remember that the "swiftboating" worked.

[Old Sarge]

the left in this country are extremely effective when it comes to the war of words. The right needs to start learning the lessons and get better at it.

Don't give up breathing or drinking while waiting for the right to ever change.

( /no sarc)

[Nick Danger]

The media has successfully coined ‘swiftboating’ in the minds of the public... I don't believe that. I think the reporters and editors believe it, but none of them have any friends or acquaintances who aren't liberal Democrats. When they use the term, everyone around them nods in agreement. Let's not forget that this is the same media that is going slowly out of business, that has lost the public's trust, and that is widely perceived to have a persistent liberal bias. If they were half as influential as they think they are, we'd be nearing the end of President Gore's second term. Or at least Kerry's first. Every time they use a term like "swiftboating," they remind half the country that they are partisan ax-grinders who can't be trusted to tell the truth.