Clever and insidious dems will teach their protege's to look, talk and act like conservatives until they get into office.
That's the zero way.
Actual Headline.
GOP Bares New Platform for 1950
Party Charges Truman With Promotion of Socialism in America
"The Republican Party opened its 1950 campaign tonight with a new platform charging the Truman Administration with promoting socialism in America and allowing 'Communists and fellow travelers' to infiltrate the government."
It's from what has to be the one-millionth-attack-Joe-McCarthy book The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism, by Haynes Bonner Johnson (2005)
Mr. Johnson, not exactly impartial as I remember the McNeil-Lehrer PBS show, continued, "There it was. All that was lacking was someone like McCarthy to light a bonfire and elevate campaign rhetoric into a movement that would ruin lives, discredit the United States, and affect the country for years to come."
Change Truman to Obama and then all that's lacking are the cheap, stereotypical typings of modern "journalists" such as words like racist, xenophobic, homophobic, ignorant, Bible-and-gun-clinging, and teabaggers. Word processors have PF keys for that.
I saw this movie when it was released 60 years ago. It ain't pretty.
But the adults did not have modern talk radio and the Internet.
Some major cities had conservative newspapers to counter the liberal ones. None in Kentucky that I recall where I grew up in the "Dark and Bloody Ground." Required Disclaimer: I did not mean anything by "Dark and Bloody Ground", it's just an interesting fact of precolonial Kentucky history. Required: Signed this date March 29, 2010 12:54PM. Required: Witnesses . . . .