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Negative Campaign Ads Work Wednesday, October 8, 2008 11:40 AM By: Dick Morris & Eileen McGann If there is one Darwinian adaptation that the American people have made to modern times, it is the ability to sift through a wide variety of claims and determine for themselves which are specious and which are accurate. We realize that the days during which we could trust any one media outlet or candidate to give us the full story are long over — if they ever existed in the first place. We realize that truth is a synthesis of the various claims made...

Before I get into how the DUmmies are already attacking Sarah Palin, let me congratulate the Democrat ticket of Obama bin Biden for choosing Beaver County, Pennsylvania for their campaign kickoff. That is why Li'l Beaver is making his cameo appearance in this edition of the DUmmie FUnnies. Okay, now for Sarah Palin. Oddly enough, your humble correspondent was good buddies as a youngster with an Eskimo from Alaska. And the strangest thing about this is that this was when I was living in Puerto Rico. Fred Duncan might have been the ONLY Eskimo in Puerto Rico. I sure...

I just went over there to look at their "Latest" page..of 45 articles posted, 34 were about Sarah Palin (AND her husband, AND her daughter), (could be more but I didn't click the titles to see what they were actually about), 2, count them, 2 were about Obama, the rest are other stuff.. McCains choice has certainly knocked the Anointed One off the radar, even to those dedicated followers.. heh..I said it earlier, this was a brilliant move by McCain..

By Stephen Marks Everyone’s complaining about how lackluster John McCain’s campaign has been. Well, I’m here to shake things up with the launch of a new 527, pH for America, and our first ad, “The REAL Barack Obama,” that will have liberals whooping and hollering “Swiftboat!” and “Willie Horton.”The “pH” in pH for America stands for “Political Hitman,” which is how I describe my 14 years as an opposition researcher - the polite Beltway euphemism for those who dig up dirt on political opponents - in my book “Confessions of a Political Hitman” (Sourcebooks, 2008). This 527 was formed to...

Mike Barnicle has some campaign advice for John McCain: don't say anything bad about Barack. The former Boston Globe columnist, with a heartfelt second from Mika Brzezinski, wants the world to know that he's heard enough about Reverends Wright and Pfleger, not to mention Bill Ayers, and thinks McCain would "win a few points" for staying away from all that stuff and concentrating on the important issues facing Americans—like better batteries. Barnicle made his suggestion on today's Morning Joe in commenting on an audio clip of Obama warning a crowd this past Friday that the Republicans will, among other misdemeanors,...

The decision by the abortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America to pull an incendiary ad attacking President Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court has produced a fresh round of recriminations within the Democratic Party and a return to a nagging question: Has the opposition lost its nerve? ....some choice pieces: "Republicans don't mind running an ad that's entirely false, but Democrats have never learned, and I'm not sure many of them want to learn, how to play that kind of politics," said Robert Shrum, an adviser to several Democratic presidential campaigns. NARAL had to pull the ad, he said, because...

In April, Zack Exley was named director of Internet organizing for presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, making him the Democrat's point man on the cyber front in the battle for voters. His background: the operator of a satirical website called GWBush.com and the subject of a federal complaint filed by lawyers for George Bush, according to a report in the LA Times. Exley’s GWBush.com site in 1999 featured doctored photos of then-Governor Bush with cocaine residue under his nose. Exley also posted fake campaign statements under such headlines as "George II: Restoring the Throne to its Rightful...

<p>A CNN story about speculation over a Hillary Clinton or Al Gore presidential bid contains this odd quote from Sen. John Kerry, the haughty, French-looking Massachusetts Democrat, who by the way served in Vietnam: "I've never not seen a presidential race during which people are not speculating about people who are not in the field."</p>

<p>WASHINGTON - Al Gore's spokesman in the 2000 campaign has been hired to lead the communications team for Senator John F. Kerry's presidential campaign, aides said yesterday.</p> <p>Chris Lehane, a native of Lawrence, Mass., and longtime resident of Maine, will be senior adviser for communications, and Robert Gibbs, most recently press secretary for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, will be press secretary for the Kerry campaign.</p>