Fair game to use ads targeted at conserv. showing Romney's past liberal positions?
I have been wondering about the effectiveness this year of targeting ads at evangelical conservatives talking about how Romney is really a "liberal" and showing a lot of his past views such as pro-choice. Can he thus be trusted as a "true" conservative?
This is, obviously an effort to cut down on the turnout of the rabid right wing voters.
Progressives seem so concerned that these kind of tactics are "not right" or "hitting below the belt" but it seems to me that we need to be willing to use these kind of tactics since you will be sure that the worst kind of poison will be used against Obama.
If moral Gandi had lain down in front of Nazi tanks instead of British tanks (Britain being, at the time one of the only democratically based constitutional monarchies and thus subject to public pressure) he would have been a forgotton speck on the concrete.
Progressives need to face up to the fact that the moral high-ground is sometimes the ticket to losing--which is frequently the ticket to much worse evils down the road.
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