Reply #4: To me, our candidates have to prepare for THIS phase of the campaign... [View All]

[GainesT1958]

As if it WAS the general election--with the main difference being to emphasize things that resonate more with our "base", while still reaching out to "swing" and "independent" voters. Especially in terms of preparing for a negative onslaught.

Many of the folks who helped Repub candidates in the 2002 elections will now be right in there with "Chip" Rove & Co. assisting in "oppo" research for Dub. One guy who helped out Jebbie in Florida even goes so far as to brag about his kind of strategy with a license plate that says "GO-NEG". Since there won't be very much positive--other than in appealing to HIS base--that Dub's team can say about their wimp, they're going to attack our potential nominee in ways that will make what the late Lee Atwater did for Poppy, and to Dukakis, in 1988 look positively mild by comparison; be sure of that one. And they've got that $250 million-and-counting in the bank to do just that.

All I can say is, if you don't believe how low they'll go, just ask John McCain about the 2000 South Carolina primary experience. :mad:

B-)