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The history of Republican dirty tricks:
CREEP (1972) -- Lee Atwater (1990) -- Karl Rove (2000)
As usual, Fint has it entirely backwards. Its not that Dems are any nicer, I don't think, but the Repubs have virtually locked up hardball politics since Nixon.
Smear? Off the top of my head, John McCain, Paul O'Neill, Richard Clark, Joe Wilson, John Kerry ("Swiftboating" is now a verb), Gen. Shinseki, Gen. Zinni, Larry Wilkerson. They tried Murtha (saying he had joined the Michael Moore faction of the Democratic party, calling him a coward), but reversed course when they realized it was doing more harm than good.
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We will stay the course. [8/30/06]
We will stay the course, we will complete the job in Iraq. [8/4/05]
We will stay the course *** We’re just going to stay the course. [12/15/03]
And my message today to those in Iraq is: We’ll stay the course. [4/13/04]
And that’s why we’re going to stay the course in Iraq. [4/16/04]
And so we’ve got tough action in Iraq. But we will stay the course. [4/5/04]
Well, hey, listen, we’ve never been “stay the course” [10/21/06]
--- George W. Bush, President of the United States of America
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