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Another Reason Why Ayers Won't Work

Making attacks on Ayers a centerpiece of McCain's campaign signals the intellectual bankruptcy of the conservative movement he purports to lead. The conservative David Frum, writing about a week ago:

We conservatives are sending a powerful, inadvertent message with this negative campaign against Barack Obama's associations and former associations: that we lack a positive agenda of our own and that we don’t care about the economic issues that are worrying American voters.

And besides, it won't work.

Republicans used negative campaigning successfully against Michael Dukakis and John Kerry, it’s true. But 1988 and 2004 were both years of economic expansion, pro-incumbent years. 2008 is like 1992, only worse. If we couldn’t beat Clinton in 1992 by pointing to his own personal draft-dodging and his own personal womanizing, how do we expect to defeat Obama in a much more anti-incumbent year by attacking the misconduct of people with whom he once kept company (but doesn’t any more)?





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"David Frum " is not a conservative but a Jewish neocon, anathema to paleoconservatives. He can go to the special place in Sheol for all neocons and McCain and Lieberman. These Marxists were peaceniks who opposed the Vietnam War but radical hawks for Israel's wars. That’s right; many of them were former Marxists: such as the man behind the Jewish supremacist magazine, Commentary, Norman Podhoretz. Other radical Zionists pushing for these wars(Iraq and Iran) include the former Marxist Daniel Horowitz, President Bush’s official spokesman Ari Fleischer, his speechwriter DAVID FRUM, and close advisors Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Elliott Abrams, David Wurmser and Douglas J. Feith.

Posted by: Buchanan on 10/15/08 at 10:56 AM  Respond

What's with that business about Obama not keeping company with Ayers anymore? The weird thing is that someone like Ayers, who had been there and knows how this kind of thing happens, might be the best advisor a president could have in keeping it from happening again. Let's face it, there are plenty of crooks, known and unknown, in Washington, and the sort of Realpolitik the Repugs seem to want requires dealing with them. Oh, that's right, it's that "appearance of evil" thing. Too bad they aren't repulsed by the evil as much as the appearance.

Posted by: smitisan on 10/15/08 at 10:58 AM  Respond

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