There is a time for every purpose under heaven. For instance, if your wife asks, "Do I look fat?" when she is all dressed and made up to go out, that is not the proper time to have a discussion about the health risks of obesity.
When I condemn the use of such negative language in a campaign, I'm thinking in terms of what kind of language will:
1) Immediately get picked up and branded negatively by the mainstream media,
2) Distract attention unnecessarily from the good qualities of the candidate, and
3) Be used to portray conservatives as racists and haters.
Competent adults do not shoot from the hip; they make choices and live by them. Conservatives are not in a mere contest for the office; we are in a war for the nation and our ammo is running low right now. Therefore a verbal bullet should not be wasted.
Unnecessarily nflammatory language is a poor strategic choice. Does not matter how people "feel" -- that's for liberals. What matters is what will get conservatives elected. Fighting words should be used with great precision. Those words "subhuman m*******" were scattershot.
Just another example of why the GOP is called "the stupid party."
“Unnecessarily nflammatory language is a poor strategic choice.”
Just pointing out that bama said it first. And Ted can point that out. But I do agree with you.
When I condemn the use of such negative language in a campaign, I’m thinking in terms of what kind of language will:
1) Immediately get picked up and branded negatively by the mainstream media,
2) Distract attention unnecessarily from the good qualities of the candidate, and
3) Be used to portray conservatives as racists and haters.
They do this anyway. While I agree with you in many respects, I am tired of having to “walk lightly” so as to not offend anybody. Screw them. People who do not get it by now, after two elections and all the crap going down, are not wanted anyway.