Newt Gingrich once said, "Go negative and do it early." The point is to win.

Ads can also go positive to get votes. Last election the GOP made a big deal out of how badly they had messed everything up and begged the voters for one more chance to fix things. Job, job, jobs if only you show some pity! And they retook the House.

So far not one thing the Republicans have done has had anything to do with jobs unless it involves firing state workers, but since begging worked so well last time I guess they are planning on using it again.

Please note that I am not passing judgement on these dishonest job-destroying low-lifes, I am only noting that they used positive advertising last time and it was effective.

Throwing yourself before the people, admitting you destroyed their lives, and begging for forgiveness may sound like an odd way of getting votes, but then there was a legendary case of the guy who killed his parents and then asked for mercy since he was an orphan.

I wonder how that worked out for him?

I believe that was the Melindez brothers who murdered their parents. Case was heard in CA (IIRC); chances are they got off.

they got life. without the possibility of parole.

(though some people thought their father was a creep?)

Negative campaigns = Negative Politicians IMHO. :)

Good analogy !!!
But then they will say its hard to be positive in such a negative environment !!

I guess life wasnt meant to be easy !!;)

Negative campaigning is used because negative campaigning works.

The interesting phenomenon is that party apologists call their campaigning, "Telling the truth about their opponent". The other side calls it "Lies and distortions."

Choose sides. Begin.

Negativity is the worse deceiver, do you agree? :)

I prefer facts.

Spinning pos or neg is prevarication.

No thank you.

Facts are subjective, just ask your local scientist. :D

An assertion that is subjective is not a fact.

You're a fascist. oops wrong thread. :D:D:D:eek:

But facts are subjective to the person pondering the validity. :)

The story about a man who killed his parents and then begged for mercy since he was an orphan was first recorded as being in a speech by Abe Lincoln. It probably predated his speech, but there is no written record of it before his use of the phrase.

Lincoln was using the phrase to describe a Hyprocrite, but I don't know if it really fits. Perhaps it did in the 1860's.

I was used the phrase in order to get a laugh.

Had I been of age at the time, I would have. I like the current policy in which a felon loses the right to own weapons, but can apply to have his civil rights restored after he serves out his sentence and keeps out of trouble for a specified period of time, which I believe is three years.

That would be an ignorant person, not a 'subjective' fact.