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LD-26 Republicans Go Way Negative
Posted: 02 Nov 2008 03:53 AM CST
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by David SafierThe lies, distortion and hate are flying fast and furious from
Republicans Al Melvin and Marilyn Zerull in LD-26. The candidates who are
running clean (everyone except Vic Williams) have gotten infusions of last
minute cash because of independent groups spending money on their opponents'
behalf. (I think Clean Elections is a great idea, but this is getting
ridiculous.) The Dems -- Cheryl Cage, Don Jorgensen and Nancy Young Wright --
are using the money to buy mailers and TV time sending out a positive message.
Melvin and Zerull are using it to create hit pieces.
Cheryl Cage, according to Melvin's TV ads and mailings, is a raving leftist
loony. Um, no. Cage is a centrist Democrat, while Melvin . . . Well, if we
created a line with the center as zero, the left side going up to ten liberal
and the right going up to ten conservative, Cheryl would get somewhere in the
two-to-five liberal range, depending on the issue. Melvin would be up in the
six-to-ten conservative range -- though, to be honest, I don't know any issues
where he's as low as six. But Melvin's camp thinks, if we can portray Cage as a
wild-eyed radical, Melvin will be viewed as the safe choice. It's the
Republicans' up-is-down campaign world.
Nancy Young Wright, according to Zerull's hit pieces, is against children and
for deadbeat dads. The fact is, Wright was a school board member who had the
courage to clean out the corruption in the Amphi School District and get more
money into classrooms. She's fought for kids, and gotten results. Education is
her number one issue. And the deadbeat dad thing? I have no idea what orifice
they pulled that one out of.
You know, Republicans talk about being the party of values and morality. They
never tire of telling us how they're the good, God-fearing people, and
Democrats are in league with the devil.
Remind me, isn't bearing false witness kind of a no-no? I seem to remember it's
number nine in those Commandments conservatives want to put on state house
lawns.
I guess if you tell everyone how good and moral and family-values-loving you
are, you don't have to worry about dotting all those silly Biblical i's or
crossing all those cumbersome Commandment t's.
NOTE: I just got a robocall from Al Melvin complaining about flyers the
Democratic Party ("Democrat Party" in the robocall) sent out spreading lies
about him. I haven't seen the flyers, so I don't know what they say. But I
guess Melvin is a little sensitive about negative campaigning when it comes his
way. "Don't reward the Democrats for this negative campaigning. Vote Al
Melvin," he said, or something to that effect.
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What He Said.
Posted: 01 Nov 2008 10:07 AM CDT
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BlogForArizona/~3/439114571/what-he-said.html
by David SafierFrom Andrew Sullivan, a brilliant,
tends-conservative-but-is-voting-for-Obama journalist and blogger, about
blogging:
For centuries, writers have experimented with forms that evoke the imperfection
of thought, the inconstancy of human affairs, and the chastening passage of
time. But as blogging evolves as a literary form, it is generating a new and
quintessentially postmodern idiom that’s enabling writers to express themselves
in ways that have never been seen or understood before. Its truths are
provisional, and its ethos collective and messy. Yet the interaction it enables
between writer and reader is unprecedented, visceral, and sometimes brutal. And
make no mistake: it heralds a golden era for journalism.He's right. Not all
blogging is good of course, any more than all novels are good. But the best
blogging is a vital new communications medium that changes the way we perceive
the world.
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