GOP ditching Rove's NatSec/Iraq attack to focus on swiftboating opponents

[BurtWorm]

Once a ratfucker, always a ratfucker...

<PS: on second thought, this probably really was Ratfuckin' Rove's strategy all along.>

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/09/AR2006090901079.html?nav=rss_email/components

In a Pivotal Year, GOP Plans to Get Personal
Millions to Go to Digging Up Dirt on Democrats

By Jim VandeHei and Chris Cillizza
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, September 10, 2006; Page A01

Republicans are planning to spend the vast majority of their sizable financial war chest over the final 60 days of the campaign attacking Democratic House and Senate candidates over personal issues and local controversies, GOP officials said.

The National Republican Congressional Committee, which this year dispatched a half-dozen operatives to comb through tax, court and other records looking for damaging information on Democratic candidates, plans to spend more than 90 percent of its $50 million-plus advertising budget on what officials described as negative ads.

The hope is that a vigorous effort to "define" opponents, in the parlance of GOP operatives, can help Republicans shift the midterm debate away from Iraq and limit losses this fall. The first round of attacks includes an ad that labeled a Democratic candidate in Wisconsin "Dr. Millionaire" and noted that he has sued 80 patients.

"Opposition research is power," said Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds (N.Y.), the NRCC chairman. "Opposition research is the key to defining untested opponents."

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[ck4829]

1. They're scrambling like bugs when they are exposed to light

First, it was about moral values, then they're focusing on national security, and now they're getting personal.

Nothing better than Republicans pressing the Panic Button.

The Path to 9/11

[Cobalt-60]

2. We can out do them at this

Most Republican candidates have very dirty secrets.
Lets write them across the sky.

[Monkeyman]

3. YEP

[AX10]

4. Yes indeed!

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