Super PAC Ads - Pack a Punch
Negative advertising and campaigning in the 2012 Presidential Election are at historic highs. Do both sides use it? You bet. Does it work? You bet. This kind of campaigning is as old as our republic too.
The story of dirty tricks in American politics begins with the first campaign for President of the United States, in the 1790s. Thomas Jefferson hired journalist and pamphleteer James Thomas Callender to slander his opponent, Alexander Hamilton.
In 1972, U.S. Political history shenanigans like the Watergate campaigning scandal proves that mudslinging was alive and well over 200 years later.
Why would politicians in 2012, forty years after Watergate, change this winning strategy going forward? So, wild pot-shots, below-the-belt attacks and scurrilous accusations are still the red meat of bi-partisan political innuendos and character assassinations.
So, the educated electorate must use caution as they process the political messages, caveat emptor, buyer beware!
It is important to the nation and critical to the American people that Romney and Ryan get beyond all of the side distractions and the "new normal" that the President wants us to accept for our lot in life as a country among many in the global mix, the One World Order.
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