Slanders, Slurs and Smears
Yesterday, I was looking forward to the Texas primary being over and the candidates packing up and leaving Texas. Not because I was tired of the candidates, but because I was tired of the slanders, slurs and smears the candidates' supporters were slinging. Well, it's Wednesday and the mud is still flying. Today's The Dallas Morning News Opinion blog brings us these choice comments by readers:
"I can't wait until your Communist collaboration as a POW comes out into the open this fall. John McCain, you are a traitor to the United States of America and should not be nominated but tried and convicted instead"and this:
William Denbow
"Look at McCain's record. He lost a plane in flight school. He lost another on the deck of an air craft carrier where 130 men died. And he lost a third over Hanoi. Not a pilot I'd want to fly with. He also finished 5th from the bottom in his class at the Naval Academy and would have probably been kicked out if Daddy wasn't an admiral. Don't we already have a Daddy's boy for President? A guy who never would have made it without nepotism? A guy who prided himself on being a C student?"
Don Hartley
These posters don't say whether they are Democrats turning their guns on McCain or disgruntled Republicans unhappy with McCain winning their nomination. Regardless, they have the M.O. of Swiftboating -- don't bother to promote your candidate, just slander the guy you hate. Maybe it will take a day or two for the emotional high of an election to wear off and for the hate mongers to disappear from Texas blogs. I can dream, can't I?
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