Watching the Democrats employ the ultimate smear campaign against Mitt Romney has been the most disappointing campaign I have ever witnessed.
Democrats in recent months have accused Romney of being a felon, a tax evader and now a direct contributor to someone’s death from cancer. I understand that Mr. Axelrod and Mr. Obama have used this technique quite successfully in previous campaigns and so they are bringing out the big guns one more time
Sadly, Mr. Obama did promise never to resort to such tactics as noted below in a campaign speech from 2008 but you know what they say about how you can tell if a politician is lying.
Some liberal democrats that I have tried to discuss this with using data and facts have tried to silence me with yelling, screaming and death threats.
Yes, the days of the ultimate weapons of choice to win an election or a debate have arrived. Campaigns have always been dirty, but these unsubstantiated allegations by “unnamed sources” are a new low.
The way I see it, there are only a few things left for Romney to be accused of:
1. Wife battery
2. Pedophilia
3. A desire to reinstate slavery as a personal affront to the President once he is out of office.
4. That gun-toting Republicans will be ordered to shoot Democrats randomly in public places should the GOP lose the upcoming election.
But let’s explore this a little. Maybe I am wrong.
Maybe these guys are on to something.
Perhaps if we consider some scenarios that ring closer to home that we will be able to see the power and wonder of this technique.
Bidding For Business
You might consider my competition, Mr. Prospect. Hopefully he will have dug himself out of the court case with his last client by then. What are the details? Oh, I can’t say. That’s confidential information.
Business Relationship That Ended
Of course I couldn’t work with that guy any more. I don’t work with guys sleeping around on their wives. Who is he fooling around with? I can’t say because I wouldn’t want to hurt his family.
High School
Dear Mr. So-and-So. Here’s a picture of you and my fellow student so-and-so (you don’t know that it’s photoshopped). I’m expecting to have a good year in my senior year, if you catch my meaning. I’d hate for this picture to get onto Facebook by accident.
School Yard
Mommy, Sarah keeps picking on me!. That’s ok, Dear. The next time Sarah picks on you, tell all the other kids that her Daddy touches her where he shouldn’t and she will stop picking on you.
Bored Soccer Mom
Can you believe that she said she didn’t like my new purse? Maybe if she didn’t spend her time snorting lines of coke at home that she might still have some semblance of taste.
Sprinkle in some social media as we embrace this and we’re reaching the masses with our “powerful” message.
Yes, the possibilities are endless.
But wait! What about the example we are setting for our youth?
Screw ‘em – they’re just a bunch of devil-worshipping, drug-dealing, lazy people, aren’t they? They don’t care.
The Reality
Anyone who knows me knows that I don’t believe this about young people.
But there are three things I do believe when it comes to our youth.
1. We emulate our leaders in thought, word and action.
2. That which we tolerate today we embrace tomorrow.
3. The legacy that we are leaving for our youth and the models of behavior that we want them to emulate leave a LOT of room for improvement.
I believe we can and must do better and that we must hold ourselves and our leaders, whether in politics, business, religion or anything else to a much higher standard.
What do you believe?
Or worse …. do you even care?
Someday you will.
In service and servanthood,
Harry
PS Here is what David Rothkopf, a well-known Democrat, thinks of the current Democrat campaign - Reid's Romney smears an insult to voters.
Sometimes the greatest insult of all to someone is when their intelligence has been insulted or they are being used but they don’t know it or don’t stand up to fight it. But then again, people who suck it up incessantly without question make for the perfect electorate, don’t they?
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