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...strictest sense. Because, in truth, Election 1994 was not about sending leaders to Washington; it was about sending a message to Washington regarding how bad we thought our leaders were. It followed a campaign in which a picture of someone alongside Washington's Capitol dome was tantamount to a smear and in which all but the most atavistic incumbents abstained from leaderly chest beating for fear it might mark them as "insiders." If we could have sent no one to Congress, we would have. Those whom we did send, needless to say, were the proponents of "small government" -- that...
...been a safer stand," Gingrich admits. "It also would have been worse for America. In the long run, the party that stands for something and is willing to live by what it stands for has an enormous edge over the party that is cynical and negative and has only smear campaigns and attack advertising...
Nixon implied -- falsely -- that Voorhis was virtually a communist. "Remember," said one of Nixon's ads, "Voorhis is a former registered Socialist and his voting record in Congress is more socialistic and communistic than Democratic." This kind of smear was to become a Nixon trademark. To one of Voorhis' supporters, Nixon later offered a very personal rationale: "Of course I knew Jerry Voorhis wasn't a communist, but I had to win. That's the thing you don't understand. The important thing...
Konstantinos G. Tsakonas '93 founded the magazine Points of Reference and was director of the Business Club last year. But students said that after he graduated, he tried to control the organizations, appoint his successors and smear his rivals...
...Someone is trying to smear me," he said, "Iwould suggest that whoever has these complaints gothrough [the established] procedures...