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...guys get tips from the campaigns? Sometimes. We encourage it. We actually had the opposition research folks from both major political parties in here for brown-bag lunches. It's been a standard offer of mine, ever since we started, to any candidate or party - if you see something on the other side that you can prove is wrong, please let us know. We're going to check it out. We're not taking your word...
...this campaign less honest than those in the past? I don't know. I was working pretty hard in 2004. I think that twisting and distorting and sometimes even falsifying facts - even self-delusion - is just a standard part of the democratic process and probably has been since the Greeks invented it. Campaigns tend to be deceptive, just by their very nature...
...last year, that’s cool, I love that, but I got to get mine too. So we bring that extra intensity.” “You know, obviously we weren’t playing last year, so I know I hold myself to a higher standard, and him too,” Desmond adds, nodding to Brenton. “Everytime it’s game day, we’re like ‘it’s here, man. We’ve been waiting for this.’ It?...
...Then there was her pained, and painful, response to Couric's questions about the Bush "freedom agenda" - the goal of spreading democracy in the Islamic world. Predictably, Palin repeated standard Bush platitudes about making "every effort possible to help spread democracy for those who desire freedom, independence, respect for equality. That is the whole goal here in fighting terrorism. It's not just to keep the people safe, but to be able to usher in democratic values and ideals around this, around the world." That theory, though, has been discredited by the debacle in Iraq and years of inconvenient outcomes...
...handled those Culture War arguments so well in the ’92 campaign, ushering in “war room” tactics that stayed with the Democrats for more than a decade. And worst of all, with Al Gore as the party’s new standard-bearer, it seemed like the GOP might be able to win the ultimate contest this time around.For many Democrats, the logical conclusion was that only bullying could answer bullying: substance is great, the thought went, but bite is best. Since then, Dems have gone through two losing presidential campaigns...