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Originally Posted by MysticCat
By any means necessary, huh. The ends justifies the means.
Nothing turns me off of a candidate faster than dirty campaigning -- whether he's doing it himself or whether it's being done on his behalf by his surrogates.
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^^^Agree.
Unfortunately, what generally happens is one side will start it all rolling and then the other side has a rather hard chose to make:
1) Ignore it and stay on message.
2) Fight back
A) In defense
B) In attack
And I think most of us can agree that "1" generally does not work all too well.
IMVHO, what we have already seen is just the very start: A surrogate group will say or do something and the target will address the issue and "ask" their opponent to stop it.
The opponent wit either reply that he will try or he just has no control over the group.
And the matter stays in the news cycle for a few more days and the only true winner is the surrogate group.
