What do Repubs consider off-limits when attacking Obama?

[kentuck]

And what should Democrats consider off-limits when attacking Romney??

Is it fair to accuse Barack Obama of being born in Kenya? Is it fair to accuse the President of being a Muslim? Is it fair to accuse him of being a puppet of Wall Street? Is it fair to attack the President's wife for her ideas on healthy foods? Is it fair to call him a socialist? Is it fair to call the Healthcare Act "Obamacare"? Is it fair to attack Obama for his support of marriage equality for gays?

If the Repubs or their subordinates attack Obama on all of the above, what should be off-limits for the Democrats to attack? Shouldn't we be better than them by not attacking Romney's Mormon religion or his wife, no matter if they attack Michelle Obama or call the President a Muslim?

Aren't we better off not to get down to their level of attacks??

[1StrongBlackMan]

1. I do not expect ...

the Obama campaign to talk about anything but romney (his character and his platform); but will stir clear of family (except maybe to raise the fact that romney, probably, wouldn't have gotten his father's vote) and religion. Even in response to the gop attacks.

[kentuck]

2. Repubs take pride in being the kings of negative attacks...

..and they will hold back nothing. They only respect power and the will to use it. Just my opinion.

[1StrongBlackMan]

17. I agree ...

But "personal attacks", i.e., family, religion, etc., won't sway goppers or convince independants; they will, however, dissuade independants and some Democrats.

Better to hit the gop with hard and documentable facts.

[Bake]

3. By any means necessary.

Bake

[magical thyme]

4. fortunately Mittens is an easy target

with a large history of videotaped shit to introduce voters to him.

On the other hand, here I have no problem with dissecting his religion and any and all of his advisers, including his sr. adviser on women's affairs.

[liberal N proud]

5. After years of the republicans having no limits

It is time they get a taste of their own medicine.

I like the way the Democrats and Obama Campaign are on the attack and not sitting back hoping the Republicans play nice this time.

[kentuck]

7. perhaps if the Democrats can beat them at their own game...

...they may decide to compromise a bit the next time around? They surely have no intent of compromising so long as they get their way.

[bigtree]

6. I like the strategy of mirroring

. . . that the Obama camp has used in response to the little blurbs from the Romney campaign. They distort the President's words and we feed Romney his own back, and so on. It works.

k&r for the body of the query.

[kentuck]

8. Everytime they throw a right jab....

We throw a left hook.

[bigtree]

9. remembering to keep our guard up

[11 Bravo]

10. In order of your questions: Nothing, nothing, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, nothing, no, and FUCK NO!

[dembotoz]

11. i have been getting racist hatefilled emails about obama ever since he became the front runner for

the nomination--before then it was evil attacks on Hilary before then it was.....

the is no such thing as too low for a republican

[mac56]

12. Do NOT bring a knife to a gunfight.

[Rex]

13. Nothing, remember they impeached our next best POTUS

over issues in the bedroom. They have no shame.

[butterfly77]

14. I say

No. Its time to start kicking ass and taking names!!!

[coalition_unwilling]

15. Are you kidding? Romney is a psychopathic bully. The only

language psychopathic bullies understand is domination and submission. We need to make Romney and his followers submit! Either that or they dominate. Which do you choose?

[cynatnite]

16. The difference is that Romney will have his surrogates attacking on those fronts...

That way he can keep his hands clean and pretend that he has no control over those tactics. It's been done in previous elections.

[Angry Dragon]

18. I say it is time for the democrats to kick the republicans

back into the Bowels of Hell they came from
amd so nothing is off limits

[jeff47]

19. No, we are not better off

Because then we're out of office.

The way you end this kind of evil politics is to use it to utterly destroy the Republicans. Until it crushes them, they will keep using it.

You can ask Presidents Gore and Kerry about the wisdom of taking the high road.

[TexasProgresive]

20. To the ? in the title- Easy- not attacking is the only think off-limits.

I would say that it is OK for us to do the same but it just doesn't seem to stick. And what's maddening is that most of what the left has to say about the others is true as opposed to their lies. I guess it is easy for people to accept fiction as opposed to fact.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

21. "What do Repubs consider off-limits when attacking Obama?"

If the last 3-4 years have taught us anything, NOTHING! They've attacked him relentlessly for just about anything and everything, including things that every modern POTUS has done, they've attacked his wife.

I don't believe that we need to respond in kind. There is plenty of substantive material to attack Romney on without going overboard with personal attacks (i.e. Mormonism) IMHO.

[Bluenorthwest]

22. All of these 'we need to use soft mitts on Mitt' threads make me wonder who 'we' is supposed to be.

Should the President use all manner of attacks? No. Should others, on his behalf? You bet your ass. And listen up. The GOP attacks Obama not only on the basis of his faith-they made a huge issue out of Rev Wright, a man I like. Yep. I like Wright. They made a candidate's pastor an issue. When they ran that tap dry, they stopped damning him with his brand of Christianity and started calling him a Muslim. So how's about we give them one. We won't attack Republicans for holding religions they don't hold, so Romney's Jainism is off the table.
I just don't get how you can look at all of the things they do and start in on making forbidden lists. I'm not 'nearly a Republican' maybe if I was, I'd understand you guys who want kid gloves for entire modalities of attack. If someone takes a crucifix off the church wall and starts to beat you with it, must you allow this out of respect for their faith? Yet if they used a baseball bat, you'd fight back, for it is a secular weapon?