Reply #58: True, and yet... [View All]

[wryter2000]

While I agree with everything in your post, it seems to me there's always one thing left out of analyses of why they seem better at winning elections than we are. The fact is, they lie. Not spin, not stay on-message. The say things that are out and out not true, that they know are not true. Remember the Swift Boat Veterans for "Truth"? They're still out there.

Who was it who said, "A lie gets half-way around the world before the truth catches up with it"?

I hate to see us beating ourselves up for not having a unified message or a message that resonates with soccer moms or not being able to reach "values voters," when a large part of what makes them successful is out-and-out dishonesty.

Instead of us trying to figure out how to stay one step ahead of Karl Rove, I'd like to have us try to figure out how to counteract LIES!