Charlotte Observer: Extremism will be what costs Romney this election

[kpete]

It’s proud ignorance and joyful ugliness, and all of it has been embraced and feared – but rarely criticized – by Republican leaders.

That’s infuriating to moderate conservatives who believe that legitimate criticisms of the president get diluted because they share the same house with the crazies and the uglies. How, some wonder, can voters choose a president who presides over a stagnant economy, an astounding debt, with no new ideas about how to change either? For some, it’s because the alternative means voting with the birthers and the racists. It means being on the same team as the debate crowd that booed a gay soldier, or the crowd that cheered the idea of letting a sick man with no health insurance die.

Yes, Democrats also have their extremists. And certainly, Romney has come under withering criticism from the left, some of it unfair and inaccurate. Every election suffers from a bit of over-the-topness.

But we have yet to see Romney hanging from a noose.

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/11/02/3640637/the-self-inflicted-republican.html#storylink=cpy

[nichomachus]

1. Do they specify what criticism has been unfair and inaccurate?

I am so fucking sick of the false equivalency of "they all do it."

In our local congressional race, the challenger, a Democrat, has had ads criticizing the incumbent's record. The incumbents' ads have been a barrage of slanderous attacks -- many of them from super PACS -- on his character. He hates Thanksgiving, he associates with terrorists, he supports cold-blooded cop killers, he is nothing but a stooge for Nancy Pelosi. (in those words)

The local right-wing rag says "they are both hostile."

However, the rag did endorse the challenger -- so even they know the incumbent is scum.