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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFair game to use ads targeted at conserv. showing Romney's past liberal positions?
I have been wondering about the effectiveness this year of targeting ads at evangelical conservatives talking about how Romney is really a "liberal" and showing a lot of his past views such as pro-choice. Can he thus be trusted as a "true" conservative?
This is, obviously an effort to cut down on the turnout of the rabid right wing voters.
Progressives seem so concerned that these kind of tactics are "not right" or "hitting below the belt" but it seems to me that we need to be willing to use these kind of tactics since you will be sure that the worst kind of poison will be used against Obama.
If moral Gandi had lain down in front of Nazi tanks instead of British tanks (Britain being, at the time one of the only democratically based constitutional monarchies and thus subject to public pressure) he would have been a forgotton speck on the concrete.
Progressives need to face up to the fact that the moral high-ground is sometimes the ticket to losing--which is frequently the ticket to much worse evils down the road.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Hell, I would support ads that mention magic Mormon underwear too.
TheWraith
(24,331 posts)The flock of very well funded blogs touting Obama as a hyper-conservative crypto-fascist aren't just coincidental. They're not even terribly subtle about it, when you've got Jane Hamsher literally working for Republican candidates, flocks of trolls trying to convince liberals that Ron Paul is the REAL liberal hero of the race, etcetera.
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)...about positions but they might care about jobs
DuaneBidoux
(4,198 posts)I wasn't talking about an either or strategy. I think your thoughts are right.
But, I don't agree that right wing evangelicals don't care about positions--in fact I think that a lot of them are single issue voters and that single issue is abortion or perhaps gay rights. Since Romney was at one time pro-choice it seems to me that this group can be targeted. Even if they can't stand Obama they may be much less likely to vote.
Same for Romney's religion. Personally I don't care about his Mormonism but I know (from talking with them) that a lot of evangelical Christians are very uncomfortable with it.
elleng
(130,859 posts)useful down the road, as we can then urge his unpredictability.