Republican Campaigns

[Landslide Lyndon]

Second of all, I have no doubt that an Atwater-style campaign would have made the election much closer, perhaps even ruined Obama's chances.  McCain was just too nice a campaigner, and at times his campaign seemed impotent.  The decision to suspend the campaign because of the economy was the worst EVER.  In September/October he allowed Obama to make the campaign narrative.  He just couldn't distance himself from Bush and he hardly even tried.  Terrible campaign.

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[Landslide Lyndon]

I give Bush's '04 Campaign and A. Considering outside circumstances, and Bush's presidency, Bush really did a good job. I wouldn't vote for him, but he did a great job winning voters he had no buisness winning. He was a weak candidate, but he ran a good campaign. Overall though, pretty weak field for the most part. It's quite interesting when you think about it, because Reagan, Nixon and Eisenhower were all great candidates who ran great campaigns.

Bush'04 campaign was a disgusting, demagogic and dishonest campaign. When you are an incompetent president who is destroying America in the name of God, the only way to campaign is to say that you opponent is an antipatriotic ( Kerry loved France, what an horror ! ), an intellectual ( according to Bush everyone who isn't stupid as him is an intellectual ) and a traitor ( contrary to Bush, Kerry did the Vietnam War ). Bush'04 campaign is just nauseating, it's a concentrated of stupidity, bigotry, demagogy and calumny.

When you're so invested in a candidate and he loses, it's not surprising that you would find his opponent's campaign disgusting.  Kerry stupidly wrapped himself up in his Vietnam credentials.  Remember his silly salute at the convention?  The problem was that Kerry did some things in Vietnam that were less than patriotic and often treasonous.  Secondly, the 'intellectual' attack and anti-intellectualism in general is based not on a dislike for intelligence but a dislike for elitism.  Kerry was the richest Senator and he was never able to connect to the average voter.  His wife Teresa made a speech at the convention in several languages to show how 'worldly' she was.  His affinity for France did nothing to help his image.

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