One of the interesting things to watch over the last couple of weeks has been the wailing and gnashing of teeth by Obama's supporters over the remark about his prior drug use by the now former head of Clinton's New Hampshire campaign. The Clinton supporter pointed out that Republicans were likely to go after Obama over his admission that he once tried cocaine, which is contained in his autobiographical book, Dreams of My Father. According to Obama's supporters this comment was beyond the bounds of good taste and was an example of dirty politics.
After the drug remark by the Clinton supporter came the comment by a western Obama supporter that Bill Clinton's shenighans was going to be a drag on the Democratic ticket if Hillary Clinton gets the nomination. Clinton's supporters couldn't believe that anyone, let alone a Democrat, would be so crass as to bring up the whole Monica Lewinsky episode.
Well, here's our point of view, for what it's worth: Both subjects are legitimate topics of political debate during the Democratic primaries. The Republicans will bring up Obama's admission of drug use and they will bring up the so-called Clinton scandals of the 1990s. Republicans don't play fair, and they fight dirty. If Democrats think that the Republicans won't try and slime the Democratic nominee for President, then we have a bridge we want to sell you.
The Republican Party has nothing left to run on. Fiscal conservatism? They lost that issue about two trillion dollars of Federal debt ago. Terrorism? The public is no longer buying that scare tactic. The economy? Basically it sucks. The Iraq War? Oh, yeah, that's a real winner for the GOP. All it can do is slime Democrats and hope for the best.
We might as well find out now how our Democratic candidates handle a tough and nasty campaign because that is what they are going to get next fall.
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