The Republican party has announced its official strategy for the fall elections:

Republicans are planning to spend the vast majority of their sizable financial war chest over the final 60 days of the campaign attacking Democratic House and Senate candidates over personal issues and local controversies, GOP officials said.

The National Republican Congressional Committee, which this year dispatched a half-dozen operatives to comb through tax, court and other records looking for damaging information on Democratic candidates, plans to spend more than 90 percent of its $50 million-plus advertising budget on what officials described as negative ads.

...Because challengers tend to be little-known compared with incumbents, they are more vulnerable to having their public image framed by the opposition through attacks and unflattering personal revelations.

Here we see this party again revealing its true colors. If they believed in themselves, their message, or their track record, wouldn't that be enough to run on? It would, but they don't, and neither do a majority of the American people: polls left and right find majorities unhappy with the way Republicans have been running the country and opposed to Republican positions on major issues.

If you disagree with that, ask yourself: why else would they choose to play dirty?

It's because they only care about one thing: winning. Power. Anyone who considers themselves Republican or who's thinking of voting Republican should ask this serious question: would you resort to behavior like this in your own life? Would you want your children to behave like this, to believe that this is the right way to conduct themselves in life?

If the answer to those questions is no, then how can you support a group who makes it their official policy? How relative are your morals?

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