Hey now... don't lump all of us Republicans into that category!
Some of us understand the importance of local, regional and national rail transit.
I don't know that I read it right, but the way I read it was along the lines that Republicans seem to do more low things in trying to get elected then democrats.
Locally, a few elections ago, our state senate representative was up for re-election. The republican oponent kept advertising and sending around information that our current representative, who is generally considered to fairly honest for a New Jersey politican, was friends with a town mayor now in jail for corruption- and that friendship was... 20 years ago. I've not seen things that low from democratic candidates. At least not around here.
At one time in my life, I worked with a group of grifters and sometimes on my own even. Pulling C games was something I was good at and it made me some decent money. I stopped ages ago. Why? Despite the fact that the variation I ran always operated on the concept of the mark hanging himself on his own disgusting and dishonest greed, I felt bad about, essentially, stealing. 20 years from now, does what I did before I was even an adult really count? I mean it does in being elected, but does it mean I'm a dishonest person at age 40, having grown up? No. In fact, I'd say that one of the marks it left on me is helping making me the blunt and brutally honest person I am- and people dislike.
In addition, I have had friends that I have dropped over the years because they became someone I didn't like. Dishonest, or sadistic, or stupid, or wasted away down the old drain on drugs, or they stayed in the racket and ridiculed me for leaving. But am I going to turn in someone I once considered a friend? Just out of some worn-out sense of loyalty, no. I won't help them commit a crime, but I won't tattle on them, either.
So in essence, a former friendship with someone who, decades later, did something dishonest is so irrelevent to an election campaign, its not even remotely honorable to mention it. Especially the way they tried hard to down play the age of the event.
I see democrats occasionally going after inappropriate actions on the part of oponents, but they are generally new and relevent. I mean, hell, Bush II got elected, partially, on a solid smear campaign of John McCain. Who, excluding political stance, the pride of a rooster, and a volcanic temper, is essentially untouchable.
And yes, I'm sure there are quite a few Democratic schmucks out there that do sick and disgusting things in their attempts to get elected, and Republicans who try to stick to fair things. I'm just talking generalities.
