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Originally Posted by Guest
The primaries on the Democratic side will not have many attacks of each others character. Sanders never has attacked his opponent's character, and Clinton will probably respond in kind.
On the other hand, the Republicans will. This might not be done in television attack ads. They will come in stump speeches, and interviews. Trump, due to his personality, and use of absolutes, will attack anyone that questions his past, or qualifications for the presidency. Everyone expect Bush, Walker, Paul, and Cruz will attack Trump's personality to get a raise, if possible, in the polls.
The 2016 general election, due to all the political action groups, and their money, destroying their opponents character will be the name of the game. It is going to be unbearable to watch. I hope that it gets so bad that the president and Congress to be will do something about the 501(4)c charitable political action groups. Enforce the IRS law as written in the early 50's. Do not let these groups perform any political activity. They can do it, but the IRS law that makes their donor's name public.
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Again, you begin your post with an implication that ONLY Republicans do the attack ad thing. You are either being deceptive or just are naive to think that.
You also skip over the ACTUAL CHARACTER OF EACH CANDIDATE. You speak as if they begin now as innocent babes and we certainly know that is not true. I think, on many of the candidates we already KNOW their background and character traits. As the campaign progresses we may find out more but my objection, for what it is worth, is your absolute generalizations and your absolute thinking that only Republicans will attack their opponent. That alone turns me away from this post and to ignore EXISTING character issues is just plain naive.
A long way to go and of course the only character attacks will come from Republicans as you made clear so lets sit back and watch