Tuning Out the G.O.P.'s Siren Song [View All]

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Tuning Out the G.O.P.'s Siren Song

Posted by fedupwithlibs
On 02/06/2004 4:04:26 PM PST with 11 comments

The New York Times ^ | 02/06/2004 | Bob Herbert
Maybe it's too much to hope for. But I wonder if we aren't watching the beginning of a decline in the effectiveness of the Republican Party's divide-and-conquer strategy. For nearly half a century the G.O.P. has displayed an unparalleled mastery of the ugly art of devising campaigns that appeal to the very worst in us. It's always the whites against the blacks, the middle class against the poor, the conservatives against the hated liberals, with the word "liberal" spat out with the kind of disgust that's usually reserved for child molesters. The party's at it again this year with talk...