Is going after a man's family when the candidate is running for President of the U.S., fair and needed ?

Question

Is anything abut a candidate off-limits or is politics a free for all in which everything and everyone connected to a candidate is fair game?

Giuliani's Game Plan for 2008 Found
Former Mayor to Raise $100 Million in 2007
AP
WASHINGTON (Jan. 2) - The presidential campaign strategy for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani includes a $100 million fundraising target for this year.

The paper said an anonymous source obtained the document after it was left behind on a campaign trip in 2006, though Giuliani spokeswoman Sunny Mindel told the paper the "suspicious activity" was a dirty campaign trick.

The schedule includes a plan to raise at least $100 million in 2007 by reeling in big Republican donors like Fred Smith, the CEO of FedEx, the paper reported. Smith is already supporting Senator John McCain 's bid.

The document also predicts some $100 million could be spent against Giuliani to highlight political vulnerabilities like his three marriages and moderate stances on social issues, including gun control and gay rights.

Answer 1

Honor isn't an American consideration, dude. Check the spooks. That's where everybody takes their cue. And they are absolute filth.

Answer 2

Totally unnecessary. I can't stand it when politicians attack things like a candidate's family, private life, personal experiences, etc. If anybody would do that to me, I'd sue the bugger until he/she gets debt to death! Politics is a free for all game and in the states it's terrible. What a coincidence, the same time money got into pro sports, it got into politics! Get rid of the filthy politics/business bond or at least neutralize it. Why does the winner always have to be the one with the money? Is this like during the Roman Empire, man? Geeze, I really hope 08 is the year other Americans will vote for whom they want to win. During the past, people weren't afraid to vote for Teddy Roosevelt, La Follete, Thurmond, Wallace, Anderson, Perot, were they? It's been 16 years since a third party or independent candidate hasn't done well. Smear campaigns and mudslinging are for wimps, wusses and thugs! Thanks for your time!

Answer 3

I know its hard to do but you must find out what the candidates stand for that's the only thing that matters but that wont stop the Democrats from pulling out the old smear campaign playbook as usual. You may have to look a little bit harder to find the stance of the Republicans running than the general media but do not let that dissuade you from looking just so you can decide who to vote for based on the ideas and not the prolific propaganda.

Answer 4

Well conservative run on a high moral ground! So if they are less then moral don't you think the republicans need to know. That would be like Newt running, would it be the publics right to know that he dumped his wife for his mistress, by telephone while his wife was in the hospital recovering from cancer! Or would the republicans perfer finding out the same way the found out about Foley?

Answer 5

Apparently the Republicans don't mind using anything to win an election. Look at the Swift Boat ads in 2004, the ads used in the Tennessee Senate race in 2006, the rigged elections in Ohio in 2004, and the current attacks on Barack Hussein Obama because of his middle name.

Answer 6

with the aid of fact he knew you will remember it for him, despite if it grew to become into years in the past. Why did John McCain run on a platform of being a maverick, in basic terms to morph into the main conservative Senator interior the construction? He now espouses positions he does no longer have even considered 6 years in the past, and in touch in the final wing vote. grew to become into that one in each and every of those consistency you have been finding for?

Answer 7

I don't see the American lust for tabloid headline inspired campaign tactics rescinding any time soon.

Sex and infidelity will always make headlines before boring budget numbers.

Is it fair? Of course not. Will it ever stop? Only when people stop buying the "supermarket rags".

Answer 8

It is extremely unfair and it is probably the reason that more qualified candidates DONT run for higher offices.
GREAT QUESTION!

Answer 9

unfortunately that is the way candidates try to undermine their opponents----it's been going on in elections since the beginning