Frank:

You've oput your finger on one of the key questions. When certain kinds of rhetoric -- bombast, vicious ad-hominems, straight misrepresentation delivered with perfect certainty, intentional distortions completely separate from any logic -- get thrown, the less-thoughtful masses tend to by the reactions. This puts the whole question on a different footing. The number of times I have seen this kind of wild-eyed party-line distortion actually take effect is mind-numbing. Bush is a master of delivering pronunciamentos that are logically enough to make you barf, with a straight face. Even here in the Mudcat this sort of thing gets pulled regularly, although with less success.

What's the answer to dirty rhetoric? If the Dems roll out a campign around RFK Jr the first they'll do is throw acid in his face, rhetorically speaking.

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