In response to:
"Just because the Obama campaign is running a disgusting campaign doesn't mean it will hurt them. Negative campaigns remain extraordinarily effective."
The Cruz-Dewhurst race is one data point that shows that there might be a new normal here. Disgusting campaigns are tailor made for stupid electorates. I pray that the last 3 years have educated at least 50.1%.
Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate has utterly unhinged the Obama campaign. Last week they were happily jabbering about Romney's record at Bain Capital, implying that he had killed a man's wife, stating that he was a tax cheat and blaming him for outsourcing jobs. This week they're stuck defending Barack Obama's $700 billion cuts to Medicare and spending addiction.
That leaves the Democrats with one solution: get ugly.
Joe Biden led off the festivities in Virginia this week, where he informed the population of 49-percent-black Danville that "he said in the first 100 days, he's going to let...
1. They understand and approve the party's platform of envy, Balkanization, dependence, confiscation, meddling, and fraud.
2. They don't care what the politicians do as long as their freebies roll in.
3. They've just come out of a 50-year coma.
4. They've lmastered willing suspension of disgust to maintain a personal habit or family tradition of voting Democrat.