I’m guessing you missed the 2012 POTUS campaign, where the left attacked with rumors, innuendo and outright lies.
That was their entire campaign, yet the low information voters loved it and flocked to the polls for them. Why in Ohio some voted 6 times for our dear leader.
Did you notice Barry didn’t run on any program or policy, just that Romney was an evil, successful business man, and surely could not be trusted with our government.
Yet Republicans must play fair and never mention the opponents negatives.
I get it. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is not a perfect conservative -- far from it, in fact. His embrace of the president during Hurricane Sandy's aftermath was overly effusive, even if it aligned with his bipartisan, results-oriented brand. His decision to accept Obamacare's Medicaid expansion after blasting it as a form of "extortion" is a hypocritical, government-growing mistake. His cautious hedging on gun control rankles...
Do you have any idea how much tax payers money have been spent on poverty since LBJ decided to end poverty? We have more poverty today, (47+ million on food stamps) and in case you didn't notice we are broke.
Go ahead and look back at Reagan's language, while he did go after liberal ideology he did it with a smile and with a message of hope.