smear campaign

This article is about how the smear tactics of the Republican Party are losing their impact. They mainly focus on the rumor that presidential candidate Barak Obama is a Muslim, and that republicamsism is pro- American and those that don’t agree are anti-American.
The author of this article is obviously writing for the democratic viewpoint of their readers. There is no named author but the editorial board is named which says that more than one person’s opinion is being stated. The evidence they have used is the recent comments from vice presidential candidate Sarah Palines comment about “how glad she was to be in "pro-America areas of this great nation."”. Also the recent comment by U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, a Republican from Minnesota. In answering a question about Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama on a national cable show on Oct. 17, Bachmann said: "Absolutely — I'm very concerned that he may have anti-American views." They had no quotes about calling obama a Muslim.
While I agree with what this article is saying i.e. just because you don’t agree with GOP’s doesn’t mean you are anti-American and even if Obama is a Muslim (which he isn’t) should that change the fact that he is a good candidate. However the article is about smear tactics and they mention nothing of what the democrats have done, or the fact that obama just spent millions on a 30 min infomercial. Sarah Palin doesn’t need the democrats help making herself look under qualified or obtuse. You can’t scold one party and not the other. America loves smear campaigns, why do we do them? Because they work, if they didn’t no one would waste the money or time on them.