Republicans' Double Negatives

REPUBLICANS' DOUBLE NEGATIVES
[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: EJ Dionne Jr]
[Commentary] This year Republican campaigners and their advocates in the conservative media have crossed line after line in sheer meanness, triviality and tastelessness. Conservative optimism and its promise of morning in America have curdled into the gloom of a Halloween midnight horror show. The reason is obvious: With the public turning against President Bush's policies in Iraq, most Republicans would prefer not to defend the war. Because most voters do not see the battle in Iraq as making us more secure, fear of terrorism has not worked as effectively for the GOP as it has in the past two elections. And the current majority can't exactly brag about, say, balanced budgets or its achievements in this Congress.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/30/AR200610...
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* Ad echoes GOP's ‘Southern strategy'
[Commentary] “I just think those criticisms of it are wrong,” said Republican National Chairman Ken Mehlman of a television ad that was produced with money from his treasury and aired in Tennessee. In the 30-second spot, a scantily clad white woman appears to suggest that she and Harold Ford Jr., a black Democrat, have had an intimate relationship. The commercial plays to the fears of whites who think interracial relationships are taboo. It also conjures up memories of the awful fate that befell the Scottsboro Boys, Matt Ingram and Emmett Till -- blacks who were victimized for simply being accused of getting too close to white women.
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20061031/opcomtues.art.htm