I agree completely with Magellan in his assessment of the Bush campaign. He has nothing to run on accept propaganda and this administration have proven themselves the best yet at this type of manipulative action. They enforce party loyalty (even to go to a Bush rally you need to sign a loyalty oath) allowing for absolutely no dissent or discussion. Using a lot of heavily loaded words and ideas to make insinuations is nothing more then childs play to Rove and his colleagues. Complex ideas such as freedom, rights, and patriotism are used in a boiled down form that plays off the emotional responses people have to these heavy concepts. They have also mastered the media by exploiting the weakness of the desire to remain objective. While their style is disengenuious, manipulative, anti-intellectual, anti-democratic, and evil; they certainly are very effective at campaigning.
