I remember a Blogs United conference where Creigh Deeds was a featured speaker and he said,
“We have to change the tone of the debate and put a stop to the endless bickering and gamesmanship that has come to define politics. We have to reject the poisonous language that is used to describe the other side?”
I guess Deeds was talking about everyone else but himself, because his first email blast contains a good bit of “poisonous language” describing the other side.
Deeds gets shrill writing about “the disastrous economic and social agenda of Bob McDonnell” and that McDonnell is “going to try and buy this election.”
He even uses the standard attack line “Virginia simply can’t afford four years of Bob McDonnell.”
I knew Creigh Deeds would ditch his promise of a positive campaign. I just didn’t expect him to break it on the first day.