The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has begun an interesting tactic in several campaigns across the country, as Politico is reporting: Divide and conquer.
According to Politco, the strategy is that if DCCC can convince enough people to vote in favor of the third party candidate, then the Democrat can win with a plurality.
That strategy is playing itself out in Virginia’s Second and Fifth Congressional Districts.
In the Second, the DCCC is attacking independent Ken Golden for being in favor of cutting spending by 2% on all non-defense related programs, supporting tax cuts that might “endanger” entitlements, and closing the borders.
To a conservative, you might read that and say, “what’s wrong with that?”
Well, that’s precisely why the DCCC sent it ONLY TO HARD REPUBLICANS from their voter list!
Their goal in both the 2nd and the 5th is to drive up the independent’s voters at the expense of the Republican. Here are both sides of the Golden flier:
Of course, this one is likely to get the ire of some because of the Obama photo, but I love how they throw in “Is Kenny Golden too conservative for Virginia?” Yea…like that’s going to dissuade the people they sent it to.
In the 5th, they’ve been a little bit more brazen and, as posted here on BD, have received the ire of former GOP conservative candidates that remained in the primary: Jim McKelvy, Mike McPadden and Feda Morton.
The DCCC is alleging that Jeff Clark is the “true conservative” and is sending out mailers to make their point that only one candidate opposes all tax increases:
Talk about a comprehensive reverse psychology operation. If the DCCC pulls this off, I’m not sure whether to fear them and what they’re capable of doing to this country (the government is not allowed to conduct PSYOPS on the American people) or applaud them for a brilliant campaign tactic.
