Here's a pretty column on Conservative tactics:
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Economists hate this kind of politics. The fiscal position of the government is weakened incrementally by all sorts of little holes. The neutrality of the tax system is eroded. Benefits, once given, are hard to revoke, even if circumstances change.
The little cuts do nothing for overall national productivity and competitiveness. By weakening the government's overall position, these sorts of cuts make it harder to implement the really large changes that might spur productivity and competitiveness. Worse, they usually wind up subsidizing people for doing what they were already doing, or intended to do without the subsidy, as in taking public transit, buying a house, having lunch.
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The Rovian approach, now being used by the Bush campaign strategists running Senator John McCain's presidential campaign, is to attack your adversaries relentlessly with whatever distortions are necessary in the greater cause of victory.
For months, Mr. McCain has been claiming that his opponent Barack Obama will "raise your taxes." Every independent analysis of the Obama platform agrees that about 95 per cent of Americans will pay lower taxes under the Obama plan. No matter: The McCain campaign keeps up the distortion and never retreats from it.
The Conservatives are using the same attack strategy against the Liberals' "Green Shift." The Liberal proposal will raise taxes on carbon-producing products (but not gasoline) and lower taxes on incomes and companies. Mr. Harper says, however, that there will only be a "carbon tax," a distortion of the Liberal position. Nobody, Mr. Harper insists, should believe any politician who says the new revenues from a tax on carbon would be used to reduce other taxes. Never happens or has happened, he says, even though B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell is doing a similar tax shift. Is Mr. Campbell a liar, too?
That Stéphane Dion can't be believed is a message reinforced by attacks ads. Karl Rove would approve.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080917.wcosimp18/BNStory/politics
CKA Uber 
Don't you ever get sick of being a partisan hack all the time searching for ways to blame the Libs.
