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The Year the Democrats Punched Back
This time around, when the GOP campaign turned nasty, the Dems were ready and waiting
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First, the Republicans tried to attack Democrats on national security, their
old, reliable soft-on-terrorism gambit. But that didn't work, in part because
George W. Bush's own National Intelligence Council issued a report that said
the Administration's policies were probably adding to the sum total of
terrorists in the world. Then the Republicans tried to accuse Democrats of
being soft on illegal immigrants. But that didn't work because the President
himself was notoriously humane on immigration—and it was the Republican
Congress that had failed to produce a tough immigration bill.
