Old Fashioned Mudslinging Shows Just How Old Republicans Are

The Really: Robocalls, mudslinging, six-packs and the politics of fear still work?

McCain seems old. Physically and intellectually. The tactics are from old campaigns and Army-McCarthy hearings. This may be a tactic to solidify the "old" vote but it may be falling on deaf ears. And now, Obama is a socialist? Is he?

What do the socialists say?

Greg Pason, National Secretary of the Socialist Party USA: “Barack Obama's programs are not socialist. The vast majority of his proposals are anti-worker (or he might say ‘pro-business’). His health care proposals are more to save the for-profit insurance industry and do not have the goal of ending for-profit insurance. He has refused to support a Senate version of HR676, which would create a single-payer program (not socialist but much better than we have, and [which has] the support of labor and community organizations across the US). Many of his other economic proposals are pro-corporate.A socialist program (even a reformist one) would not be a program that props up capitalism when it fails, but one that transforms the economy. None of Senator Obama's proposals do that. Senator Obama’s tax plan is regressive and even less ‘progressive’ than programs put forward under such conservative administrations like the one of Richard Nixon.”

We will not need to get out our copy of Red Dawn --and view it for instructions-- just yet it seems.