Muckraking as a Political Strategy

SEE HERE There is something distressing about the strategy of muckraking for old news that might reflect unfavorably on a candidate and then using it in an unremitting mudslinging fest.  It looks like Herman Cain is about to be given the treatment.  The hypocrisy of it is the first thing I tend to rise to.  I recall how ancient news about Barry Goldwater was used along with lies and fabrications to discredit him by the reigning Democrats.   The charges against Cain bear a noticeable resemblance to those made against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.  I always find it particularly ironic when the left which excuses every immorality in their own, choose to throw mud on others as if they are personally outraged.  Apparently the nation's moral sensibilities have declined to the point where we are expected to listen to the rantings of hypocrites.  RESPONSE I suppose it is a sign of desperation when the media has to dredge up unsubstantiated allegations from the past to slime the people they don't like.  Typical liberal progressive MO.  Welcome to what passes for political discourse in the United States these days.  And you want those people in office?  It's time for a change, a big change.  A LITTLE MORE  The failure to engage Cain on substantive issues ought to be more important than vague substance-less allegations that some women claimed to be uncomfortable with something he said.  In the timeframe of the allegations it was trendy for women to draw notice to themselves by accusing people of harassment.  I saw it happen several times where I worked in the 1980s.