September 3, 2011 | Filed under: News | Posted by:
Think partisan name-calling has reached new lows? Actually, mudslinging is a tradition as old as the republic, right up there with baseball and apple pie. The Founding Fathers were no strangers to the well-aimed political slur. What’s more, style and content have held remarkably steady through the centuries. While researching “Slinging Mud: Rude Nicknames, Scurrilous Slogans, and Insulting Slang from Two Centuries of American Politics,” I discovered that although the details change with each election cycle, the overall themes-corruption, incompetence, extremism, warmongering, ignorance, wasting taxpayer money-tend to stay the same. Here are a dozen mudslinging classics from earlier American eras. With a little tweaking, most could still work today.
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