It's worked in the past -- and both major parties have played this particular "card."Flailing.
I guess the thinking is- we can't run on our record, so let's make a bunch of stuff up. If they can sling enough mud, maybe some of it will stick.
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
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