"If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names."

The National Republican Congressional Committee, a panel devoted to electing GOP House members, has spent $745,000 since Sept. 1 for ads slamming the Democratic hopeful, Michael Arcuri - and $82,000 to pump up their own candidate, Ray Meier.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, a similar panel dedicated to helping Democrats, countered by shelling out $167,000 to promote Arcuri and $160,000 for mailers hammering Meier, according to data compiled by the campaign watchdog group PoliticalMoneyLine.

NY Post, Oct 3, 2006

So, for every 1 dollar the NRCC spends telling us how good their candidate is, they spend over 9 dollars attacking Mike Arcuri.... Civility in the Alternate Universe.
Maimun