The Santorum campaign simply can't respond in kind to the Romney camp's attacks, he acknowledged, so his goal with "Rombo" was to "make it that every time someone sees their negative ads they think about this ad, and it backfires on them".
Conservatives reject this line of thinking, arguing that Mr. Cuccinelli's problem is that he drifted from his roots and ran an overly safe campaign on the economy without responding in kind to Democratic attacks on his social views.
It's fair, therefore, to imagine what an anti-McCain campaign launched by independent groups supporting Obama will look like if left unfettered by mainstream Democratic operatives afraid to give offense to groups of voters, the same weak kneed folks who brought down Dukakis, Gore and Kerry by not answering in kind to being attacked by The Right.
All of Trump's work-in-progress transition to presidential mode can go out the window if he (Trump) responds in kind to an attack and things go downhill from there.
This means that the old rules of military deterrence which favoured powerful, technologically advanced countries like the United States do not apply: Responding in kind to a cyber attack could be effectively impossible.
The senior staff members who discussed tougher, in-kind responses to the attack ads did so as an exercise in considering options, but ultimately did not press Mr. Gingrich because they knew his preference for focusing on "positive solutions" in his ads.
I also believe we no longer manufacture chemical weaponry so we are not capable of responding in kind to a poison gas attack on an American city.
He adds that a Scripps Howard poll in July 2006 "had 36 percent of respondents suspecting government participation of some kind in the attacks, with just over one in six believing that explosives had been used to bring down the twin towers".
South Korea recently said that any North Korean shells falling south of that line would be considered an attack and responded to in kind.
Under the Chemical Weapons Convention, signatories forswear possession and use of chemical weapons, and undertake not to retaliate in kind if chemically attacked.
