Only a few decades ago, Ronald Reagan — a staunch partisan — criticized the "radical conservatives" in California who thought " 'compromise' was a dirty word" and "wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today".
The unostentatious Gerry and Republican partisans criticized Gore for his lavish lifestyle, including his palatial Waltham residence and pompous activities he organized as governor, and highlighted his Loyalist family connections while emphasizing Gerry's unimpeachable patriotism.
However, not only did Truman, who ran a highly partisan campaign criticizing the "do-nothing Congress," maintain the presidency, but Democrats also had a net gain of 75 seats in the House and 9 in the Senate, taking control of both chambers.
Governor Scott's apparent motivations were reflected in his partisan statements criticizing President Obama.
Mr. Khuram, a Karzai partisan, was criticized last year for pressing broadcasters, including state-run television, to favor Mr. Karzai's re-election campaign.
This year's campaign on behalf of fossil fuels includes a surge in political contributions to Mitt Romney, attack ads questioning Mr. Obama's clean-energy agenda, and television spots that are not overtly partisan but criticize administration actions like new air pollution rules and the delay of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.
Burman noted that this follows a decades-long pattern in partisan politics Republicans criticize borrowing for the social spending that Democrats like, while Democrats don't put as much pressure on Republicans when they increase the deficit by cutting taxes.
And the cost-benefit analysis for a Republican demagogue considering saying something racist or incendiary — or for a partisan colleague contemplating criticizing such — never changed.
5. Allied partisans then criticize liberal pundits for saying there is "no alternative plan," citing the many plans that have been proposed, that went nowhere.
Sure enough, after Mr. Obama made his initial appointments — Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff, David Axelrod as senior adviser, for instance — the Republican National Committee immediately issued statements criticizing them ("partisan bomb-throwers," said a committee spokesman, Alex Conant).
