They play the race card.  If that doesn't stick, they toss out the gender card, as they have with Judge Moore.  If the opponent survives these attacks, then it's the class card, as it was with Mitt Romney.  If none of this works, it's the LGBT card.  Then there's the "E" card – just "too extreme," as with Barry Goldwater and Judge Bork.  When all of these fail, as they did against candidate Donald Trump – and all of them were played – the left freaks out and starts throwing things. All of these attacks are versions of the same logical fallacy: the ad hominem argument.  Ad hominem attacks are called "fallacies" because they have nothing to do with logic per se.  They intentionally deflect the discussion from ideas to personal issues instead of policy ideas or questions about one's ability to perform the job.  The fact that Mitt Romney's wife owned two Cadillacs, something...(Read Full Article)