Partly Facetious: Negative politics does not work

"Hashmi got 13,900 less votes than Dogar."
"Pervez Rashid focused on the low turnout and said that it indicates that the people reject Imran Khan's demand for mid-term polls and he did not dwell on the fact that from 83,000 votes in 2013 he got 38,000 and Dogar from 20,000 got 52000 just sixteen months down the line."
"A lesson learned by politicians world-wide, including the US, has been that negative politics does not work and let's be honest Hashmi did engage in negative politics."
"I have a theory!"
"Not like Martin Luther King's dream is it! You remember his famous 1963 speech which began with I have a dream where he called for an end to racism and let's be honest that dream remains unfulfilled given public anger after the murder of a teenager in Ferguson Missouri a few months ago by a white policeman."
"You always look at the glass as half empty. What about the election of the first black US President who has a Muslim middle name to boot in today's world of paranoia against Muslims?"
"The only thing black about President Obama is his colour and the only thing Muslim about him is his middle name".
"Well, granted that the Muslim world and the West remain as polarised as during Bush's tenure..."
"Coming back to my theory about Pervez Rashid: a lesson learned is how to turn a reasonable, logical and largely respected individual into an unreasonable, illogical and disrespectable individual? And my response is appoint him as the Minister of Information. Look at the history of this august office - we had Kaira who reportedly went after his own colleague, the lady who fell off her..."
"Horse?"
"No, I don't think Firdous Ashiq Awan ever rode a horse, she fell off her heel."
"So Kaira did well, I mean she took to wearing heels after she was appointed as the Information Minister and had she retained the office she could have busted both her ankles."
"Don't be facetious - then there was Mushahid Hussain, remember how he attacked the media, of which he had been a member, when Nawaz Sharif appointed him the Information Minister."
"But there is a difference between Pervez Rashid and all his predecessors."
"Well, he is a nice, kind man who..."
"No, unlike his predecessors he is also a minister for national heritage".
"You are being facetious."