Here’s a model of partisan debate between the gop and the
dems from the 1980s to a time not too far ago: Democratic partisans would be
winning on an issue. That is to say they would have the support of a majority
of Americans behind them. Let’s say the winning issue was “kids should eat less
sugar.” Of course kids should eat less sugar, but if control-obsessed conservatives
went along with the issue, it would mean (to them) ceding a victory since it
was a Democratic initiative in the first place. So instead of giving away an
easy victory by agreeing with Democrats, the Party that Lincoln Would be Ashamed
of would scuttle it all by accusing the Democrats of being “soft on vegetables.”
Instead of sticking to their message, Democrats would go on the defensive and
try to prove that they weren’t soft on vegetables resulting in an abandonment
of an issue they could have won if they had just had enough backbone not to be
scared off message. The Republicans would take a bunch of money from Big Sugar
and use that to beat more Democrats.
Nothing like a little redux as Barack Obama runs for
reelection without the help of any real surrogates. As Obama was getting some
traction going after Mitt Romney for being a Bain Capital vulture, a coterie
of cowardly Democrats disavowed
the Leader of the Party’s message. They were scared of being associated with
what Obama was saying, and the worst part is that no one from the other side
even had to do anything. Democrats, including a former two term president actually
self-wedgied. They self-swirlied. They became a Republican’s wet dream:
Democrats that are predisposed to scaring themselves off message. It’s not a big
deal that those Dems revealed their own lack of fortitude, but to not have the
back of the president who was on the winning side of a message was repulsive.
The likes of shithole mayor Corey Booker were scolding
Obama’s Bain angle as if Booker was the teacher and Obama was a fifth grade scamp.
WTF? And it seemed for a while as if Obama was scared away from using Mitt’s
“business experience” against him, but no. Obama is like the Marvel character Blade,
the half human, half vampire vampire fighter. It’s like Obama has enough
Republican in him to successfully fight Republicans. The Bain strategy is out
of the Republican playbook – take Romney’s strength and use it against him. The
Bain ads are back up and playing in the strategic markets. Wherever there’s a
white man who didn’t go to college, who is living close to the margins, but
wouldn’t vote for a black guy in a million years, there’s a Bain ad. Wherever
there’s a dude who worked for a company for years and then suddenly got fired
when a private equity company liquidated his firm, there’s a Bain ad. Wherever
people live in a place that looks like the “Silence of the Lambs” scene where
Jodi Foster is investigating the disappearance of Fredrica Bimmel, there’s a
Bain ad.
Romney’s only comeback to this attack is that “Obama wants
to punish success,” but that line’s got no grip on anyone outside of the people
carrying water for the 1%. When it comes to the contest of which candidate more
people see as out of touch, Romney wins! He’s the one that don’t get it, with
his patrician underbite and shit.
Someone was recently deriding Obama for the fact that he isn’t
grooming any underlings to follow up after him. No wonder. Fewer people in
Romney’s own party like him yet he seems to get more respect. At least there’s
no one sabotaging his strategy. Obama is probably in the process of looking for
someone to take under his wing. It’s just that the frisking procedure takes so
friggin’ long. Before you take on an apprentice, you’d like to know that said
apprentice won’t go on the Sunday morning shows and talk shit about you. It’s
insulting, especially when you know what you are doing is right. You would
think that the guy who killed Bin Laden could get some props from his own
party. How many times has Corey Booker been elected president? Exactly.
I have no doubt at the amount of shouting and cursing going
on at the Romney campaign HQ coming from Romney himself. Obama is bringing up
just what Romney dared not thought anyone would have the balls to call
attention to – his record. “Of all the nerve” must be what Romney is thinking
as this strategy sinks in. For him it must be frustratingly effective. It does
no good to think about how effective the message would be if high-profile Obama
“supporters” pitched in. They have their motivations, which may include trying
to stay in the good graces of the fat cats. Whatever their situation, we may
have a Little Red Hen going on in the barnyard. The leader of the Democratic
party has an idea, direction, and goal, but he can’t seem to get the rest of
the farm animals to get on board. When Obama wins a second term, the shirkers
and wusses will be filled with congratulations and hopes of selective senility.
I’m sure Obama is a better man than me and when that time comes, he won’t tell
them to go fuck themselves.
Romney = Sandusky, he's never done a thing in his past he isn't proud of.
ReplyDeleteKeep it up, Chip.
ReplyDeleteKeep it up, Chip.
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