Say what you will about the republicans but they know how to work the PR machine. They know how to manufacture a story. They know how to play the mock outrage card.
The part that I cant figure out is why the Dems dont fight back more on these issues. I am reading about this Boehner comment and the outrage of Ried and Dean and it seems kind of clumsy...
The hard part for me is it that truth is on our side - Sometime I feel like these commercials write themselves.
George Bush talking about how he doesnt think about Osama very much.
Bush joking about those missing Weapons of Mass Descrtuction while a crowd looks on and laughs.
Hastert saying the buck stops with him and then blaming everyone else for his mess with foley.
Terry Schavio, Katrina and the levys that no one could have anticpated, etc.
I feel like I never see these commercials - Although I do really like the new commercial that finally calls Bush on the BS that "we have never been for stay the course" - I hope this commercial is running across the country.
I feel like the only thing that works with these people is shame. Well shame and the truth. Shame that Bush was trying to avoid a 9/11 comission. Shame that Cunningham was a crook. Shame that Delay was so so so corrupt. They need massive amounts, since small doses of shame are easily shrugged off (Delay, Schavio, etc).
So thats why I dont understand why no one is talking about the easiest Ad there could possibly be. Maybe even easier that the new stay the course ad.
The Republicans are corrupt, they are not accountable for anything, they never apoligize (until they are caught) and they can't be trusted to police themselves.
Why?
Because Bob Ney is still a member of the US House of Representatives.
How many weeks has it been since he pled guilty in court?
How easy is this ad? How easy is this for ever democratic strategist for any talk show - for any time anyone talks about accountability to say "Well we know what republican accountability looks like ... they wouldnt fire brownie (and he stayed on the payroll), they wouldnt fire Rumsfeld, and they wont even get rid of Bob Ney after he pled guilty in court (seems like he is still on the payroll as well)?
Are the Dems afriad of Jefferson being thrown back at them? I just think this is so easy. Can you imagine any other scenario where a Rep of the House pleads guilty in court and is still getting paid through taxpayer money. I can't. How many news cycles is this worth if someone pushed it from the PR side?
I wonder if there are more obvious issues like this that arent being brought up that we can push for people to start covering in the media. Maybe even a little "real" outrage instead of mock outrage. The kind of real outrage I kept waiting for when the Repubs wore fake purple hearts to the 2004 convention and talked about supporting the troops... but just never seemed to occur. The kind of outrage that I felt when i watched bush joking about not finding any WMD's and said aloud to myself "wow this guy will never win re-election now." You know - REAL outrage!
Maybe its all just IRAQ. - all IRAQ all the time... and I should just shush....
It just seems so simple. People understood the Foley thing because it was simple and I think this one is just as simple:
Why is there a crook still in office at the House of Reps?