"Everyone knows what republican means-- get the refs off the field and give the poor rich people a break. The past decade was a laboratory for that premise and everyone knows how that movie ended."
I'm....no-one. Just a young guy who's not (now) exceptionally involved in politics, who has on ok-ish job (customer service for a big P&C carrier) that pays ok-ish money (33ish), no big contacts or connections. But I think the 35 words above are as concise as I can make a pretty compelling argument. That has the added advantage of being true. If I'm just some schlub. why haven't I heard anyone on the Sunday shows, any of the "elders" ostensibly on "my side" say anything ever half as pithy as the few words above?
"He's just an empty suit," they said during the campaign. The "celebrity" ad(the one they went with, the one they had in can in case he didn't go to the hospital and exploit our troops for his political gain, as opposed to the other one they had in can...) was partly a dog whistle for the people who read the big Left Behind sci-fi series in the 90's, the people who are predisposed to believe a Dem prez is literally the devil, but mostly made to tie into the same theme as HRC's "3am" AD --- He just gives speeches, he's eloquent but lacking experience? Governance vs Rhetoric....
Who'da thunkit? It's the messaging!
The governing seems to be there -- from the pirate guy, to the NK current girls, to actually being smart enough to not endorse the guy we like in the Iran election, to not being a barter economy with 40% u6 -- there's about a dozen crises the past year I shudder to think had the election gone the other way.
EPA, FDA, DOE -- any position remotely "science-y"...you can imagine who was in it after a decade of Bush, and those jobs seem to be getting grown-ups installed in them. Tarp, stimulus, Detroit, Afganistan -- all mind-boggling expensive, but at least honestly present in the Budget, which I guess is something.
But the messaging?
Half a year wasted on the patently absurd question of "can we possibly keep a whole per cent plus 200 people in prison"? You do best what you do most.
The other half wasted on death panels?
Are you frakkin kidding me?
The opposition has now spent a full calendar year offering only "I disagree" as reflexively as your 3-year old niece...and they still have equal time? What the what????
Who's gonna have the stones to give a response as pithy as the 35 short words above?
Does everyone my age HAVE to get their news after ten-year repeats of Futurama? The media is so so so so broken.
Why can't our "St Ronnie" frakkin communicate the way everyone says he can????