I'll tell you why I ask that question. I am a total cynic about electoral politics. My cynicism is boiling right now. I have this feeling that this guy is very smart. I have thew feeling that people who are bashing his apparent dumbness are whistling in the dark. I have to confess that most of what I have learned about him I got right here. I am sort of a student of the way folks here are reacting to good information supplied to them by people like George Lakoff. I have a strange history because as a leftist radical I fought hard to get the democratic party back on track in the 60s. I failed miserably! So here I am again so many years later watching history repeat itself. There was Goldwater then Ronald Raygun. Then came others.It has not really changed much. every time the self righteousness of the democrats won. They bashed these folk even though they never came to grips with what they did to the country when they were in control. Now I see them getting some sort of satisfaction out of finding things in Romney's speeches that clearly show that he has been trying to appeal to everyone even if that involves contradicting himself over and over again. Does this bother aytone here? Is there something being missed? read on below because I think there is something big being missed and I'd like to tell you about it.
What do you think will happen after the nomination is completed whenever that may be? Is it your vision that we have this "factual Record" about the man and that will be what defeats him? Maybe so, but I doubt it. In fact, if George Lakoff is right, and he usually is about these matters, repeating anything he said or will say during the campaign will simply strengthen the memes already laid down before and during this primary.
When I look at Romney and think back to what the shrub looked like at this point I get a bit concerned. The shrub really was an idiot as far as I can tell yet he had enough smarts to talk, lie, cheat, and steal his way into the presidency and then be re-elected after a horrible first term. Has that really sunk in yet? All that was accomplished by making fun of the shrub was to somehow help embed his slogans and memes in peoples minds. I know I am parroting Lakoff but the message needs repeating to embed it in our minds!
This site is a very important part of any effort to re-elect the President. This is a serious responsibility. Maybe I have missed something basic because as I read the stuff posted here I have chills run up and down my spine. What I would have expected to see is a minimal factual reporting of what was going on in the republican primary races and a whole lot of thinking about how to get Obama re-elected. What I do see is a lot of whistling in in the dark. No amount of bashing the opponents will win this election. The money they have coming down the pike is going to create media saturation. They probably don't need this side to parrot their memes but we seem very willing to accomodate them. The idea that repeating that trash with rebuttals attached is going anywhere is really missing the whole reason the opposition has been so successful in splitting the 99%.
Not only is it counterproductive to even mention the idiotic ideas the opposition has but it is basically being slack at doing the real job. We need a positive message that ignores them yet at the same time makes their negative stance clear without mentioning it. We need to go to work and come up with things we can repeat again and again before the American people until they begin to say these things themselves. The big advantage is that what we have to say is worth repeating over and over again. If you get my message then you clearly need to join in on the effort to get the job done. Bashing Romney is too easy. I am paranoid enough to feel that we are being set up. I hope I am wrong!