As for what I'm doing, let me just say that I have been involved in Democratic party politics for nearly half a century, worked in Washington, helped manage campaigns, I was the one who coined the term "fear monger" against Bush in 1992, helped craft the strategy that beat the "unbeatable" Al D'Amato (using scorched earth negative campaigning) and played a critical role in electing Obama, and I continue to do things along the same lines.
I also studied political science at one of the 3 leading Ivy League universities. I've studied military theory including Karl von Clausewitz and I know Machiavelli's "The Prince" chapter and verse like the back of my hand. I have several copies, each highlighted and annotated by me in a different way. And I can tell you that the same ignoramuses who worked for Clinton and allowed Gingrich to take over Capitol Hill are back at it making the same mistakes all over again in the Obama administration, destroying what I and so many others helped build. The first rule of all midterm elections is to energize the base, because in the absence of a presidential race only the most committed bother to vote. Instead, Obama is acting like this is some F*CKING ALIEN EXPERIENCE and his whole reality has nothing to do with that and it's all about proving he's not a liberal. In midterm elections this is a recipe for disaster. As Harry Truman said, "If you run a Republican against a Republican, the Republican will win every time." If you think politics has nothing to do with negative campaigning you don't belong in politics. When Schumer beat D'Amato EVERY SINGLE SOLITARY AD HE RAN began with the announcer shouting, "AL D'AMATO IS LYING AGAIN!!!!" And THAT'S how he beat the son of a bitch. D'Amato was a ruthless FASCIST and you don't beat a fascist by saying you're sorry. Polls now show that vastly more Republicans are enthusiastic about voting in the Fall than Democrats. But the Democratic party refuses to fight and they are still bringing a knife to a gunfight.
In 1992 political consultant Mandy Grunwald, working in the Clinton campaign, said it best. She said, "This campaign scares the hell out of me because there is no one who sits awake at night thinking how to f*ck the competition." Same with the Dukakis campaign. The GOP kept using him as a punching bag and Democrats BEGGED him to hit back but he just wouldn't do it and acted like fighting and hitting back was some kind of F*CKING ALIEN EXPERIENCE.
Obama is giving polite little love pats to the GOP compared to what other Democrats gave the GOP in earlier times. Humphrey in 1968 had huge baggage from Johnson's Vietnam war but he still nearly pulled it out by constantly calling Nixon, "Richard the chicken hearted." He wasn't afraid to INSULT the lousy creep. Lyndon Johnson in 1964 beat the crap out of Goldwater by running the "Daisy" ad that attacked him for wanting to nuke Vietnam. Goldwater needed to get the SH*T kicked out of him. He needed it BAD. And that ad did it. Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtYpnGZr6TA&feature=fvstToday Democrats don't have the BALLS to run an ad like that. It would be too inflammatory, too emotional (egads!), too passionate, too hysterical. The Republicans might get mad at us! ONLY REPUBLICANS ARE ALLOWED TO HAVE PASSION! All the great legislation passed since Roosevelt was passed under Johnson because he won big by kicking the LIVING CRAP out of Goldwater. Today Democrats don't have the guts to do that. THAT'S why we're losing, not because I didn't stuff enough envelopes, and by the way, I've been stuffing envelopes for Democrats since I was a kid.
But hey. Why bother. Let's all sit under the desk and in the closet being goodie little two shoes and let the GOP win. Who cares if the planet goes off an ecological cliff. Habitable planets are a dime a dozen in this solar system.
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