"My job is not to worry about those people..."

[RobDownSouth]

I stopped reading after "whom".

You grammar snobs am all alike.

 

[The_Trouvere]

in campaign mode, hell no. there is no way Mitt could ever move the 45-47% starch democrats to vote any other way.

remember, its the democrats who believe in the fantasy that welfare is a career

If that is true, why did President Clinton sign the Welfare reform act of 1996?

 

[Colonel Hogan]

If Obama had said something similar, someone like you would've jumped down his throat AND claimed it had everything to do with "governing on behalf of [the] people."

Most certainly. And if Obama had similarly been taken out of context, someone like you would rise to his defense. That's politics. And most people understand that.

Dems and Repubs battle for that 10 to 20% of the electorate that are stupid enough to believe whatever partisan spin is being applied. Sometimes, it is not even about that. Often it is just an attempt to give a story "legs" for an extended period of time so that the opponent remains on defense rather than offense.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

The thing that struck me about the quote, was that it sounded like that was his instruction, not to worry about the 47%. So who is pulling his strings? Is he just a shill for a group of .001%'ers who instruct him on how to act?

You know like Obama?

Almost any political campaign for state wide offices and above is "professionally managed." That means pollsters and marketing gurus come in a test the electorate for hot issues both pro and con. The question attempting to be answered is, "What will get people off their asses and actually go out and vote for my candidate?"

That research is ultimately coalesced into a general message with specific talking points and specific "shut-the-fuck-up" points.

Invariably, a candidate will succumb to the temptation to "wing it." That's when campaign managers desperately wish they were doing almost anything else for a living.

 

[Cade Is Here]

You can tell when the board gets quiet then people have no choice but to reply to a rory thread!!