Maintain focus. More important: Trump Wall or copy-paste? Don't let media lose perspective.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

Melania's speech? Boiler-plate platitudes millions of politicians have said.

Let this die.

Avoid distractions like this that take the focus off Trump crap like the Trump University scam.

Keep the focus on his Database to track muslims, his boondoggle wall, his racist rants against Mexicans.

[font size="+1"]Don't let the media let Trump's war on women slide off the radar. This or Steve King's White Supremacist rant?[/font]

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I think we're quite capable of thinking about and discussing more than one thing at a time.

[sarae]

3. I agree.

There's no reason both can't be highlighted.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. We are capable. Media is not. Media has limited focus.

Talk about it all you want here.

No point in trying to make this 'plagiarism' viral on Twitter.

Make Pence's 180 degree flip-flop on immigration viral. Any of a hundred more important real issues should be viral over this.

What counts more: Trump blaming Black Lives Matter or Melania's paragraph?

[Maven]

2. NO. DO NOT let this go.

Fight on every front.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Sure fight on every front if every voter has unlimited attention span. They do not.

What do you want the swing voters to remember in the voting booth in November? Wife's copy-paste or Trump's racist immigration problems?

[Maven]

11. His racist views are out there already and will have many more opportunities to come out

in subsequent news cycles, during the debates, etc.

The whole convention so far has been laced with hate and ugly nationalism, and anyone can see that. It doesn't mean we don't seize on this story, especially when they have been attacking our candidate as dishonest and untrustworthy

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. You forget the fundamental mechanism of advertising: REPETITION

The reason the Republicans hammer "emails" and Trump repeats "crooked" is to make it stick.

Time spent on arguing fine points of similarity of canned platitudes takes voters' attentions away from the issues that Democrats need to make stick in the minds of voters.

Need to constantly remind low information people of the racism, hate and ugly nationalism.

Democrats need to repeat Democratic issues, not spouse's minutiae.

[MohRokTah]

4. I'm grabbing onto it like a PITBULL

Nope, not letting go.

[Drunken Irishman]

5. No. Do not let this go.

Some dismissed Romney's 47% tape as nothing but irrelevant because it wasn't direct policy. We should focus on his stance on the issues, they said. That tape was DEVASTATING. Often, it's the small stuff that brings down a candidate.

Just ask Howard Dean and John Kerry.

KEEP AT IT.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Romney's 47% tape was fundamental regarding POLICY attitudes. Melania is not fundamental.

The Kochs hated the 47% tape issue.

The Kochs are going to love this distraction away from Trump's idiotic economic policies.

[Drunken Irishman]

10. Trust me. Politics is all about the small stuff.

Kerry windsurfing had NOTHING to do with policy or issues and the imagery fucked him over in 2004 - defining him as elitist and tying perfectly in with Bush's attack on him being a flip-flopper. Howard Dean's scream should not have disqualified him - but it did. Gore's sighing was irrelevant, really, to anything substantive and yet it killed him. Bush at the checkout counter in '92, Dukakis in the tank in '88, Musky wiping away a tear in '72 - all the small, petty shit did those campaigns in.

That's just how American politics works, my friend. KEEP AT THIS.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. All your examples are CANDIDATES, not wives. And your examples went to ISSUES.

Bush at the checkout in 92 showed that he was completely out of touch with real people. Copy-paste not so much.

Just like the candidate Kerry's supposed elitism.

Dukakis in tank was used to target his policies on the military.

Musky's tear was used to attack supposed weakness of the candidate, just like Boehner's tears.

[Drunken Irishman]

14. And this will be used to target how Trump is a fraud.

Sorry, but this is a big deal. The one thing we can do is steal any positive momentum out of the RNC Convention by having a complete cycle about Donald's fuck up. It just furthers the notion that A) Trump's campaign is a joke and B) it's a fraud.

[SticksnStones]

16. The bigger issue now is how will he handle it?

How will Trump - the man who wants to lead this country through what he calls crisis times - how will he navigate through this event.

That is entirely relevant to this competition.

[woolldog]

9. The copypasta is more important

Trumps wall is old news , baked into his poll numbers already

[L. Coyote]

13. You are right, but this is the moment's news and it is another negative for this convention.

It will be old news tomorrow.

What I found more startling is that God created America and God sent Trump. My salmon fishing hip waders weren't enough today, bullshit soooo deep. Are American voters really that stupid?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. I was wrong. The speech issue went viral and then some. Then it grew legs. . . nt