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You have to give credit where credit is due and when you have a winning formula, style, methodology, whatever you do not change it until your opponent proves it is no longer effective and makes you change it...For you that watch basketball it's akin to a team scoring at will against their opponent because their opponent can't stop the pick and roll... That's why Team USA won Gold in 08 but was denied in 04 and 00...They couldn't stop the pick and roll but learned to stop it in 08...It's like a football team that can't stop the run...Their opponent runs the ball the entire game, controls the clock, and wins...
Since 1988 , the GOP(Gawd, I really dislike those smug bastards) have declared a war on our candidates, our values, and us, declaring us out of the mainstream; Dukakis was the hirsute guy who opposed the Pledge Of Allegiance and lacked the stuff to kill the guy who raped and murdered his wife, Clinton was the tomcat with the feminist wife who wanted to emancipate our children and let them sue their parents, Al Gore was the guy who grew up in a Washington DC hotel and invented the internet, discovered Love Canal, and was with his wife the subjects of Love Story, John Kerry was the French guy with the haughty wife who didn't know the appropriate toppings with his cheesesteak...
I had the temerity to turn on the GOP convention last night, and they were at it again, trying to turn Barack Obama into something alien and unrecognizable...
Did I tell you I dislike those bastards?
It seems the only time they were unsuccessful was with Bubba...My conclusion is that folks who consider themselves "cosmopolitan" and "urbane" will vote for someone they think is "rural" but folks who think of themselves as "rural" have a lot harder time voting for someone they think is "cosmpolitan" or "urbane"...It seems you can convince a plurality or majority of Americans that Candidate X is an elitist who thinks he's better than you and nothing turns off a voter more than that...
God help us if it works again...
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