charlabob
This note is strictly for dems. Repubs, please ignore :-)
IF we persist in thinking silly names and other snark are beneath us we will lose. It’s really that simple.
The only time I ever got on national talk radio, I had a wonderful time talking with David Binder — who thought we shouldn’t “stoop” to something or other.
We played wonderful, intellectual, tennis — but, bottom line, is if we chastise each other for McSame, McShane, the cootster, we will lose.
Faux news tried desperately to play the “snarky political humor game”. They failed, not because they were political or snarky — because they left off the humor part. (Bet you never knew the show was on, did you? That’s part of why they failed.)
Every time I read something that says, “Look out — the Repugs will do anything — they will be mean — get used to it — you aren’t tough enough,” I am sad beyond belief because it means we don’t get it. All of that is true and we have to make sure that the Republican candidates, at every level, know the same thing will happen to them.
In polls, people claim they don’t like the meanness, backbiting, and negative ads. But they respond to them. They also say they aren’t racists or sexist and that they’ll vote for a black man or a woman. We’ll see.
The good news is, over the past twenty years, people have learned the right answers…what they’re supposed to say. Maybe in the next twenty they’ll start to believe them.