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Politics : Sarah Palin For President 2012 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MrLucky who wrote (20)	9/21/2008 6:41:33 AM
From: goldworldnet	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1832

Sowing, reaping and politics Posted by: McQ on Thursday, September 11, 2008 Clive Crook analyzes the Democratic reaction to the "pigs and lipstick" flap and points out: When they rage at unfair Republican tactics, part of that fury unavoidably spills over into anger at the electorate for being so gullible as to fall for it. Far better to rise above this sort of stuff, and radiate confidence that the electorate will see through it. If Obama gets angry at the electorate, or can even be plausibly accused of it, he is finished. I don't think Obama will get "angry at the electorate", or at least not any time soon. But Crook has a point which Democrats love to deny - with the anger comes condescension. It is the condescension which comes through loud and clear when they feel the electorate is rejecting them and their message. They're stupid. Their gullible. They vote against their own best interests. Blah, blah, blah ... As if to demonstrate the point for everyone, TH comments at The Atlantic site on Crooks advice: Why not be angry at the electorate? 90% of the electorate is comprised of complete and utter idiots. That's the only way this election is so close right now and the only reason McCain wasn't laughed off the stage when he introduced Sarah Palin as his VP choice. Accuse me of "liberal condescension" if you wish. And I know serious journalists need to maintain the appearance of balance. But this is absolutely absurd. McCain's sex ed advert is worse. Republicans get elected by lying, plain and simple, and they do it because they know it works. So I'd counter the thesis behind your op-ed the other day. The reason Republicans win elections and Democrats lose them isn't because Democrats don't have enough respect for regular folk or are condescending toward them. Democrats lose elections because they give regular Americans far too much credit. Republicans know how to pull the strings and they do it very well. Naturally, it couldn't be their message or their methods, could it? Of course not - it's those nasty Republicans who've called Sarah Palin everything but a child of God and by doing that so angered a portion of the electorate that when the lipstick and pig kerfuffle happened they were unwilling to believe the offered Obama explanation. Gullible damn herd. I'm beginning to believe the Democrats think politics would be a world of fun if they didn't have to bother convincing voters to vote for them. Kind of like the radical environmentalist's perfect world - no humans. qando.net * * *