tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post3529479266606368994..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-45877821663174777982012-02-21T09:27:52.344-05:002012-02-21T09:27:52.344-05:00More importantly, no matter what margin Obama wins...More importantly, no matter what margin Obama wins by, it won't be acknowledged as a landslide, mandate, o r evidence that people prefer moderate centrist Dem policy to extremist GOP lunacy. Only republicans win mandates, even when they don't even actually win.Cerealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13091416350211267991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-20778273787845017412012-02-21T05:06:19.931-05:002012-02-21T05:06:19.931-05:00And probably most importantly:
4. Eight months is...And probably most importantly:<br /><br />4. Eight months is a pretty damn long time in politics, a lot can happen between then and now, and Obama quite literally has not yet begun his campaign. About this time in 2008, many were thinking that Iraq and the surge would be the defining issue of the 2008 campaign. And as it happened, the deep crazies took over the McCain campaign and started hollering about how much of a radical Islamic socialist Obama was. People took one look at that, and then looked at Obama during the debates, and saw who was serious about getting things done for people. And not to say that the same thing is going to happen this time, but <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/02/ooops_8.php" rel="nofollow">it sure doesn't look like they can help themselves</a>.ploeghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10248826561069733693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-91523525078573750152012-02-21T01:34:09.244-05:002012-02-21T01:34:09.244-05:001. The main thing, first, foremost, and always is ...1. The main thing, first, foremost, and always is to Run Up The Score. If you're behind, get ahead. If you're ahead, get margin. If you got margin, then crush your enemies, see them driven before you, hear the lamentation of the women, etc. etc. 'Cause that's the only way you're going to get More and Better Democrats in Congress. Full stop.<br />2. So don't give Obama credit for knowing the rules of the game or for playing things smart. Perhaps you have a point about that. Sure seems, though, like Obama has a unique talent for attracting the biggest head-up-their-collective-asses buffoons as opponents, though. And to any impartial observer (that is to say, the people who will be deciding this election), Obama makes them look like the buffoons they are.<br />3. Rove, in fact, isn't that smart. In 2000, he sent the campaign into CA and lost FL because of it. In 2004, he came within an ace of losing OH and the election, despite the electoral shenanigans. Giving the man his due, he got his man into the White House, but if he were such a super genius, he would have done it much more cleanly.ploeghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10248826561069733693noreply@blogger.com