Oh, Democrats... Part 2

[prisoner_24601]

You're still killing me. There seems to be three more simple ideas that you fail to grasp:

1. Sarah Palin isn't the one running for President, so stop wasting time and resources on her. Every time you go through the minutia about what may or may not have happened with "troopergate," "bridge to nowhere," or whatever, I start banging my head against my desk. She's like Teflon. Even if everything you're ranting about is actually true, none of it's going to stick. You already lost your credibility when it comes to her with the stupid ass attacks on her family so even if you have anything legitimate to say (which you probably do), people have tuned you out. The more Democrats and the media attack her, the more people like her.

Besides why focus on her when you have John McCain who was one of the Keating Five to rake over the coals? The dude should have gone to prison over that and probably would have if he wasn't a war hero. And now he's running as fighting corruption and bringing reform to Washington and none of you bring this up? WTF? Stop with the stupid cracks about lipstick, the bullshit about her qualifications and all the other stuff and focus on the guy that's actually on the top of the ticket.

2. The attitude of "OMG rednecks, why don't you know that we're best for you, you stupid assholes? Vote for us now, plz!" is going to alienate more people than it will win over. This kind of condescension and class warfare is why you lost the last election.

3. Hollywood stars ranting and raving on your behalf only reinforces the idea that Hollywood/blue states/liberal media/Washington are out of touch. Explain to them that they are not helping and put a freaking muzzle on them.

Stop dicking around. You're missing the forest for the trees and it's painful to watch.

Comments

[prisoner--24601.livejournal.com]

True, but I think most of the Democrats that were a part of it are out of office. I dunno, I would have thought that Obama, who is supposed to be an agent of change, would jump at the chance to call out McCain on this. Even if he does have to yell at his own party, that would just give him more creditability as an agent of change.

[xenzen.livejournal.com]

I'd think it would give McCain more leverage than it would Obama. McCain would go, "Oh, I learned my lesson, but hey, at least it weren't us reformist Republicans what got their butts put in the fire -- oh, no, it were them naughty Democrats! You can't trust them!"

The Democrats need something much more juicy than that, like maybe McCain screwed the pooch literally, and there are videos to prove it!

[prisoner--24601.livejournal.com]

Heh, you're probably right in that it would give McCain the chance to show how he's a changed man... or something. But hell, that's got to be better than pissing off a huge chunk of the electorate with ads about old people and lack of e-mail skillz.

[nivenus.livejournal.com]

Actually, I thought that was true (that old people don't generally know how to use email) but it's actually not. For his demographic McCain is actually highly unusual (or so I've read). Of course, that's including the fact that he's a male and white.

Also, I thought it was unimportant until someone pointed out to me the fact that the internet is likely to be a subject for many, many laws over the next several decades. It'd be nice if the next president was more informed about the medium than our last president. McCain, however, is less educated about the internet than Bush who at least knows how to use "the google."

I'm not saying it isn't kind of a weak attack. But it's actually more relevant than I initially thought it was.

[prisoner--24601.livejournal.com]

From what I understand, he does use the internet but he doesn't email because of some damage to his body that he got while a POW. Which he mentioned in an interview with the Boston Globe in 2000 (http://graphics.boston.com/news/politics/campaign2000/news/McCain_character_loyal_to_a_fault+.shtml) as well as a Forbes article from the same year (http://www.forbes.com/asap/2000/0529/053_print.html) where he says:

In certain ways, McCain was a natural Web candidate. Chairman of the Senate Telecommunications Subcommittee and regarded as the U.S. Senate’s savviest technologist, McCain is an inveterate devotee of email. His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy. The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type. Instead, he dictates responses that his wife types on a laptop. “She’s a whiz on the keyboard, and I’m so laborious,” McCain admits.

Honestly, that's just tacky (or at the very least really bad research) on the Obama campaign's part. Plus the fact that there are a lot of older people who don't use the internet, but that might get offended by that add. Pissing off a voting block by making cracks about age just doesn't make much strategic sense to me.

[nivenus.livejournal.com]

If that's the case than it certainly is a low-blow (I wouldn't be too surprised - I know he can't raise his arms above his head), though it still seems slightly lame to me (I mean - they do have programs that take voice instead of keyboard). I'd have to do a fact check.

And you're right about pissing off a demographic. However, having seen the ad, I don't remember it specifically attacking McCain because of his age.

In good news: Obama apparently does have something to attack McCain with. Karl Rove said McCain's attacks were too "dishonest."

[prisoner--24601.livejournal.com]

In good news: Obama apparently does have something to attack McCain with. Karl Rove said McCain's attacks were too "dishonest."

Heh, I got a big kick out of that. You know the end times are coming when Democrats and Karl Rove are on the same side.