O goody goody goody goody goody -

It worked so goddamn well in Mississippi.

ROFLMAO!

Those old farts in the GOP are so clueless.

If it continues to work for them as it did last night in Mississippi, then let them bring it on.

Seriously, they pulled ads with Obama, Wright, bitter, everything, and the got trounced.

BTW, the supers had better be paying attention. If the Wright controversy doesn't play in Mississippi, of all places, then it is a total dud.

"But Cole is undaunted by yesterday's results, calling the anti-Obama strategy a "useful tool"

Dude, Cole, I think you are the "useful tool."

Go ahead, tie the downticket dems to Obama, tie him to the smartest most charismatic Democrat around, you'll just be doing thier jobs for them.

Republicans are so F'n stupid.

Obama announces big endorsement @ 7pm.

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/obama_campaign_touts_big_endor.php

My bet it's either John Edwards or Sen. Jim Webb.

It's not exactly a stupid stratagem. It's kind of two-for-the-price-of-one attack. They get to smear local Democrats, and hit Obama at the same time. And it has a silver lining for Obama. As he goes increasingly negative he will be able to brand his negativity as an unfortunate but necessary response to their negativity. It's kind of a "he started it" approach like the one we all used as children. It's bogus of course, but don't knock it. It was pretty successful against Hillary.

Well ... to be fair, what else have they got? The economy? Iraq? Ethical and effective government? In the "marketplace of ideas," they're selling melted turd-Popsicles.

Yup, Stay the Course. That's what Dubya taught them.

Actually, the GOP wingnutz don't realize that they're making Obama more familiar with the electorate, one of his supposed weaknesses spread around by the punditry.

Obama really needs to watch the arrogance. From MSNBC:

Obama gloated a bit on the campaign trail in Michigan Wednesday. “Look, they (the Republicans) just lost yesterday in the heart of Mississippi…. this is a hardcore Republican seat. And they lost it by eight points."

The Republicans, he said, "did everything they could, you know they ran ads with my face on it, and they said, 'look at this former liberal,' his former pastor said offensive things, I mean they were trying to do every trick in the book to try to scare folks in Mississippi. And it didn't work.”

In turn, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee distributed one flier accusing Republican Davis of links to the Ku Klux Klan, which he heatedly denied.

Super delegate Mike Morgan from O.K. JUST Endorsed!

THIS IS GREAT NEWS FOR BARACK!!

"NRCC chair Tom Cole confirmed that the party will continue using Obama to tar Dem House candidates, in much the way the GOP has historically used figures like Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi to do the same."

To "tar" Dem House candidates? They didn't really use that word, did they?

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...we can't get fooled again...

Well, if this Repug "strategy" fails, there's always the "Diebold Gambit." Are we any closer to paper trails for electronic voting? My sense is that we're not.

Note to GOP: quite a few people actually like Obama, including moderates.

The GOPpers will take every opportunity to link Obama to Democratic candidates for local office. Their tactic is the race card. The GOPpers have played the race card for the last 40 years and have world-class experience in developing code-words and code-images that mask racial bigotry.

Obama's face is a black face and linking the local Democratic candidate (as in Mississippi) to a black face is merely an appeal to race. The TV spots won't (and don't) rely on the name Obama. They rely on the picture of the black face presented as a backdrop for outrageously false or perjorative statements. (Obama is a Muslim; Obama supports Hamas; the local candidate is a Liberal.) The presentation of the image of a black man in a culture tolerant of racism is the equivalent of presenting an image of hooded clansmen burning a cross to an audience that finds racism abhorent.

I hope that all the voters that are susceptible to these tactics (the ones that believed the swift boat lies) are, uh, deceased(?) and the Millennial voters are taking charge of this campaign. God bless all you younger voters. Did you hear the WV voters that were interviewed? OMG please do something about this gene pool we have here in the U.S.!!!

Well, if the Republicans can see their way clear to continue using Obama to bash down-ticket Dems, the very least I can do is give up golf!

Too true Tina....hell if this is how they intend to help down tickets maybe I should send them a contribution.

Naaaah

Abandoning tried and true tactics just because they don't actually work is a wussy Democratic strategy. All those "facts" and "poll numbers" and "election results" are for wimps.

Republicans don't fall for that! King George doesn't change his strategies in the face colossal failure and neither do his minions!

It's hilarious to watch the Republicans press on with this strategy against all reason. I would be tickled pink to see them lose 30 seats in November.

Tom Cole has to be one of the most inept people in America, I'm surprised he didn't get tapped to run FEMA. In addition, he looks like what would happen if Tom Tancredo gained 100 pounds.

This is the best news of the day. As Ben Franklin would say....
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

True insanity....doing the same thing over and over and NOT expecting different results, and doing it anyway.

From "Head of State"

http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/05/change-that-you-deserve.html


Wednesday, May 14, 2008

The Change That You Deserve

From the Chicago Tribune:

The slogan unveiled this week by House Republicans - "Change you deserve" - is already a trademark used by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals to market its antidepressant Effexor XR.

Black Screen.

Fade into:

Scene of a thin grey haired man standing in a green field. Behind him we can see the sun is rising.

"I got the change I deserved with GOP."

Cut to a small child, in a sun dress, who looks up at him and smiles.

"I was tired, listless. I had lost interest in my usual activities--creating false attacks, acting as if I had been unfairly attacked about issues created out of whole cloth, drawing specious historical parallels, fawning over ideologically bankrupt manufactured father figures. Sure, I sent emails claiming that Obama was a Muslim, but somehow...it had lost the spark, the enjoyment of everyday life."

Cut to a child who rides by on a bicycle, and throws a newspaper on the front porch.

"That's when I found GOP."

Cut to man rowing in a scull across a still river. He turns to the camera, smiles.

"In clinical studies, GOP has been found to increase aggressiveness in the absence of actual provocation in 8 out of 10 users. In most users, the desire to gleefully attack returns in 1 week. Full enthusiasm for invented ideas in two. "

Cut to image of porch swing.

"With GOP, my attention to minor distractions fully returned, until I was again building them into major accusations of flawed character. Once again, my intense focus on pins, buttons, sentences fragments and remote relationships as absolute indications of personal virtue and ability was at its peak. For an entire weekend, I could one again choose the right moment to accuse a candidate of treason without cause--when I was ready, when the time felt right".

Cut to a series of blurred images: long, stringy haired teens in torn jeans and ironic 80's t-shirts lounging by the Washington Monument; picture of John Kerry in a Swift Boat during Vietnam;
Eiffel Tower. Arugula on plate. During these images, rapid voiceover in female voice:

"GOP may cause monosyllabism, inability to consider two differing concepts at the same time, memory loss or inaccurate recall of recently and repeatedly presented intelligence information, focus on size of automobiles or koro, sequential nicknaming, hooting."

Cut back to man standing in field. American flag waving in the distance behind him, below a risen sun. A woman walks up beside him, puts her arm around him, and smiles.

Man:

"So get the change that you deserve. Talk to your Doctor about GOP. Soon, you'll be walking by the homeless on the street again and saying "Let them get a job!"

Or better yet--let them get GOP."

Woman smiles.

Fade.

Cite:

Head of State

http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/05/change-that-you-deserve.html

Here another GOP racist plays the "tar baby" race card. The party of Macaca fame has a brand problem and they can't figure it out. How blind of them.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/14/gop-rep-uses-term-tar-bab_n_101793.html