Reply #15: This Game Film MUST be shown to **every** Democrat.

[Stinky The Clown]

Van Taylor clearly didn't do so well in the RW's candidate school. I'm surpirzed they even allowed him to run. Hacket **destroyed** him.

Here's the two essential strategic pearls in that clip.

1 - Taylor lost the whole debate in the first 10 seconds. Tweety asked him a question and Taylor went right for the talking point. Tweety interrupted him and re-asked the question. Any halfway skilled teevee yakker would have just kept going, right over Tweety. (Answer the question you want to, not the question that's asked.) Most Repubs know this and do it skillfully. Most dems simply don't.

2 - Come to the fight armed to the teeth. Hackett knew who he was debating, in particular all his weaknesses. And he keep poking the knife into those weak spots. Over and over and over. With outrage. With derision. With mocking laughter (skillfully shown by biting it before it turned to a guffaw, late in the clip). Hackett also kept interrupting when he wanted to and threw the appropriate punches.

That was a gun fight and Taylor came with a pea shooter.

This film clip NEEDS to be seen by EVERY Dem candidate.