Reply #50: Strategy

[msmcghee]

This thread really has me going. Please excuse this rambling follow-up to post 40 above.

Symbolic message management.

I think that's what Clinton was doing with his "third way" approach. Not many (especially sheeple) had any idea what "third-way" meant but it was memorable in that it implied a better way - beyond partisan politics - to solve our problems. Two words - easily remembered - packed with symbolism.

That was genius. He took the bitter partisanship that the pukes were spewing and turned it back against them. Not by calling them names or whining that they were destroying our democratic process - but by understanding that almost everyone in America (even pukes) knew this was happening and were at least a little worried about it.

He took an emotion that already existed in the minds of all Americans and attached his political message to it - and rode that connection to two terms - right in the face of the most outrageous -over-the-line relentless attacks by the pukes. That message resonated with the sheeple and is one reason the pukes couldn't remove him from office. What made it genius is that the more enraged and partisan the pukes became - the more sensible a "third way" seemed to "feel" to the sheeple.

Now look at what Rove is doing. He's taken the image of Saddam Hussein standing on a balcony and firing his shotgun into the air, the image of the WTC towers spewing flame and collapsing while killing 3000 innocent Americans. Those are so-powerful images. He's attached his political message to them and is attempting to ride those images to his second term.

But it seems lately that they have made some monumental blunders - that might result in Bush's* defeat in 2004. But Rove still has many cards to play. Does anyone believe that the sheeple will remember these (inside politics) mistakes when Bush* miraculously finds Saddam or Osama 30 days before the election?

They didn't remember Clinton's "don't ask - don't tell" or his and Hillary's health care debacle.