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speaking for myself, pan, it's simpler than that:
the strategy of the mc-cain campaign appears to be ultra-rove---say anything anything at all, true or not, in adverts, and see what sticks. flood the airwaves with bullshit and see what sticks. that's it. that's all the campaign has.
the responses here have not been as you characterize them, pan: the division is between those who see this as the republican campaign strategy and those who see it as posing questions worth debating.
when you pile up the thread titles that have been put up since the rnc about palin, you omit the fact that the campaign strategy became clear about about the same time, that there has been something of a collective learning curve about that strategy, etc.
but hey, why think about that when it's so much easier for a new conservative to opt for one of the central (apparent) motivations behind the drift right, which is the sense of being-victimized?
it's kinda funny to see though: this strategy is putting more conservative folk in an awkward position--if they defend the strategy, the make concessions about the integrity of the infotainment that is its content and so begin to loose ground to those who reject the strategy---if they act like there is no strategy, they cannot defend their candidate's campaign at all without appearing to be as---um----television-faithful as the campaign assumes conservatives to be.
so i wonder how representative your position is of conservative-types at this point---unable to admit to yourself why you dislike obama, desparately searching for a rationale, finding the republican personality-infotainment campaign more promising than thinking about issues as a means toward that end, you decide to put aside the nature of the m-p campaign and act as though all this horseshit--the adverts, the memes---were adequate as a basis for making a political decision.
all this because i don't think you want to say what really bothers you about obama.
and i'm not sure what that is, either.
but whatever it is, this sure seems a long way around.
i wonder how big the segment of the television audience is in this position.
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