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In order
to win an election, one has to take the wind out of
his/her opponent's sales. Take charge of and
re-define everything your opponent says or does. When they make a
claim, challenge them to prove it. Challenge
any and all false or questionable claims. Offer other
possibilities. Define the
language. Set the playing field.
Take Charge. Control the controversy. Go
where he or she does not want to go.
When they
get ridiculous , stop and point it out their absurdity, give an
analogy back using their same metaphor, make it more absurd than
they are, and then call for clean campaigning
Whatever
the opponent throws your way, turn it around and use it against
him. Use the martial arts concept. In
essence this concepts says, do not resist the opponent.
Instead pull his energy toward you, step aside and allow the
energy to pass you, then swirl that energy around and
apply it to knocking the opponent off
balance.
The
Lipstick Example:
Lipstick
Example
I really don't want this election to be a contest of
who can be the most absurd, but the McCain camp insist on using
George Bush and Karl Rove campaigning.² This leaves me no
choice but to take a moment an stoop to their level.
If I don't they will simply do the same thing again and again
and again. So here is what I hope is a one time dip
into the Republican manure pile.
When John McCain offered to have his wife enter a topless beauty
contest titled after buffalo manure, we chose to ignore that bit
of his mental failure. We felt it best simply to let
that pass. He's 72-years-old and perhaps his mind is
slipping, but one slip is no big deal, unless, of course
your the President of the United Sates and you are making that slip is part of a major domestic or
foreign policy decision.
But
then, when he couldn't remember how many houses
he owned, we started to get a bit concerned, but we decided let that pass, too.
And now we
find that apparently he can no longer understand a long-used,
political metaphor about covering something with lipstick and
then pretending that it's something that it's not.
He even used the metaphor himself, and now he can't remember what
it means.
Something
is definitely wrong here. We have several critically
important issues to discuss -- issues like how are the American
citizens going to survive the Bush-McCain created Economic
disaster they find ourselves in. Millions of
American are losing their homes because of Republican financial
mismanagement and McCain wants to focus this election on
lipstick and pigs. Something is more than simply wrong. It's
a potential disaster.
Let's
couch this pig stuff in different words. "A rose by another name smells just as
sweet." By the way, in case he can't remember, that
quote is form William Shakespeare. Let's take the
opposite side of that metaphor and say, "A skunk by another name
still stinks."
And
as long as Senator McCain insists on talking about somebody pretending
to be something they are not, let me remind him that he
is still a clone of George Bush, no matter what brush he uses to
paint himself.
And now if
Senator McCain is ready to end this ridiculous mud slinging, we
like to get to some really important issues. Let's
talk about Senator McCain's proposal
to make the Republican tax cuts for the super-wealthy permanent. .
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When the
McCain spin doctors accuse the Democrats of dirty campaigning, respond to that immediately!
See the section below: In a Debate, Who
Sets the Ethical Level?
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major, peaceful redistribution of wealth,
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